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Not a physicist - how is it possible to only send 1 photon at a time? How is this ensured?



Literally dim the light source until the probability of two showing up within the time scale of the measurement is low enough. This is not impractical. For instance there are many kinds of detectors that can be set up to discriminate single photons or particles.




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