 Balanced beam splitter (source code)

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= Balanced beam splitter
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A lossless <beam splitter> that gives equal output <probabilities> for a photon incident in one input port. Balance constrains the magnitudes of the <probability amplitudes>; the <beam splitter scattering matrix> also specifies their relative <wave phases>.

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