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Piotr Migdal
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No. Even though such claim is in Dirac's classical work it is not true.

See e.g. Hong-Ou-Mandel interference, when exactly two different photons interfere. For quotation of Paul Dirac, and some more analysis, see:

However, there is some truth in Dirac's claim - photon interferes only with it itself if you have only one detector to measure.

Piotr Migdal
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