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If the two beam components are made to interfere, the constituent photons will do so as well, meaning sometimes these photons would have to annihilate one another, and other times they would have to produce four photons.

The behavior of these photons represents the constructive and destructive interference resulting from the wave behavior of matter, where crests and troughs cancel out, and crests meeting crests combine.