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The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect is analyzed for photons in a modified Mach-Zehnder setup with two particles experiencing different gravitational potentials, which are later recombined using a beam-splitter. It is found that the HOM effect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-29 Marco Rivera-Tapia , Marcel I. Yáñez Reyes , A. Delgado , G. Rubilar

The Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer is a foundational tool in quantum optics, with both fundamental and practical significance. Earlier works identified that input-state symmetry under exchange of the two spatial modes is fundamental in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Éloi Descamps , Arne Keller , Pérola Milman

In this work we demonstrate spectral-temporal correlation measurements of the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference effect with the use of a spectrometer based on a photon-counting camera. This setup allows us to take, within seconds, spectral…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-23 Yingwen Zhang , Duncan England , Andrei Nomerotski , Benjamin Sussman

In the original formulation of the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) experiment, when two otherwise indistinguishable photons are incident upon the two input ports of a balanced beam splitter, they coalesce, always leaving via the same output port. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Felix Mann , Helen M. Chrzanowski , Marlon Placke , Felipe Gewers , Sven Ramelow

Over the last several decades, quantum entanglement has been intensively studied for potential applications in quantum information science. The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) dip is the most important test tool for direct proof of entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Byoung S. Ham

Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference of multi-mode frequency entangled states plays a crucial role in quantum metrology. However, as the number of modes increases, the HOM interference pattern becomes increasingly complex, making it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Yan Guo , Zi-Xiang Yang , Zi-Qi Zeng , Chunling Ding , Ryosuke Shimizu , Rui-Bo Jin

We propose a quantum plasmonic sensor using Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interferometry that measures the refractive index of an analyte, embedded in a plasmonic beam splitter composed of a dual-Kretschmann configuration, which serves as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Seungjin Yoon , Yu Sung Choi , Mark Tame , Jae Woong Yoon , Sergey V. Polyakov , Changhyoup Lee

A modification of the standard Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer is proposed which allows one to replicate the celebrated coincidence dip in the case of two-independent delay parameters. In the ideal case where such delays are sufficiently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 Yu Yang , Luping Xu , Vittorio Giovannetti

Two-photon interference (TPI) is a fundamental phenomenon in quantum optics and plays a crucial role in quantum information science and technology. TPI is commonly considered as quantum interference with an upper bound of $100\%$ for both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Manman Wang , Yanfeng Li , Hanqing Liu , Haiqiao Ni , Zhichuan Niu , Xiaogang Wei , Renfu Yang , Chengyong Hu

We propose a classical optical interferometry scheme that reproduces dispersion-insensitive Hong-Ou-Mandel interferograms. The interferometric scheme is derived from a systematic method based on the time-reversal symmetry of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-06 Kazuhisa Ogawa , Shuhei Tamate , Toshihiro Nakanishi , Hirokazu Kobayashi , Masao Kitano

When two indistinguishable bosons interfere at a beam splitter, they both exit through the same output port. This foundational quantum-mechanical phenomenon, known as the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect, has become a cornerstone in the field of…

We provide a tool for measuring the Stokes parameters and the degree of polarization of single photons by employing second order interference, namely the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interferometer. It is shown that the technique is able to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Guilherme P. Temporão , Pedro Ripper , Thiago B. Guerreiro , Gustavo C. do Amaral

Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interferometry has emerged as a valuable tool for quantum sensing applications, particularly in measuring physical parameters that influence the relative optical delay between pair photons. Unlike classical techniques,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Sandeep Singh , Vimlesh Kumar , G. K. Samanta

Two-photon anticorrelation is observed when laser and pseudothermal light beams are incident to the two input ports of a Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer, respectively. The spatial second-order interference pattern of laser and pseudothermal…

Optics · Physics 2014-04-01 Jianbin Liu , Yu Zhou , Fu-Li Li , Zhuo Xu

Quantum sensing based on two-photon interferometry manifests quantum superiority beyond the classical precision limit. However, this superiority is usually diminished inevitably by the noise. Here, we analyze the sensitivity of two typical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Teng-fei Yan , Zhuo-zhuo Wang , Qi-qi Li , Peng-long Wang , Rui-Bo Jin , Bai-hong Li

Extending Hong--Ou--Mandel (HOM) interferometry to the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) promises direct access to anyonic statistics, yet remains challenging: on-demand anyon injection is hindered by integer-charged minimal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Aleksander Latyshev , Imen Taktak , Ipsita Mandal , Ines Safi

Photonic interference is a key quantum resource for optical quantum computation, and in particular for so-called boson sampling machines. In interferometers with certain symmetries, genuine multiphoton quantum interference effectively…

Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference is a compelling quantum phenomenon that demonstrates the nonclassical nature of single photons. In this study, we investigate an electromagnetically induced transparency-based double-$\Lambda$ four-wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Zi-Yu Liu , Jiun-Shiuan Shiu , Chin-Yao Cheng , Yong-Fan Chen

We propose and experimentally demonstrate two-photon interference effects in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer in which two different kinds of two-photon states are prepared by introducing a time delay between the two input photons. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-16 Heonoh Kim , Sang Min Lee , Han Seb Moon

Two-photon interference, known as the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect, has colossal implications for quantum technology. It was observed in 1987 with two photodetectors monitoring outputs of the beamsplitter illuminated by photon pairs: the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Anton N. Vetlugin , Ruixiang Guo , Cesare Soci , Nikolay I. Zheludev