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We perform a nonlocal double-slit interference experiment with pseudothermal light. The experimental result exhibits a typical double-slit interference fringe in the intensity correlation measurement, in agreement with the theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lu Gao , Jun Xiong , Lu-Fang Lin , Wei Wang , Su-Heng Zhang , Kaige Wang

Many quantum sensing suggestions rely on temporal correlations found in photon pairs generated by parametric down-conversion. In this work, we show that the temporal correlations in light with a thermal photon statistics can be equally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Peng Kian Tan , Xi Jie Yeo , Alvin Zhen Wei Leow , Lijiong Shen , Christian Kurtsiefer

We elucidate the consequences of a phase-matching theory that describes second-harmonic generation of two non-collinear incident light beams that carry orbital angular momentum (OAM). More specifically, the two incident beams generate a…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-06 Thomas Roger , Julius J. F. Heitz , Ewan. M. Wright , Daniele Faccio

We present angular-resolved correlation measurements between photons after propagation through a three-dimensional disordered medium. The multiple scattering process induces photon correlations that are directly measured for light sources…

Optics · Physics 2011-06-30 Stephan Smolka , Otto L. Muskens , Ad Lagendijk , Peter Lodahl

Photosynthetic systems utilize adaptability to respond efficiently to fluctuations in their light environment. As a result, large photosynthetic yields can be achieved in conditions of low light intensity, while photoprotection mechanisms…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-01-16 Adriana M. De Mendoza , Felipe Caycedo-Soler , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

We develop a nonclassicality criterion for the interference of three delayed, but otherwise identical, light fields in a three-mode Bell interferometer. We do so by comparing the prediction of quantum mechanics with those of a classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-13 L. Rigovacca , W. S. Kolthammer , C. Di Franco , M. S. Kim

Fractional photon-assisted tunnelling is investigated both numerically and analytically in a double-well lattice. While integer photon-assisted tunnelling is a single-particle effect, fractional photon-assisted tunnelling is an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-02-02 Martin Esmann , Jonathan D. Pritchard , Christoph Weiss

The process in which a photon splits into three after the collision with a free electron (triple Compton effect) is the most basic process for the generation of a high-energy multi-particle entangled state composed out of elementary quanta.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-11 E. Lötstedt , U. D. Jentschura

In this Letter we propose a fundamental test for probing the thermal nature of the spectrum emitted by sonoluminescence. We show that two-photon correlations can in principle discriminate between real thermal light and the quasi-thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Francesco Belgiorno , Stefano Liberati , Matt Visser , Dennis Sciama

Electron microscopy based on high-energy electrons allows nanoscopic analytical imaging taking advantage of secondarily generated particles. Especially for cathodoluminescence, the correlation between primary incident electrons and emitted…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-28 Sotatsu Yanagimoto , Naoki Yamamoto , Tatsuro Yuge , Hikaru Saito , Keiichirou Akiba , Takumi Sannomiya

Research into the efficiency of photosynthetic light harvesting has focused on two factors: (1) entanglement of chromophores, and (2) environmental noise. While chromophores are conjugated $\pi$-bonding molecules with strongly correlated…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-03-29 David A. Mazziotti

Light from thermal black body radiators such as stars exhibits photon bunching behaviour at sufficiently short timescales. However, with available detector bandwidths, this bunching signal is difficult to be directly used for intensity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 Peng Kian Tan , Guang Hui Yeo , Hou Shun Poh , Aik Hui Chan , Christian Kurtsiefer

The photoelectric effect, explained by Einstein in 1905, is often regarded as a one-electron phenomenon. However, in multi-electron systems, the interaction of the escaping electron with other electrons, referred to as electron correlation,…

Mixing the fields generated by different light sources has emerged as a powerful approach for engineering non-Gaussian quantum states. Understanding and controlling the resulting photon statistics is useful for emerging quantum technologies…

We show that a thermal light random in transverse direction can perform subwavelength double slit interference in a joint-intensity measurement. This is the classical version of quantum lithography, and it can be explained with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kaige Wang , De-zhong Cao

We demonstrate the existence of new nonclassical correlations in the radiation of two atoms, which are coherently driven by a continuous laser source. The photon-photon-correlations of the fluorescence light show a spatial interferene…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-15 C. Skornia , J. von Zanthier , G. S. Agarwal , E. Werner , H. Walther

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

We propose a novel scheme to achieve two-photon super bunching of thermal light through multiple two-photon-path interference, in which two mutually first-order incoherent optical channels are introduced by inserting a modified Michelson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Peilong Hong , Jianbin Liu , Guoquan Zhang

Multi-photon processes are the essence of nonlinear optics. Optical harmonics generation and multi-photon absorption, ionization, polymerization or spectroscopy are widely used in practical applications. Generally, the rate of an n-photon…

We consider theoretically density-density correlation of identical Fermi system by including the finite resolution of a detector and delta-function term omitted in the ordinary method. We find an anomalous fermion bunching effect, which is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-19 Hongwei Xiong , Shujuan Liu