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The Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect (HBT) is described by numerical and analytical modeling, as well as experimentally, using sound waves and easily available instrumentation. An interesting phenomenon that has often been considered too…

Physics Education · Physics 2022-01-12 Arnt Inge Vistnes , Joakim Bergli

We present measurements of the second order spatial coherence function of thermal light sources using Hanbury-Brown and Twiss interferometry with a digital correlator. We demonstrate that intensity fluctuations between orthogonal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-21 Nolan Matthews , David Kieda , Stephan LeBohec

Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) correlations, i.e. correlations in far-field intensity fluctuations, yield fundamental information on the quantum statistics of light sources, as highlighted after the discovery of photon bunching. Drawing on…

Heisenberg uncertainty relation in quantum mechanics sets the limit on the measurement precision of non-commuting observables, which prevents us from measuring them accurately at the same time. In some applications, however, the information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Yuhong Liu , Jiamin Li , Liang Cui , Nan Huo , Syed M Assad , Xiaoying Li , Z. Y. Ou

Intensity interferometry removes the stringent requirements on mechanical precision and atmospheric corrections that plague all amplitude interferometry techniques at the cost of severely limited sensitivity. A new idea we recently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Aviv Ofir , Erez N. Ribak

I review recent applications of two-particle intensity interferometry in high energy physics, concentrating on relativistic heavy ion collisions. By measuring hadronic single-particle spectra and two-particle correlations in hadron-hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulrich Heinz

An important topic of interest in imaging is the construction of protocols that are not diffraction limited. This can be achieved in a variety of ways, including classical superresolution techniques or quantum entanglement-based protocols.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Mark E. Pearce , Thomas Mehringer , J. von Zanthier , Pieter Kok

An important tool in studying the sub-femtoscale spacetime structure of matter in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions is Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) intensity interferometry of identical particles in the final state of such collisions. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-11 James Daniel Brandenburg , Haowu Duan , Zhoudunming Tu , Raju Venugopalan , Zhangbu Xu

Astronomical intensity interferometry enables quantitative measurements of the source geometry by measuring the photon fluxes in individual telescopes and correlating them, rather than correlating the electromagnetic waves' amplitudes. This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-16 Andreas Zmija , Naomi Vogel , Gisela Anton , Dmitry Malyshev , Thilo Michel , Adrian Zink , Stefan Funk

An extension may be proposed to the intensity interferometer of Hanbury Brown and Twiss to provide the Fourier phase measurement by the use of third-order intensity correlations. It is well known that interferometric reconstruction of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-14 B. E. Zhilyaev

We analyze an intensity interferometry measurement carried out with two point-like detectors facing a distant source (e.g., a star) that may be partially occluded by an absorptive object (e.g., a planet). Such a measurement, based on the…

Optics · Physics 2013-11-26 Dmitry V. Strekalov , Baris I. Erkmen , Nan Yu

Many-body interference between indistinguishable particles can give rise to strong correlations rooted in quantum statistics. We study such Hanbury Brown-Twiss-type correlations for number states of ultracold massive fermions. Using…

Quantum-correlated interferometer is a newly emerging tool in quantum technology that offers classical-limit-breaking phase sensitivity. But to date, there exists a configurational bottleneck for its practicability due to the low…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Wei Du , Shuhe Wu , Dong Zhang , Jun Chen , Yiquan Yang , Peiyu Yang , Jinxian Guo , Guzhi Bao , Weiping Zhang

Various phase shifters and absorbers can be put into the arms of a double loop neutron interferometer. The mean intensity levels of the forward and diffracted beams behind an empty four plate interferometer of this type have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Suda , H. Rauch , M. Peev

Multi-boson symmetrization effects on two-particle Bose-Einstein interferometry are studied for ensembles with arbitrary multiplicity distributions. In the general case one finds interesting residual correlations which require a modified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulrich Heinz

Quantum correlation microscopy is an emerging technique for improving optical resolution. By taking advantage of the quantum statistics from single-photon fluorophores, more information about the emitters (including number and location) is…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-19 Jaret J. Vasquez-Lozano , Qiang Sun , Shuo Li , Andrew D. Greentree

Single photon emitters (SPEs) are often identified with a Hanbury Brown and Twiss intensity interferometer (HBTII) consisting of a 50:50 beamsplitter and two time-correlated single photon counters. For an SPE, the cross-correlation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Darien J. Morrow , Xuedan Ma

Engineering and studying few-electron states in ballistic conductors is a key step towards understanding entanglement in quantum electronic systems. In this Letter, we introduce the intrinsic two-electron coherence of an electronic source…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 E. Thibierge , D. Ferraro , B. Roussel , C. Cabart , A. Marguerite , G. Fève , P. Degiovanni

Quantum metrology deals with improving the resolution of instruments that are otherwise limited by shot noise and it is therefore a promising avenue for enabling scientific breakthroughs. The advantage can be even more striking when quantum…

We have realized a quantum optics like Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) experiment by partitioning, on an electronic beam-splitter, single elementary electronic excitations produced one by one by an on-demand emitter. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 E. Bocquillon , F. D. Parmentier , C. Grenier , J. -M. Berroir , P. Degiovanni , D. C. Glattli , B. Plaçais , A. Cavanna , Y. Jin , G. Fève