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A bipartite multiphoton entangled state is created through stimulated parametric down-conversion of strong laser pulses in a nonlinear crystal. It is shown how detectors that do not resolve photon number can be used to analyze such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. S. Eisenberg , G. Khoury , G. A. Durkin , C. Simon , D. Bouwmeester

Photon-pair correlations in spontaneous parametric down conversion are ubiquitous in quantum photonics. The ability to engineer their properties for optimising a specific task is essential, but often challenging in practice. We demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Chloé Vernière , Hugo Defienne

We present a statistical model of non-interacting individual classical particles that may lead to a microscopic implementation of quantum mechanics. The model requires the action of a special type of detector that detects and records…

General Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Ioannis Contopoulos

One of the central principles of quantum mechanics is that if there are multiple paths that lead to the same event, and there is no way to distinguish between them, interference occurs. It is usually assumed that distinguishing information…

Building upon the recently introduced particle interpretation of the double-slit experiment [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 133603 (2025)] which attributes interference phenomena to detector-coupled (bright) and detector-uncoupled (dark) states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Jian-Jian Cheng , Jun-Ling Che , Lin Zhang , Ming-Liang Hu

Multi-photon interference is at the heart of photonic quantum technologies. Arrays of integrated cavities can support bright sources of single-photons with high purity and small footprint, but the inevitable spectral distinguishability…

Photonic quantum technology provides a viable route to quantum communication, quantum simulation, and quantum information processing. Recent progress has seen the realisation of boson sampling using 20 single-photons and quantum key…

Photons are the ideal carriers of quantum information for communication. Each photon can have a single qubit or even multiple qubits encoded in its internal quantum state, as defined by optical degrees of freedom such as polarization,…

Distinguishability theory is developed for quantum interference of the squeezed vacuum states on unitary linear interferometers. It is found that the entanglement of photon pairs over the Schmidt modes is one of the sources of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 Valery Shchesnovich

We demonstrate optical interferometry beyond the limits imposed by the photon wavelength using 'triggered' entangled photon pairs from a semiconductor quantum dot. Interference fringes of the entangled biphoton state reveals a periodicity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-28 R. M. Stevenson , A. J. Hudson , R. J. Young , P. Atkinson , K. Cooper , D. A. Ritchie , A. J. Shields

The interference of quanta lies at the heart of quantum physics. The multipartite generalization of single-quanta interference creates entanglement, the coherent superposition of states shared by several quanta. Entanglement allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Kaiyi Qian , Kai Wang , Leizhen Chen , Zhaohua Hou , Mario Krenn , Shining Zhu , Xiao-Song Ma

We demonstrate two-photon interference using two remote single molecules as bright solid-state sources of indistinguishable photons. By varying the transition frequency and spectral width of one molecule, we tune and explore the effect of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Lettow , Y. L. A. Rezus , A. Renn , G. Zumofen , E. Ikonen , S. Goetzinger , V. Sandoghdar

At the heart of recent breakthroughs in quantum imaging and spectroscopy utilizing undetected photons lies the quantum optical effect known as induced coherence without induced emission. This fundamental quantum interference effect has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Dong-Gil Im , Seung-Yeun Yoo , Chung-Hyun Lee , Jongheon Suh , Yoon-Ho Kim

In this work we experimentally demonstrate the quantum interference of force effect using pairs of entangled photons. Although photons are massless particles, they have linear momentum, and our experiments show that the quantum…

Entangled photons have the remarkable ability to be more sensitive to signal and less sensitive to noise than classical light. Joint photons can sample an object collectively, resulting in faster phase accumulation and higher spatial…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-04 Chien-Hung Lu , Matthew Reichert , Xiaohang Sun , Jason W. Fleischer

Photons are bosons, and yet, when prepared in specific entangled states, they can exhibit non-bosonic behaviour. While this phenomenon has so far been studied in two-photon systems, exchange symmetries and interference effects in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Shreya Kumar , Alex E Jones , Daniel Bhatti , Stefanie Barz

Photons have been a flagship system for studying quantum mechanics, advancing quantum information science, and developing quantum technologies. Quantum entanglement, teleportation, quantum key distribution and early quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-12 Sergei Slussarenko , Geoff J. Pryde

It has been claimed that ``the use of entangled photons in an imaging system can exhibit effects that cannot be mimicked by any other two-photon source, whatever strength of the correlations between the two photons'' [A. F. Abouraddy, B. E.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gunnar Bjork , Jonas Soderholm , Luis L. Sanchez-Soto

We obtained the phase and intensity images of an object by detecting classical light which never interacted with it. With a double passage of a pump and a signal laser beams through a nonlinear crystal, we observe interference between the…

We demonstrate one- and two-photon diffraction and interference experiments utilizing parametric down-converted photon pairs (biphotons) and a transmission grating. With two-photon detection, the biphoton exhibits a diffraction-interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ryosuke Shimizu , Keiichi Edamatsu , Tadashi Itoh