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We discuss quantum and classical aspects of two-photon interference in light transmission through disordered media. We show that disorder is the main factor that suppresses the interference, whatever the quantum state of the incident light.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 Manutea Candé , Sergey E. Skipetrov

We present a general input-output formalism for the few-photon transport in multiple waveguide channels coupled to a local cavity. Using this formalism, we study the effect of Fano interference in two-photon quantum transport. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Shanshan Xu , Shanhui Fan

Different theoretical and experimental aspects of electromagnetic phenomena in media is reviewed. The 100 year old Minkowski theory is in agreement with most experiments, but has theoretical problems related to its implied validity in all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-10-13 Finn Ravndal

The purpose of this paper is to show that the composite photon theory measures up well against the Standard Model's elementary photon theory. This is done by comparing the two theories area by area. Although the predictions of quantum…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Walton A. Perkins

The delayed-choice quantum eraser has long been a subject of controversy, and has been looked at as being incomprehensible to having retro-causal effect in time. Here the delayed-choice quantum eraser is theoretically analyzed using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-28 Tabish Qureshi

Entanglement has long stood as one of the characteristic features of quantum mechanics, yet recent developments have emphasized the importance of quantumness beyond entanglement for quantum foundations and technologies. We demonstrate that…

Entanglement is a fundamental feature of quantum theory as well as a key resource for quantum computing and quantum communication, but the entanglement mechanism has not been found at present. We think when the two subsystems exist…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-21 Xiang-Yao Wu , Xiao-Jing Liu , Jing-Bin Lu , Tian-Shun Li , Si-Qi Zhang , Yu Liang , Ji Ma , Hong Li

The dual wave-particle nature of quantum objects is a notoriously unintuitive feature of quantum theories. However, it is often deemed essential, due to quantum objects exhibiting diffraction and interference. We extend the work of…

General Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Geoff Beck

We generalize the concept of a weak value of a quantum observable to cover arbitrary real positive operator measures. We show that the definition is operationally meaningful in the sense that it can be understood within the quantum theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Erkka Haapasalo , Pekka Lahti , Jussi Schultz

The ether can "explain" certain questionable "quantum realities" in which single, isolated photons form a diffraction pattern in a two-slit apparatus; and, similarly, single, isolated electrons form a diffraction pattern in the equivalent…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sid Deutsch

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

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 quantum mechanics, a long-standing question remains: How does a single photon traverse double slits? One intuitive picture suggests that the photon passes through only one slit, while its wavefunction splits into an ``empty" wave and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Jian-Peng Dou , Feng Lu , Hao Tang , Xiao-Wen Shang , Xian-Min Jin

We consider the possibility to measure the quantum decoherence using gravitational wave interferometers. Gravitational wave interferometers create the superposition state of photons and measure the interference of the photon state. If the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-08-15 Yasushi Mino

It is argued that the strong coupling version of recent experiment [Denkmayr et al., PRL 118, 010402 (2017)] while correctly estimating the pre-selected states of the neutrons does not perform strong measurements of weak values as claimed.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Lev Vaidman

The concept of wave-particle duality, which is a key element of quantum theory, has been remarkably found to manifest itself in several experimental realizations as in the famous double-slit experiment. In this specific case, a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-09 Bertúlio de Lima Bernardo , Askery Canabarro , Sérgio Azevedo

The preceding BCA (Stamper-Kurn et. al., arXiv:1607.01454) asserts that our observation of interference contrast in a half-metre-scale atom interferometer (Kovachy et. al., Nature 528, 530-3 (2015)) does not prove the existence of…

The "anomalous" values of C. Ferrie and J. Combes in Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 120404 (2014) say nothing about quantum - or even classical - physics. They are not analogues of the weak values that emerge when we describe the quantum world via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-03 Yakir Aharonov , Daniel Rohrlich

We discuss two-photon physics, taking for illustration the particular but topical case of resonance fluorescence. We show that the basic concepts of interferences and correlations provide at the two-photon level an independent and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Eduardo Zubizarreta Casalengua , Fabrice P. Laussy , Elena del Valle

We reexamine the thought experiment and real experiment of Vaidman et al., by placing Dove prisms in the nested Mach-Zehnder interferometer arms. In those previous works, the criterion of whether a single photon was present, or not, was the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-25 Miguel A. Alonso , Andrew N. Jordan