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We present the first realisation of a solitonic atom interferometer. A Bose-Einstein condensate of $1\times10^4$ atoms of rubidium-85 is loaded into a horizontal optical waveguide. Through the use of a Feshbach resonance, the $s$-wave…

The coherence effects induced by external photons coupled to matter waves inside a Mach-Zehnder three-grating interferometer are analyzed. Alternatively to atom-photon entanglement scenarios, the model considered here only relies on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-09 M. Davidovic , A. S. Sanz , M. Bozic , D. Arsenovic

Here we demonstrate quantum interference of photons on a Silicon chip produced from a single ring resonator photon source. The source is seamlessly integrated with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, which path entangles degenerate bi-photons…

Optical interferometers are extensively used in fundamental physics test, gravitational wave detection, quantum metrology, topological photonics, and quantum information processing. Fiber-based interferometers are compact, robust and cheap,…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-21 Ruiyang Chen , Yi-Han Luo , Jinbao Long , Junqiu Liu

We theoretically analyze a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with trapped condensates, and find that it is surprisingly stable against the nonlinearity induced by inter-particle interactions. The phase sensitivity, which we study for number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-17 Julian Grond , Ulrich Hohenester , Joerg Schmiedmayer , Augusto Smerzi

The transient phenomena of the Mach-Zender interferometer are discussed. To test the non-locality hypothesis, a single mode laser with a large coherence length is used. The behavior of a photon and its wave packets in the paths of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-14 Masanori Sato

Interferometers provide a highly sensitive means to investigate and exploit the coherence properties of light in metrology applications. However, interferometers come in various forms and exploit different properties of the optical states…

We present in this letter a scheme for optical interferometry. We utilize coherent-beam-stimulated two-mode squeezed light, which interacts with a phase shifter and is then squeezed again before detection. Our theoretical device has the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 William N. Plick , Jonathan P. Dowling , G. S. Agarwal

Ultrafast pulse optical vortices are spatiotemporal structures with a diverse range of applications. There are different ways to generate them, often restricted to a wavelength range. Likewise, characterization techniques frequently possess…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-01 Miguel López-Ripa , Íñigo Sola , Benjamín Alonso

Integrated optics are used to achieve astronomical interferometry inside robust and compact materials, improving the instruments stability and sensitivity. In order to perform differential phase measurements at the H$\alpha$ line (656.3 nm)…

We demonstrate chip-scale flat-top filters at near-infrared wavelengths using negative index photonic crystal based Mach Zehnder interferometers. Supported by full three-dimensional numerical simulations, we experimentally demonstrate a new…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Kocaman , M. S. Aras , N. C. Panoiu , M. Lu , C. W. Wong

Graphene provides an excellent platform for investigating electron quantum interference due to its outstanding coherent properties. In the quantum Hall regime, Mach--Zehnder (MZ) electronic interferometers are realized using p--n junctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Taegeun Song , Nojoon Myoung

Atom interferometers are very sensitive to accelerations and rotations. This property, which has some very interesting applications, induces a deleterious phase noise due to the seismic noise of the laboratory and this phase noise is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 A. Miffre , M. Jacquey , M. Büchner , G. Trénec , J. Vigué

Proposed, justified and tested measuring of beam spatial coherence, based on the detection of an interference visibility of the equal to intensity of beam replicas emerging under reflection from the rotated plane-parallel plate. The method…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-20 E. A. Tikhonov , A. K. Lyamets

We propose an optical ring interferometer to observe environment-induced spatial decoherence of massive objects. The object is held in a harmonic trap and scatters light between degenerate modes of a ring cavity. The output signal of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Henkel , M. Nest , P. Domokos , R. Folman

We experimentally demonstrate interferometer-type guiding structures for neutral atoms based on dipole potentials created by micro-fabricated optical systems. As a central element we use an array of atom waveguides being formed by focusing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Dumke , T. Muether , M. Volk , W. Ertmer , G. Birkl

We use a Mach-Zehnder quantum Hall interferometer of a novel design to investigate the interference effects at fractional filling factors. Our device brings together the advantages of usual Mach-Zehnder and Fabry-Perot quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 E. V. Deviatov , S. V. Egorov , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba

We demonstrate a 2-grating free electron Mach-Zehnder interferometer constructed in a transmission electron microscope. A symmetric binary phase grating and condenser lens system forms two spatially separated, focused probes at the sample…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-13 Cameron W. Johnson , Amy E. Turner , Benjamin J. McMorran

We have demonstrated stabilization of a fiber-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometer, with a centimeter-scale path difference, to the transmission minimum for the carrier wave of a frequency-modulated laser beam. A time-averaged extinction of 32…

We compute the interference pattern of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer operating in the fractional quantum Hall effect. Our theoretical proposal is inspired by a remarkable experiment on edge states in the Integer Quantum Hall effect (IQHE).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thibaut Jonckheere , Pierre Devillard , Adeline Crepieux , Thierry Martin