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Within monochromatic optical fields, we demonstrate the rotating-wave structured light with wave vortex carrying an intrinsic transverse orbital angular momentum orthogonal to the propagation direction of light. Remarkably, we find that…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-21 Zhen-Lai Wang

We have measured antinormally ordered Hanbury-Brown--Twiss correlations for coherent states of electromagnetic field by using stimulated parametric down-conversion process. Photons were detected by stimulated emission, rather than by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Koji Usami , Yoshihiro Nambu , Bao-Sen Shi , Akihisa Tomita , Kazuo Nakamura

We review basic physics and novel types of optical angular momentum. We start with a theoretical overview of momentum and angular momentum properties of generic optical fields, and discuss methods for their experimental measurements. In…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-04 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Franco Nori

An experiment is proposed to show that after initial frequency and polarization selection, classical thermal light from two independent sources can be made path-polarization entangled. Such light will show new intensity-intensity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-06 Partha Ghose , Anirban Mukherjee

The observation of the Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) effect with thermal light marked the birth of quantum optics. All the thermal sources considered to date did not feature quantum signatures of light, as they consisted of independent…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-15 Ohad Lib , Yaron Bromberg

The Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) effect holds a pivotal place in intensity interferometry and gave a seminal contribution to the development of quantum optics. To observe such an effect, both good spectral and timing resolutions are necessary.…

Intensity-interferometry based on Hanbury-Brown and Twiss's seminal experiment for determining the radius of the star Sirius formed the basis for developing the quantum theory of light. To date, the principle of this experiment is used in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Adrian E. Rubio Lopez , Ashwin K. Boddeti , Fanglin Bao , Hyunsoo Choi , Zubin Jacob

Intensity interferometry (II) offers a powerful means to observe stellar objects with a high resolution. In this work, we demonstrate that II can also probe internal stellar kinematics by revealing a time-asymmetric Hanbury Brown and Twiss…

An investigation of the role of the proximity effect in current cross correlations in multiterminal, channel-mixing, normal-superconducting systems is presented. The proposed experiment is an electrical analog of the optical Hanbury Brown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Buttiker , P. Samuelsson

We provide a vivid demonstration of the mechanical effect of transverse spin momentum in an optical beam in free space. This component of the Poynting momentum was previously thought to be virtual, and unmeasurable. Here, its effect is…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-29 V. Svak , O. Brobohaty , M. Siler , P. Jakl , J. Kanka , P. Zemanek , S. H. Simpson

Light can carry a spin angular momentum, an intrinsic and extrinsic orbital angular momentum, associated with a circular polarization, optical vortex beams, and varying beam trajectories, respectively. The interplay between these momenta…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-12 Raghvendra P. Chaudhary , Imon Kalyan , Nir Shitrit

A brief review is given on the discovery and the first five decades of the Hanbury Brown - Twiss effect and its generalized applications in high energy nuclear and particle physics, that includes a meta-review. Interesting and inspiring new…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 T. Csorgo

Typically, optical microscopy uses the wavelike properties of light to image a scene. However, photon arrival times provide more information about emitter properties than the classical intensity alone. Here, we show that the Hanbury Brown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Josef G. Worboys , Daniel W. Drumm , Andrew D. Greentree

Structured light has emerged as an important tool to interrogate and manipulate matter at micron and sub-micron scale. One form of structured light is an optical vortex beam. The helical wavefront of these vortices carry orbital angular…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-08 G. V. Pavan Kumar

Fifty years ago, Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) discovered photon bunching in light emitted by a chaotic source, highlighting the importance of two-photon correlations and stimulating the development of modern quantum optics . The quantum…

A theoretical framework in the spherical polar coordinate system is developed to systematically treat the correlation between intensity fluctuations (CIF) of electromagnetic light waves on scattering from a collection of particles of…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-22 Yi Ding

Light scattering in random media is usually considered within the framework of the three-dimensional Anderson universality class, with modifications for the vector nature of electromagnetic waves. We propose that the linear dispersiveness…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-05 Tobias Micklitz , Alexander Altland

When light waves propagate through disordered photonic lattices, they can eventually become localized due to multiple scattering effects. Here we show experimentally that while the evolution and localization of the photon density…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-27 Y. Lahini , Y. Bromberg , Y. Shechtman , A. Szameit , D. N. Christodoulides , R. Morandotti , Y. Silberberg

Understanding the boundary between classical and nonclassical phenomena is important for both fundamental researches in quantum optics and applications in quantum information. One of the most interesting research directions in this field is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Yu Gu , Yuhan Ma , Yiqi Song , Meixue Chen , Hui Chen , Huaibin Zheng , Yuchen He , Yu Zhou , Fuli Li , Zhuo Xu , Jianbin Liu

Hanbury-Brown and Twiss (HBT) effect is the foundation for stellar intensity interferometry. However, it is a phase insensitive two-photon interference effect. In this paper, we extend the HBT interferometer by mixing two phase-coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Xuan Tang , Yunxiao Zhang , Xueshi Guo , Liang Cui , Xiaoying Li , Z. Y. Ou