English
Related papers

Related papers: Hanbury Brown and Twiss Interferometry with Twiste…

200 papers

Peripheral heavy ion reactions at ultra relativistic energies have large angular momentum that can be studied via two particle correlations using the Differential Hanbury Brown and Twiss method. We analyze the possibilities and sensitivity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-16 L. P. Csernai , S. Velle , D. J. Wang

Stellar intensity interferometry consists in measuring the correlation of the light intensity fluctuations at two telescopes observing the same star. The amplitude of the correlation is directly related to the luminosity distribution of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 William Guerin , Mathilde Hugbart , Sarah Tolila , Nolan Matthews , Olivier Lai , Jean-Pierre Rivet , G. Labeyrie , Robin Kaiser

Twisted light is light carrying orbital angular momentum. The profile of such a beam is a ring-like structure with a node at the beam axis, where a phase singularity exits. Due to the strong spatial inhomogeneity the mathematical…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 G. F. Quinteiro , D. E. Reiter , T. Kuhn

We introduce a new class of nondiffracting optical pulses possessing orbital angular momentum. By generalizing the X-waves solution of the Maxwell equation, we discover the coupling between angular momentum and the temporal degrees of…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-09 Marco Ornigotti , Claudio Conti , Alexander Szameit

Two-photon interference is a fundamental resource for quantum technologies and optical quantum computing, underpinning precision measurements, scalable entanglement distribution, and the operation of photonic circuits and quantum network…

Spin angular momentum, an elementary dynamical property of classical electromagnetic fields, plays an important role in spin-orbit and light-matter interactions, especially in near-field optics. The research on optical spins has led to the…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-15 Peng Shi , Heng Li , Luping Du , Xiaocong Yuan

The well-known effects of the spin-orbit interaction of light are manifestations of pair mutual influence of the three types of the angular momentum of light, namely, the spin angular momentum, the extrinsic orbital angular momentum and the…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 Sarkew Abdulkareem , Nataliya Kundikova

We investigate the effect of incoherent scattering in a Hanbury Brown and Twiss situation with electrons in edge states of a three-terminal conductor submitted to a strong perpendicular magnetic field. The modelization of incoherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Christophe Texier , Markus Buttiker

Light is the fundamental medium through which we perceive the world around us. In the modern era, light can not only be used in its raw form but can also be used as a versatile tool. Generally, light fields carry energy and momentum (both…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-18 Bikash K. Das , Camilo Granados , Marcelo F. Ciappina

Photons that are entangled or correlated in orbital angular momentum have been extensively used for remote sensing, object identification and imaging. It has recently been demonstrated that intensity fluctuations give rise to the formation…

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light holds great promise for applications in optical communication, super-resolution imaging, and high-dimensional quantum computing. However, the spatio-temporal coherence of the light source has been…

Light beam with optical vortices can propagate in free space only with integer orbital angular momentum. Here, we invert this scientific consensus theoretically and experimentally by proposing light beams carrying natural non-integer…

In this lecture, I first present my views on the second vs the first quantum revolution, then describe the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect with photons, and indicate why it was so important in the development of modern quantum optics. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Alain Aspect

Light possesses both spin and orbital angular momentum, which can spontaneously couple in spatially asymmetric optical fields. This phenomenon is referred to as optical spin-orbit coupling. This coupling is pivotal in modern optics due to…

The spin angular momentum in an elliptically polarized beam of light plays several noteworthy roles in optical traps. It contributes to the linear momentum density in a non-uniform beam, and thus to the radiation pressure exerted on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 David B. Ruffner , David G. Grier

In exploring the light-induced dynamics within the linear response regime, this study investigates the induced orbital angular momentum on a wide variety of electronic structures. We derive a general expression for the torque induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Philippe Scheid , Stéphane Mangin , Sébastien Lebègue

When light is transmitted through optically inhomogeneous and anisotropic media the spatial distribution of light can be modified according to its input polarization state. A complete analysis of this process, based on the paraxial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-08 Gabriel F. Calvo , Antonio Picón

Peripheral heavy ion reactions at ultra relativistic energies have large angular momentum that can be studied via two particle correlations using the Differential Hanbury Brown and Twiss method. In the present work we analyze the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-07-29 L. P. Csernai , S. Velle

Optical beams with a new and distinctive type of helicity have become the subject of much recent interest. While circularly polarised light comprises photons with spin angular momentum, these optically engineered 'twisted beams' (optical…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 David L. Andrews , Luciana C. Davila Romero , Mohamed Babiker

We present a study of an Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) interferometer realized with anyons. Such a device can directly probe entanglement and fractional statistics of initially uncorrelated particles. We calculate HBT cross-correlations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Gabriele Campagnano , Oded Zilberberg , Igor V. Gornyi , Dmitri E. Feldman , Andrew C. Potter , Yuval Gefen