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Interferometric photon-correlation measurements, which correspond to the second-order intensity cross-correlations between the two output ports of an unbalanced Michelson interferometer, are sensitive to both amplitude and phase…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. Lebreton , I. Abram , R. Braive , I. Sagnes , I. Robert-Philip , A. Beveratos

We report the results of two experiments performed with two-photon light, produced via collinear degenerate optical spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC), in which both second-order (one-photon) and fourth-order (two-photon)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Timothy Yarnall , Ayman F. Abouraddy , Bahaa E. A. Saleh , Malvin C. Teich

Two optical fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometers were constructed in an environment with a temperature stabilization of better than 1 mK per day. One interferometer with a length of 2 m optical fiber in each arm with the main direction of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Victor de Haan

Optical resonators provide a powerful tool for testing aspects of Lorentz invariance. Here, we present a reanalysis of an experiment where a path asymmetry was created in an optical ring resonator by introducing a dielectric prism in one…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-12 Stephen R. Parker , Matthew Mewes , Fred N. Baynes , Michael E. Tobar

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

Theoretically speaking, a photon can travel arbitrarily long before it enters into a detector, resulting a click. How much information can a photon carry? We study a bipartite asymmetric "two-way signaling" protocol as an extension of that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Li-Yi Hsu , Ching-Yi Lai , You-Chia Chang , Chien-Ming Wu , Ray-Kuang Lee

Photon-assisted electron transport in ballistic graphene is analyzed using scattering theory. We show that the presence of an ac signal (applied to a gate electrode in a region of the system) has interesting consequences on electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Trauzettel , Ya. M. Blanter , A. F. Morpurgo

We experimentally demonstrate optical Mach-Zehnder interferometer utilizing displaced Sagnac configuration to enhance its phase stability. The interferometer with footprint of 27x40 cm offers individually accessible paths and shows phase…

We consider a subgroup of unitary transformations on a mode of light induced by a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer and an algebra of observables describing a photon-number detector proceeded by an interferometer. We explore the uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-28 Madhura Ghosh Dastidar , Gniewomir Sarbicki

In recent work by Schnez et al. [PRB 78, 195427 (2008)], they studied the analytical model of the energy spectrum of a graphene quantum dot in a perpendicular magnetic field. In this comment we first point out that the results Eqs.(5), (6)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-22 Babatunde J. Falaye , Guo-Hua Sun , Wen-Chao Qiang , Shi-Hai Dong

A critical review of frequency-shift phenomena a la Doppler effect is presented. The importance of Fermi's theory of 1932 is pointed out, and it is argued that there exists a gap in our understanding of this phenomena at a fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S C Tiwari

We find two relations between coherence and path-information in a multi-path interferometer. The first builds on earlier results for the two-path interferometer, which used minimum-error state discrimination between detector states to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Emilio Bagan , Janos A. Bergou , Seth S. Cottrell , Mark Hillery

We report the results of a double-slit-like experiment in the infrared range, which evidence an anomalous behaviour of photon systems under particular (energy and space) constraints. The statistical analysis of these outcomes (independently…

General Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 F. Cardone , R. Mignani , W. Perconti , A. Petrucci , R. Scrimaglio

Famous double-slit or double-path experiments, implemented in a Young's or Mach-Zehnder interferometer, have confirmed the dual nature of quantum matter, When a stream of photons, neutrons, atoms, or molecules, passes through two slits,…

The Mach-Zehnder interferometer is a fundamental tool for measuring phase shifts between two light paths, serving as a crucial prototype for achieving high-precision measurements in various scientific and technological applications. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Bing-Shu Hu , Xiao-Ming Lu

This commentary is written in response to arXiv:1907.13198. In this article, Zmuidzinas et al. raise questions about the results reported by our group in Nature Astronomy (DOI: 10.1038/s41550-019-0828-6) regarding our experimental…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Mona Jarrahi , Yen-Ju Lin

The archetypal quantum interferometry experiment yields an interference pattern that results from the indistinguishability of two spatiotemporal paths available to a photon or to a pair of entangled photons. A fundamental challenge in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Batiste Galmès , Kien Phan-Huy , Luca Furfaro , Yanne K. Chembo , Jean-Marc Merolla

Although electrons and photons produce the same interference patterns in the two-slit experiments, the description of these patters is markedly different. This difference was analyzed by Bohm. Later on Sanz and Miret-Artes and others were…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Arkady L. Kholodenko

We propose a simple scheme to swap the non local correlations, characteristic of a Franson interferometric setup, between pairs of frequency entangled photons emitted by distinct non linear crystals in a parametric down conversion process.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Ugo Messina , G. Massimo Palma

In a double-slit experiment with a bipartite system, the visibility of interference fringes depends on the availability of which-way information. Here, we report the formation of a Bell-like state of photoelectron and residual ion in the…