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In this letter, we present a detailed, all optical study of the influence of different excitation schemes on the indistinguishability of single photons from a single InAs quantum dot. For this study, we measure the Hong-Ou-Mandel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Tobias Huber , Ana Predojević , Daniel Föger , Glenn Solomon , Gregor Weihs

The two-photon Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference is a pure quantum effect which indicates the degree of indistinguishability of photons. The four-photon HOM interference exhibits richer dynamics in comparison to the two-photon interference…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-20 A. Ferreri , V. Ansari , C. Silberhorn , P. R. Sharapova

We report an electrically driven semiconductor single photon source capable of emitting photons with a coherence time of up to 400 ps under fixed bias. It is shown that increasing the injection current causes the coherence time to reduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-28 R. B. Patel , A. J. Bennett , K. Cooper , P. Atkinson , C. A. Nicoll , D. A. Ritchie , A. J. Shields

We analyze the interference of individual photons in a linear-optical setup comprised of two overlapping Mach-Zehnder interferometers joined via a common beam splitter. We show how, in this setup, two kinds of standard interference effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Kevin J. Randles , S. J. van Enk

We study the influence of the relativistic redshift on Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference, and present a genuine quantum test of general relativity. We use Glauber's theory of quantum coherence to predict the coincidence probability of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-30 Roy Barzel , David Edward Bruschi , Andreas W. Schell , Claus Laemmerzahl

The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect is widely regarded as the quintessential quantum interference phenomenon in optics. In this work we examine how nonlinearity can smear statistical photon bunching in the HOM interferometer. We model both the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-25 K. A. Ralley , I. V. Lerner , I. V. Yurkevich

The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect is a striking demonstration of destructive quantum interference between pairs of indistinguishable bosons, realised so far only with massless photons. Here we propose an experiment which can realise this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 R. J. Lewis-Swan , K. V. Kheruntsyan

Superposition and indistinguishablility between probability amplitudes have played an essential role in observing quantum interference effects of correlated photons. The Hong-Ou-Mandel interference and interferences of the path-entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Heonoh Kim , Sang Min Lee , Han Seb Moon

Entanglement is a fundamental feature of quantum mechanics, considered a key resource in quantum information processing. Measuring entanglement is an essential step in a wide range of applied and foundational quantum experiments. When a…

While two-photon Hong-Ou-Mandel interference visibility has become a standard metric for single-photon sources, many optical quantum technologies require the generation and manipulation of larger photonic states. To date, efficiency…

Essential for building quantum networks over remote independent nodes, the indistinguishability of photons has been extensively studied by observing the coincidence dip in the Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer. However, indistinguishability is…

One of the fastest growing areas of interest in quantum computing is its use within machine learning methods, in particular through the application of quantum kernels. Despite this large interest, there exist very few proposals for relevant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-12 Cassandra Bowie , Sally Shrapnel , Michael Kewming

We present Hong-Ou-Mandel interference of single photons generated via two different physical processes by two independent atomic systems: scattering by a single atom, and parametric generation via four-wave mixing in a cloud of cold atoms.…

The Hong-Ou-Mandel interference dip is caused by an entangled state, a delocalized bi-photon state. We propose a method of detecting this entanglement by utilizing inverse Hong-Ou-Mandel interference, while taking into account vacuum and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Megan R. Ray , Steven J. van Enk

The rapid advancement of quantum information technology has increased the demand for precise testing and calibration of quantum modules, especially in optical quantum circuits where module reliability directly impacts system performance. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Xiaoqian Zhang , Maolin Luo , Xiaoqi Zhou

Optical interferometry has been a long-standing setup for characterization of quantum states of light. Both the linear and the nonlinear interferences can provide information about the light statistics an underlying detail of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Konstantin E. Dorfman , Shahaf Asban , Bing Gu , Shaul Mukamel

Boson bunching is amongst the most remarkable features of quantum physics. A celebrated example in optics is the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect, where the bunching of two photons arises from a destructive quantum interference between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Benoît Seron , Leonardo Novo , Nicolas J. Cerf

Precise measurements are the key to advances in all fields of science. Quantum entanglement shows higher sensitivity than achievable by classical methods. Most physical quantities including position, displacement, distance, angle, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Shi-Long Liu , Shi-Kai Liu , Yin-Hai Li , Dong-Sheng Ding , Guang-Can Guo , Bao-Sen Shi

Entanglement is a key resource in quantum technologies, enhancing precision and resolution in imaging and sensing by leveraging the cross-correlation of photon pairs. This correlation enables precise time synchronization of photons reaching…

We describe a direct method for experimental determination of the negativity of an arbitrary two-qubit state with 11 measurements performed on multiple copies of the two-qubit system. Our method is based on the experimentally accessible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-06 Karol Bartkiewicz , Grzegorz Chimczak , Karel Lemr