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X-ray free electron lasers (X-FELs) present new opportunities to study ultrafast lattice dynamics in complex materials. While the unprecedented source brilliance enables high fidelity measurement of structural dynamics, it also raises…

We present a preliminary laboratory test of a setup designed to measure Hanbury Brown and Twiss-type intensity correlations from a chaotic light source using five spectral channels simultaneously. After averaging the zero-delay correlation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 S Tolila , G Labeyrie , R Kaiser , J. -P Rivet , W Guerin

We construct an electron optical system to investigate Bragg diffraction (the crystal lattice plane, $10^{-2}$-$10^{-3}$ rad) with the objective lens turned off by adjusting the current in the intermediate lenses. A crossover was located on…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-06 Hiroshi Nakajima , Atsuhiro Kotani , Ken Harada , Shigeo Mori

Motivated by recent experimental initiatives, such as at the Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields (HIBEF) at the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL), we calculate the birefringent scattering of x-rays at the combined…

X-ray photoelectron diffraction is a powerful tool for determining the structure of clean and adsorbate-covered surfaces. Extending the technique into the ultrafast time domain will open the door to studies as diverse as the direct…

We demonstrate near-atomic-resolution Bragg diffraction from aerosolized single granulovirus crystals using an x-ray free-electron laser. The form of the aerosol injector is nearly identical to conventional liquid-microjet nozzles, but the…

Extreme ultraviolet pulses as generated by high harmonic generation (HHG) are a powerful tool for both time-resolved spectroscopy and coherent diffractive imaging. However, the integration of spectroscopy and microscopy to harness the…

The beam energy dependence of correlation lengths (the Hanbury-Brown-Twiss radii) is calculated by using a blast-wave model and the results are comparable with those from RHIC-STAR beam energy scan data as well as the LHC-ALICE…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-12 S. Zhang , Y. G. Ma , J. H. Chen , C. Zhong

A longstanding goal of Akira Tonomura was to observe Hanbury Brown--Twiss anti-correlations between electrons in a field-emission free electron beam. The experimental results were reported in his 2011 paper with Tetsuji Kodama and Nobuyuki…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-18 Gordon Baym , Kan Shen

X-ray Free-Electron Lasers (XFELs) deliver X-ray pulses with a coherent flux that is approximately eight orders of magnitude greater than that available from a modern third generation synchrotron source. The power density in an XFEL pulse…

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

We report the first intensity correlation measured with star light since Hanbury Brown and Twiss' historical experiments. The photon bunching $g^{(2)}(\tau, r=0)$, obtained in the photon counting regime, was measured for 3 bright stars,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-14 W. Guerin , A. Dussaux , M. Fouché , G. Labeyrie , J. -P. Rivet , D. Vernet , F. Vakili , R. Kaiser

We report the experimental observation of the nonlocal geometric phase in Hanbury Brown-Twiss polarized intensity interferometry. The experiment involves two independent, polar- ized, incoherent sources, illuminating two polarized…

We propose a new approach, based on the Hanbury Brown and Twiss intensity interferometry, to transform a Cherenkov telescope to its equivalent optical telescope. We show that, based on the use of photonics components borrowed from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Pierre-Marie Gori , Farrokh Vakili , Jean-Pierre Rivet , William Guerin , Mathilde Hugbart , Andrea Chiavassa , Adrien Vakili , Robin Kaiser , Guillaume Labeyrie

To extract information on hadron production dynamics in the ultrarelativistic heavy ion collision, the space-time structure of the hadron source has been measured using Hanbury Brown and Twiss interferometry. We study the distortion of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-03 Koichi Hattori

Intensity interferometry, based on the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect, is a simple and inexpensive method for optical interferometry at microarcsecond angular resolutions; its use in astronomy was abandoned in the 1970s because of low…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Sascha Trippe , Jae-Young Kim , Bangwon Lee , Changsu Choi , Junghwan Oh , Taeseok Lee , Sung-Chul Yoon , Myungshin Im , Yong-Sun Park

This paper describes how to efficiently solve time-dependent x-ray dynamic diffraction problems in distorted crystals with an FFT-based beam propagation method (FFT BPM). We show examples of using the technique to simulate the propagation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Jacek Krzywinski , Aliaksei Halavanau

We propose a Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) experiment of Cooper pairs on the edge channels of quantum spin Hall insulators. The helical edge channels provide a well defined beam of Cooper pairs and perfect Andreev reflections from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 Mahn-Soo Choi

We demonstrate that a common-line method can assemble a 3D oversampled diffracted intensity distribution suitable for high-resolution structure solution from a set of measured 2D diffraction patterns, as proposed in experiments with an…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-10-16 V. L. Shneerson , A. Ourmazd , D. K. Saldin

Coherent diffractive imaging of individual free nanoparticles has opened novel routes for the in-situ analysis of their transient structural, optical, and electronic properties. So far, single-shot single-particle diffraction was assumed to…