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When a photon is detected after passing through an interferometer one might wonder which path it took, and a meaningful answer can only be given if one has the means of monitoring the photon's whereabouts. We report the realization of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-09 Yink Loong Len , Jibo Dai , Berthold-Georg Englert , Leonid A. Krivitsky

We introduce a concept of the Mach-Zehnder-Fano interferometer by inserting a cavity exhibiting Fano resonance into a conventional interferometer. By employing the scattering-matrix approach, we demonstrate that the transmission is…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrey E. Miroshnichenko , Yuri S. Kivshar

Classical wisdom of wave-particle duality says that it is impossible to observe simultaneously the wave and particle nature of microscopic object. Mathematically the principle requests that the interference visibility V and which-path…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Fenghua Qi , Zhiyuan Wang , Weiwang Xu , Xue-Wen Chen , Zhi-Yuan Li

We present a method for intrusion detection which is based on the Mach-Zehnder interference effect. This device provides monitored surveillance by continuously measuring the intensity of light collected by a pair of photodetectors. We find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 C. Allen Bishop , Travis S. Humble , Ryan S. Bennink , Brian P. Williams

Complementarity, that is the ability of a quantum object to behave either as a particle or as a wave, is one of the most intriguing features of quantum mechanics. An exemplary Gedanken experiment, emphasizing such a measurement-dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-06 F. Kaiser , T. Coudreau , P. Milman , D. B. Ostrowsky , S. Tanzilli

Light's wave-particle duality is at the heart of quantum mechanics and can be well illustrated by Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment. The choice of inserting or removing the second classical (quantum) beam splitter in a Mach-Zehnder…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-06 H. Yan , K. Liao , Z. Deng , J. He , Z. Y. Xue , Z. M. Zhang , S. L. Zhu

A quantum wavemetry scheme based on the coherence de Broglie wavelength (CBW) is proposed using an M coupled Mach Zehnder interferometer (MZI) architecture to achieve superresolution sensing and metrology. Although CBW does not attain the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 B. S. Ham

We suggest a self-testing teleportation configuration for photon q-bits based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. That is, Bob can tell how well the input state has been teleported without knowing what that input state was. One could imagine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 T. C. Ralph

Possible paths of a photon passing through a nested Mach-Zehnder interferometer on its way to a detector are analyzed using the consistent histories formulation of quantum mechanics, and confirmed using a set of weak measurements (but not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Robert B. Griffiths

In this paper, we investigate the influence of the symmetry of the biphoton wavefunction on the coincidence measurement of the generalized Mach-Zehnder (MZ) interferometer, where there are a temporal and frequency shift operations between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Nicolas Fabre

We investigate a Mach-Zehnder interferometer fed by two time-dependently driven single-particle sources, one of them placed in front of the interferometer, the other in the center of one of the arms. As long as the two sources are operated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Guillem Rosselló , Francesca Battista , Michael Moskalets , Janine Splettstoesser

In this work, we analyze the behavior of continuum single-photon pulses in some quantum communication schemes. In particular, we consider the single-photon interference in a Mach-Zenhder interferometer, the HOM interference and the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-19 F. F. S. Rios , R. V. Ramos

We investigate quantitatively the wave-particle duality in a general Mach-Zehnder interferometer setup with an asymmetric beam splitter. The asymmetric beam splitter introduces additional a priori which-path knowledge, which is different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Li Li , Nai-Le Liu , Sixia Yu

The employment of path entangled multiphoton states enables measurement of phase with enhanced precision. It is common practice to demonstrate the unique properties of such quantum states by measuring super-resolving oscillations in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Itai Afek , Oron Ambar , Yaron Silberberg

We demonstrate that networks of locally connected processing units with a primitive learning capability exhibit behavior that is usually only attributed to quantum systems. We describe networks that simulate single-photon beam-splitter and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 H. De Raedt , K. De Raedt , K. Michielsen

Here we are investigating the enhancement in phase sensitivity and resolution in Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) based quantum LiDAR. We are using multi-photonic state (MPS), superposition of four coherent states [1], as the input state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Priyanka Sharma , Manoj K. Mishra , Devendra Kumar Mishra

Scalable photonic quantum technologies are based on multiple nested interferometers. To realize this architecture, integrated optical structures are needed to ensure stable, controllable, and repeatable operation. Here we show a key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-12 Brian J. Smith , Dmytro Kundys , Nicholas Thomas-Peter , P. G. R. Smith , I. A. Walmsley

A polarized photon with well-defined orbital angular momentum that emerges from a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is shown to circumvent wave-particle duality. Its polarization-resolved detection probability forms a non-sinusoidal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-29 M. Kolar , T. Opatrny , G. Kurizki

Mach-Zehnder interferometer is a common device in quantum phase estimation and the photon losses in it are an important issue for achieving a high phase accuracy. Here we thoroughly discuss the precision limit of the phase in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 Xu Yu , Xiang Zhao , Luyi Shen , Yanyan Shao , Jing Liu , Xiaoguang Wang

We study the way that chromatic dispersion affects the visibility and the synchronization on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocols in a widely-used setup based on the use of two fiber-based Mach-Zehnder (MZ) interferometers at…