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We propose a scheme to explore two-photon high-dimensional entanglement associated with a transverse pattern by means of two-photon interference in a beamsplitter. We find that the topological symmetry of the angular spectrum of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gui-Fang Dang , Li-Ping Deng , Kaige Wang

Atomic three-grating Mach-Zehnder interferometry constitutes an important tool to probe fundamental aspects of the quantum theory. There is, however, a remarkable gap in the literature between the oversimplified models and robust numerical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 A. S. Sanz , M. Davidovic , M. Bozic

We study dephasing in an electronic Mach-Zehnder (MZ) interferometer based on quantum Hall (QH) edge states by a micromiter-sized Ohmic contact embedded in one of its arms. We find that at the filling factor $\nu=1$, as well as in the case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Edvin G. Idrisov , Ivan P. Levkivskyi , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

We report on a new mechanism of giant phase modulation. The phenomenon arises when a dispersed photonic mode (slow light) strongly couples to an excitonic resonance. In such a case, even a small amount of optically injected carriers creates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 C. Sturm , D. Tanese , H. S. Nguyen , H. Flayac , E. Gallopin , A. Lemaître , I. Sagnes , D. Solnyshkov , A. Amo , G. Malpuech , J. Bloch

We propose an experiment that permits observation of the de Broglie two-photon wave packet behavior for a pair of photons, using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. It is based on the use of pulsed lasers to generate pairs of photons via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Luiz Carlos Ryff , P. H. Souto Ribeiro

Optical interferometers are extensively used in fundamental physics test, gravitational wave detection, quantum metrology, topological photonics, and quantum information processing. Fiber-based interferometers are compact, robust and cheap,…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-21 Ruiyang Chen , Yi-Han Luo , Jinbao Long , Junqiu Liu

First results on the experimental realisation of a 2x2 programmable phase plate for electrons are presented. The design consists of an array of electrostatic einzel lenses that influence the phase of electron waves passing through 4…

We present an original statistical method to measure the visibility of interferences in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer in the presence of low frequency fluctuations. The visibility presents a single side lobe structure shown to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-17 Preden Roulleau , F. Portier , D. C. Glattli , P. Roche , A. Cavanna , G. Gaini , U. Gennser , D. Mailly

We report the observation of fringes from a three grating electron interferometer. Interference fringes have been observed at low energies ranging from 6 keV to 10 keV. Contrasts of up to 25% are recorded and exceed the maximal contrast of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Glen Gronniger , Brett Barwick , Herman Batelaan

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

Neutron grating interferometry is an advanced method in neutron imaging that allows the simultaneous recording of the transmission, the differential phase and the dark-field image. Especially the latter has recently received high interest…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-10 Tommy Reimann , Sebastian Mühlbauer , Michael Horisberger , Peter Böni , Michael Schulz

We theoretically analyze a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with trapped condensates, and find that it is surprisingly stable against the nonlinearity induced by inter-particle interactions. The phase sensitivity, which we study for number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-17 Julian Grond , Ulrich Hohenester , Joerg Schmiedmayer , Augusto Smerzi

We study both the wave-like behavior and particle-like behavior in a general Mach-Zehnder interferometer with its asymmetric beam splitter. A error-free measurement in the detector is used to extract the which-path information. The fringe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Yanjun Liu , Jing Lu , and Lan Zhou

Recent advances in quantum photonics have enabled increasingly robust protocols in optical phase estimation, achieving precisions beyond the standard quantum limit and approaching the Heisenberg limit. While intrinsic losses hinder the…

A beam splitter is an important component of an atomic/optical Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Here we study a Bose Einstein Condensate beam splitter, realized with a double well potential of tunable height. We analyze how the sensitivity of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Pezze' , A. Smerzi , G. P. Berman , A. R. Bishop , L. A. Collins

The interference gating is a novel method for robust time-resolved electron holographic measurements by directly switching the interference. Here, a new arrangement is presented in which a biprism in the condenser aperture as a fast…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Tolga Wagner , Tore Niermann , Felix Urban , Michael Lehmann

We demonstrate that the interaction of loop and nonlinear Fano resonances results in a formation of hybrid resonant states in Mach-Zehnder type interferometers, providing with opportunities for an advanced phase manipulation. The nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-20 Yi Xu , Andrey E. Miroshnichenko

Anyonic Fabry-P\'erot and Mach-Zehnder interferometers have been proposed theoretically and implemented experimentally as tools to probe electric charges and statistics of anyons. The experimentally observed visibility of Aharonov-Bohm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-04 Navketan Batra , Zezhu Wei , Smitha Vishveshwara , D. E. Feldman

We introduce an approach for performing spectrally resolved electron microscopy without the need for an electron spectrometer. The method involves an electron beam prepared as a coherent superposition of multiple paths, one of which passes…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-24 F. Javier García de Abajo , Cruz I. Velasco

We study theoretically electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers built from integer quantum Hall edge states, showing that the results of recent experiments can be understood in terms of multiparticle interference effects. These experiments…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-05-27 D. L. Kovrizhin , J. T. Chalker