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In this work, we explore the scheme of attosecond quantum interferometry (AQI), the quantum optical version of classical attosecond interferometry, which allows to measure quantum optical properties on the attosecond time-scale. We develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Javier Rivera-Dean , Lidija Petrovic , Maciej Lewenstein , Philipp Stammer

This tutorial gives a general introduction to optical and infrared interferometry, specifically addressing two questions: `Can I use VLTI to observe my favourite object?' and `What will it tell me?' The observables measured by an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timothy R. Bedding

Interferometers measure a wide variety of dynamic processes by converting a phase change into an intensity change. Nonlinear interferometers, making use of nonlinear media in lieu of beamsplitters, promise substantial improvement in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-16 Joseph M. Lukens , Nicholas A. Peters , Raphael C. Pooser

The quest to have both which-path knowledge and interference fringes in a double-slit experiment dates back to the inception of quantum mechanics (QM) and to the famous Einstein-Bohr debates. In this paper we propose and discuss an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-04 Stefan Ataman

A novel approach for measuring wavefunction collapse is proposed which, unlike interferometric measurements, is not affected by decoherence. A mirror of a Michelson interferometer is transferred into a quantum superposition, where the decay…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Garrelt Quandt-Wiese

A new optical topology and signal readout strategy for a laser interferometer gravitational wave detector were proposed recently by Braginsky and Khalili . Their method is based on using a nonlinear medium inside a microwave oscillator to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Yu. Levin

We report on a universal method to measure the genuine indistinguishability of n-photons - a crucial parameter that determines the accuracy of optical quantum computing. Our approach relies on a low-depth cyclic multiport interferometer…

Using spontaneous parametric down conversion and a 50:50 beam splitter, we generate coaxial polarization-entangled photon pairs, of which the two photons are far separated from each other. The photons are then sent one by one through one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-06 Xian-Min Jin , Cheng-Zhi Peng , Tao Yang , Youjin Deng

Quantum Hall edge states offer avenues for quasiparticle interferometry, provided that the ratio between phase coherence length and quantum Hall interferometer (QHI) size is large enough. Maximizing this ratio by shrinking the QHI area…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 N. Moreau , B. Brun , S. Somanchi , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , C. Stampfer , B. Hackens

Many quantum advantages in metrology and communication arise from interferometric phenomena. Such phenomena can occur on ultrafast time scales, particularly when energy-time entangled photons are employed. These have been relatively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Jean-Philippe W. MacLean , John M. Donohue , Kevin J. Resch

We show that quasiparticle interference (QPI) due to omnipresent weak impurities and probed by Fourier transform scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy acts as a direct experimental probe of bulk odd-frequency superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-11 Debmalya Chakraborty , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We investigate theoretically the behavior of the current oscillations in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) as a function of its source bias. Recently, The MZI interference visibility showed an unexplained lobe pattern behavior…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Neder , E. Ginossar

Interference lies at the heart of the behavior of classical and quantum light. It is thus crucial to understand the boundaries between which interference patterns can be explained by a classical electromagnetic description of light and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Luca Rigovacca , Carlo Di Franco , Benjamin J. Metcalf , Ian A. Walmsley , M. S. Kim

It is known that quantum interference can disappear with the mere possibility of distinguishability without actually performing the act. We create such distinguishability in an unbalanced SU(1,1) interferometer and indeed observe no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Nan Huo , Liang Cui , Yunxiao Zhang , Wen Zhao , Xueshi Guo , Z. Y. Ou , Xiaoying Li

We present experimental results demonstrating the quantum interference of two photons distinguishable in their transverse momenta, each entering the input ports of a balanced beam splitter. This counterintuitive interference effect is made…

Quasi-particle interference (QPI) measurements have provided a powerful tool for determining the momentum dependence of the gap of unconventional superconductors. Here we examine the possibility of using such measurements to probe the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-03-25 Thomas Dahm , Douglas J. Scalapino

A practical quantum measurement method based on the quantum nature of anti-bunching photon emission has been developed to detect single particles without the restriction of the diffraction limit. By simultane- ously counting the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-24 Jin-Ming Cui , Fang-Wen Sun , Xiang-Dong Chen , Zhao-Jun Gong , Guang-Can Guo

Quasi-particle interference (QPI) is a powerful tool to characterize the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter in unconventional superconductors, by mapping the spatial dependence of elastic tunneling of electrons between the tip…

We provide the first demonstration that a neutron far-field interferometer can be employed to measure the microstructure of a sample. The interferometer is based on the moir\'e pattern of two phase modulating gratings which was previously…

The double-slit interferometer and the Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) with balanced beam splitters are prototypical setups for investigating the quantum wave-particle duality. These setups induced a quantitative association of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Diego S. S. Chrysosthemos , Marcos L. W. Basso , Jonas Maziero