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Interference is conventionally attributed to path-accumulated phase differences, with measurement treated as a passive readout. Here we demonstrate that single-particle interference is governed by the relative phase between the prepared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Tai Hyun Yoon

Entanglement is an extraordinary feature of quantum mechanics. Sources of entangled optical photons were essential to test the foundations of quantum physics through violations of Bell's inequalities. More recently, entangled many-body…

Accurately controlling the quantum coherence of photons is pivotal for their applications in quantum sensing and quantum imaging. Here, we propose the utilization of quantum entanglement and local phase manipulation techniques to control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Dianzhen Cui , Xi-Lin Wang , X. X. Yi , Li-Ping Yang

It was shown recently that entanglement of identical particles has a feature called dualism [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 140404 (2013)], which is fundamentally connected with quantum indistinguishability. Here we report an experiment that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 J. -J. Ma , X. -X. Yuan , C. Zu , X. -Y. Chang , P. -Y. Hou , L. -M. Duan

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

In this paper we describe within the formalism of Quantum Optics (QO) a double Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). For single photon Fock states this experimental setup is shown to exhibit a counter-intuitive behavior: for certain values of…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-08 Stefan Ataman

Over the last several decades, entangled photon pairs generated from \c{hi}^((2)) nonlinear optical materials via spontaneous parametric down conversion processes have been intensively studied for various quantum correlations such as Bell…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Byoung S. Ham

We present a technique to completely characterise the spectral-temporal wave function of a broadband photon pair using spectral-shearing interferometry. Our method is fully self-referencing and is generalisable across a wide range of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Alex O. C. Davis , Valerian Thiel , Brian J. Smith

One of the milestones of quantum mechanics is Bohr's complementarity principle. It states that a single quantum can exhibit a particle-like \emph{or} a wave-like behaviour, but never both at the same time. These are mutually exclusive and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Auccaise , R. M. Serra , J. G. Filgueiras , R. S. Sarthour , I. S. Oliveira , L. C. Céleri

Wave-particle duality is a typical example of Bohr's complementarity principle that plays a significant role in quantum mechanics. Previous studies used the visibility of an interference pattern to quantify the wave property and used path…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Yuan Yuan , Zhibo Hou , Yuan-Yuan Zhao , Han-Sen Zhong , Guo-Yong Xiang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

To test the principle of complementarity and wave-particle duality quantitatively, we need a quantum composite system that can be controlled by experimental parameters. Here, we demonstrate that a double-path interferometer consisting of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-19 Tai Hyun Yoon , Minhaeng Cho

We propose and analyze a mesoscopic device producing on-demand entangled pairs of electrons. The system consists of two capacitively coupled Mach-Zehnder interferometers implemented in a quantum Hall structure. A pair of electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-07 A. A. Vyshnevyy , A. V. Lebedev , G. B. Lesovik , G. Blatter

Photons in a two-path interferometer best embody wave-particle duality (WPD), which is a core concept of quantum theory. So far, the WPD relation is commonly written as $V^2+D^2 \leq 1$, where $V$ is the interference fringe visibility and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Naofumi Abe , Keiichi Edamatsu

A quantum system composed of two or more subsystems can be in an entangled state, i.e. a state in which the properties of the global system are well defined but the properties of each subsystem are not. Entanglement is at the heart of…

Wave-particle duality, intertwining two inherently contradictory properties of quantum systems, remains one of the most conceptually profound aspects of quantum mechanics. By using the concept of energy capacity, the ability of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Yan-Han Yang , Xin-Zhu Liu , Jun-Li Jiang , Hu Chen , Xue Yang , Xiao-Feng Qian , Shao-Ming Fei , Ming-Xing Luo

Entanglement and interference are both hallmark effects of quantum physics. Particularly rich dynamics arise when multiple (at least partially) indistinguishable particles are subjected to either of these phenomena. By combining both…

Wave-particle duality as one of the expression of Bohr complementarity is a significant concept in the field of quantum mechanics. Quantitative analysis of wave-particle duality aims to establish a complementary relation between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Zhaofang Bai , ShuanpingDu

Wave particle duality, also called complementarity, is deeply rooted in the heart of quantum theory. It is fully exemplified in the famous Wheeler's delayed choice experiment where the choice of the wave nature (ability to interfere) or the…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-21 Olivier Emile , Janine Emile

The delayed-choice quantum eraser has been intensively studied for the wave-particle duality of a single photon in an interferometric system over the last decades. Coincidence measurements between quantum erasers have also been applied for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 Byoung S. Ham

Quantum entanglement, one of the defining features of quantum mechanics, has been demonstrated in a variety of nonlinear spin-like systems. Quantum entanglement in linear systems has proven significantly more challenging, as the intrinsic…