English
Related papers

Related papers: Wave-particle duality of light appearing in the in…

200 papers

Bohr's Complementarity Principle is quantitatively formulated in terms of the distinguishability of various paths a quanton can take, and the measure of the interference it produces. This phenomenon results from the interference of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-21 Neha Pathania , Tabish Qureshi

A novel thermal light interferometer was recently introduced in V. Tamma and J. Seiler, New J. Phys. 18, 032002 (2016). Here, two classically correlated beams, obtained by beam splitting a thermal light beam, propagate through two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Vincenzo Tamma

Quantum coherence stemming from the superposition behaviour of a particle beyond the classical realm, serves as one of the most fundamental features in quantum mechanics. The wave-particle duality phenomenon, which shares the same origin,…

In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. {\bf A64}, 042113 (2001)] S. D\"urr proposed an interesting multibeam generalization of the quantitative formulation of interferometric wave-particle duality, discovered by Englert for two-beam interferometers.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Bimonte , R. Musto

The concept of wave-particle duality holds significant importance in the field of quantum mechanics, as it elucidates the dual nature encompassing both wave-like and particle-like properties exhibited by microscopic particles. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Kang-Kang Yang , Zhi-Xi Wang , Shao-Ming Fei

Wave--particle duality demonstrates the peculiar nature of quantum mechanics. In which-way experiments, depending on the measurement scheme, a particle exhibits either wave-like or particle-like properties, as summarized by Bohr's principle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Shiyu Wang , Zhiguang Yan , Clemens Gneiting , Rui Li , Franco Nori , Yasunobu Nakamura

The complementarity of single-photon's particle-like and wave-like behaviors can be described by the inequality $D^2+V^2 \leq 1$, with $D$ being the path distinguishability and $V$ being the fringe visibility. In this paper, we generalize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jie-Hui Huang , Sabine Wölk , Shi-Yao Zhu , M. Suhail Zubairy

Wave-particle duality finds a natural application for electrons or light propagating in disordered media where coherent corrections to transport are given by two-wave interference. For scatterers with internal degrees of freedom, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 Christian Miniatura , Cord A. Müller , Yin Lu , Guangquan Wang , Berthold-Georg Englert

Hong-Ou-Mandel interference, the fact that identical photons that arrive simultaneously on different input ports of a beam splitter bunch into a common output port, can be used to measure optical delays between different paths. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 Yuanyuan Chen , Matthias Fink , Fabian Steinlechner , Juan P. Torres , Rupert Ursin

When quantum state amplitudes interfere, surprising non-classical features emerge which emphasis the roles of indistinguishability and discreteness in quantum mechanics. A famous example in quantum optics is the Hong Ou Mandel interference…

The second-order spatial and temporal interference patterns with two independent single-mode He-Ne lasers are observed in a Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer. Two-photon interference in Feynman's path integral theory is employed to interpret…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-29 Jianbin Liu , Minglan Le , Bin Bai , Wentao Wang , Hui Chen , Yu Zhou , Fu-Li Li , Zhuo Xu

The Hong-Ou-Mandel effect provides a mechanism to determine the distinguishability of a photon pair by measuring the bunching rates of two photons interfering at a beam splitter. Of particular interest is the distinguishability in time,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Hannah Scott , Dominic Branford , Niclas Westerberg , Jonathan Leach , Erik M. Gauger

The double-slit experiment is the most direct demonstration of interference between individual quantum objects. Since similar experiments with single particles and more slits produce interference fringes reducible to a combination of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Lee A. Rozema , Zhao Zhuo , Tomasz Paterek , Borivoje Dakić

Some recent works have introduced a quantum twist to the concept of complementarity, exemplified by a setup in which the which-way detector is in a superposition of being present and absent. It has been argued that such experiments allow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 Tabish Qureshi

A third-order double-slit interference experiment with pseudo-thermal light source in the high-intensity limit has been performed by actually recording the intensities in three optical paths. It is shown that not only can the visibil- ity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Xi-Hao Chen , Wen Chen , Shao-Ying Meng , Wei Wu , Guang-Jie Zhai , Ling-An Wu

Unlike one-photon (first order) intensity correlation, two-photon (second order) intensity correlation is known to be impossible to achieve by any classical means. Over the last several decades, such quantum features have been intensively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 Byoung S. Ham

We consider an interferometer based on the concept of induced coherence, where two photons that originate in different second-order nonlinear crystals can interfere. We derive a complementarity relationship that links the first-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Gerard J. Machado , Lluc Sendra , Adam Vallés , Juan P. Torres

This article presents an experiment that can be conducted today and that could provide a deeper understanding of the interaction between the wave and particle aspects of an atom. The wave-particle duality is often presented as mutually…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Michel Gondran , Alexandre Gondran

We perform a nonlocal double-slit interference experiment with pseudothermal light. The experimental result exhibits a typical double-slit interference fringe in the intensity correlation measurement, in agreement with the theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lu Gao , Jun Xiong , Lu-Fang Lin , Wei Wang , Su-Heng Zhang , Kaige Wang

We show that a thermal light random in transverse direction can perform subwavelength double slit interference in a joint-intensity measurement. This is the classical version of quantum lithography, and it can be explained with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kaige Wang , De-zhong Cao