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The interferometers of Hanbury Brown and collaborators in the 1950s and 60s, and their modern descendants now being developed (intensity interferometers) measure the spatial power spectrum of the source from intensity correlations at two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tina Wentz , Prasenjit Saha

In traditional Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) schemes, the thermal intensity-intensity correlations are phase insensitive. Here we propose a modified HBT scheme with phase conjugation to demonstrate the phase-sensitive and nonfactorizable…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-21 Li-Gang Wang , M. Al-Amri , M. Suhail Zubairy

The Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) effect holds a pivotal place in intensity interferometry and gave a seminal contribution to the development of quantum optics. To observe such an effect, both good spectral and timing resolutions are necessary.…

The Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) effect, discovered in the 1950s and further developed in the 1960s, was originally used to estimate stellar angular diameters through intensity correlations measured by spatially separated detectors. Further…

The correlation of light from two sources leads to an interference pattern if they belong to a specific time interval known as the coherence time, denoted as $\Delta \tau$. The relationship governing this phenomenon is $\Delta \tau \Delta…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Km Nitu Rai , Soumen Basak , Subrata Sarangi , Prasenjit Saha

Intensity interferometry (II) offers a powerful means to observe stellar objects with a high resolution. In this work, we demonstrate that II can also probe internal stellar kinematics by revealing a time-asymmetric Hanbury Brown and Twiss…

Stellar intensity interferometry consists in measuring the correlation of the light intensity fluctuations at two telescopes observing the same star. The amplitude of the correlation is directly related to the luminosity distribution of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 William Guerin , Mathilde Hugbart , Sarah Tolila , Nolan Matthews , Olivier Lai , Jean-Pierre Rivet , G. Labeyrie , Robin Kaiser

Hanbury-Brown-Twiss interferometry (HBTI) is used to study integer and fractionally filled Mott Insulator (MI) phases in period-2 optical superlattices. In contrast to the quasimomentum distribution, this second order interferometry pattern…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Ana Maria Rey , Indubala I. Satija , Charles W. Clark

Intensity interferometry (Hanbury Brown - Twiss effect) is an interesting and useful concept that is usually presented as a manifestation of the quantum statistics of indistinguishable particles. Here, by exploiting possibilities for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 Jordan Cotler , Frank Wilczek

Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) interferometry is a milestone experiment that transformed our understanding of the nature of light. The concept was demonstrated in 1956 to measure the radii of stars through photon coincidence detection. This…

The Hanbury Brown Twiss (HBT) interferometer was proposed to observe intensity correlations of starlight to measure a star's angular diameter. As the intensity of light that reaches the detector from a star is very weak, one cannot usually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-11 Xiaoping Ma , Chenglong You , Sushovit Adhikari , Jonathan P. Dowling , Hwang Lee

Currently, the only known way to obtain experimental information about the space-time structure of a heavy-ion collision is through 2-particle momentum correlations. Azimuthally sensitive HBT interferometry (Hanbury Brown-Twiss intensity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-01 Evan Frodermann , Ulrich Heinz

Usually HBT effect can be interpreted by classical (intensity fluctuation correlation) and quantum (interference of two-photon probability amplitudes) theories properly at the same time. In this manuscript, we report a deliberately designed…

In the 1950's Hanbury Brown and Twiss showed that one could measure the angular sizes of astronomical radio sources and stars from correlations of signal intensities, rather than amplitudes, in independent detectors. Their subsequent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Gordon Baym

The Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) effect, at the quantum level, is essentially an interference of one particle with another, as opposed to interference of a particle with itself. Conventional treatments of identical particles encounter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-01 Tabish Qureshi , Ushba Rizwan

We establish a decomposition of the intensity-intensity correlation of a scalar optical beam carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) across multiple modes into intermodal contributions, thereby linking it, within the framework of the…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-20 Jyrki Laatikainen , Sushil Pokharel , Olga Korotkova

A Fourier inversion problem lies at the heart of determining spatio-temporal characteristica of the final stage of a heavy ion collision: From the measured two-particle momentum correlations C(p_1,p_2) of identical particles, pions say, a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Urs Achim Wiedemann

Two-photon interference is a fundamental resource for quantum technologies and optical quantum computing, underpinning precision measurements, scalable entanglement distribution, and the operation of photonic circuits and quantum network…

Improved quantum sensing of photons from astronomical objects could provide high resolution observations in the optical benefiting numerous fields, including general relativity, dark matter studies, and cosmology. It has been recently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-03 Paul Stankus , Andrei Nomerotski , Anže Slosar , Stephen Vintskevich

We study effects of a mean-field interaction on the spacetime geometry of the hadron source measured by utilizing the Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) interferometry in the ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. We show how a modification of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-04-05 Koichi Hattori
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