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Interferometric photon-correlation measurements, which correspond to the second-order intensity cross-correlations between the two output ports of an unbalanced Michelson interferometer, are sensitive to both amplitude and phase…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. Lebreton , I. Abram , R. Braive , I. Sagnes , I. Robert-Philip , A. Beveratos

We show that distances of objects at cosmological distances can be measured directly using interferometry. Our approach to interferometric parallax comes from analysis of 4-point amplitude and intensity correlations that can be generated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pankaj Jain , John P. Ralston

We study matter-wave interferometry in the presence of a stochastic background of gravitational waves. It is shown that if the background has a scale-invariant spectrum over a wide bandwidth (which is expected in a class of inflationary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-28 Andrew M. Steane

Matter-wave interferometry is highly susceptible to inertial acceleration noises arising from the vibration of the experimental apparatus. There are various methods for noise suppression. In this paper, we propose leveraging the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Meng-Zhi Wu , Marko Toroš , Sougato Bose , Anupam Mazumdar

Atom interferometers provide a powerful means of realizing quantum coherent systems with increasingly macroscopic extent in space and time. These systems provide an opportunity for a variety of novel tests of fundamental physics, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-13 Jonathan Kunjummen , Daniel Carney , Jacob M. Taylor

High-precision measurements are crucial for testing the fundamental laws of nature and for advancing the technological frontier. Clock interferometry, where particles with an internal clock are coherently split and recombined along two…

The phase of matter waves depends on proper time and is therefore susceptible to special-relativistic (kinematic) and gravitational (redshift) time dilation. Hence, it is conceivable that atom interferometers measure general-relativistic…

I suggest that measurements of intensity fluctuations caused by classical wave interactions can be used to find unresolved gravitational lenses and determine time delays of essentially arbitrary length among the images formed by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ermanno F. Borra

Based on recent measurements on the charge-to-mass ratios of proton and anti-proton, we study constraints on the parameters of noncommutative phase space. We find that while the limit on the parameter of coordinate noncommutativity is weak,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-20 Kai Ma

Atomic clock interferometers are a valuable tool to test the interface between quantum theory and gravity, in particular via the measurement of gravitational time dilation in the quantum regime. Here, we investigate whether gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Carlo Cepollaro , Flaminia Giacomini , Matteo G. A. Paris

Intensity interferometry removes the stringent requirements on mechanical precision and atmospheric corrections that plague all amplitude interferometry techniques at the cost of severely limited sensitivity. A new idea we recently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Aviv Ofir , Erez N. Ribak

We consider the possibility to measure the quantum decoherence using gravitational wave interferometers. Gravitational wave interferometers create the superposition state of photons and measure the interference of the photon state. If the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-08-15 Yasushi Mino

Using the theory of imaging with partially coherent light, we derive general expressions for different kinds of interferometric setups like double slit, shift and mirror interference. We show that in all cases the interference patterns…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-17 Heinrich Stolz , Maria Dietl Rico Schwartz , Dirk Semkat

Intense laser fields have been proposed as a means to generate light-induced gravitational effects, providing a novel approach to investigate gravity and its coupling to electromagnetism in a controlled laboratory setting. In this article,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-09 F. Fillion-Gourdeau , S. MacLean

We work out in the forward limit and up to order $e^6$ in perturbation theory the collinear divergences. In this kinematical regime we discover new collinear divergences that we argue can be only cancelled using quantum interference with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Cesar Gomez , Raoul Letschka

This chapter reviews recent experiments on matter wave interferometry with large molecules. Starting from an elementary introduction to matter wave physics we discuss far-field diffraction and near-field interferometry with thermally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-22 Markus Arndt , Klaus Hornberger

Interferometric measurements of high-harmonics induced by multiple laser fields in an emerging field of research that promises optimized yield of harmonics, and time and space-resolved nonlinear spectroscopy. Most of the measurements have…

A relation between the photon mass, its frequency, $\nu$, and the deflection parameter, $\gamma$, determined by experimentalists (which characterizes the contribution of space curvature to gravitational deflection) is found. This amazing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-27 A. Accioly , J. Helayël-Neto , E. Scatena

It has been recently suggested that optical interferometers may not require a phase-stable optical link between the stations if instead sources of quantum-mechanically entangled pairs could be provided to them, enabling extra-long baselines…

It has been recently suggested that possible effects of Chern-Simons gravity on a quantum interferometer are dependent on the latitude and direction of the interferometer on Earth in orbital motion around Sun. Continuing work initiated in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Hiroki Okawara , Kei Yamada , Hideki Asada