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We present a study of an Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) interferometer realized with anyons. Such a device can directly probe entanglement and fractional statistics of initially uncorrelated particles. We calculate HBT cross-correlations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Gabriele Campagnano , Oded Zilberberg , Igor V. Gornyi , Dmitri E. Feldman , Andrew C. Potter , Yuval Gefen

Many modern millimeter and submillimeter (``mm-wave'') telescopes for astronomy are deploying more detectors by increasing detector pixel density, and with the rise of lithographed detector architectures and high-throughput readout…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-23 Charles A. Hill , Akito Kusaka

We investigate the measurement of Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) photon correlations as an experimental tool to discriminate different sources of photon enhancement, which are proposed to simultaneously reproduce the direct photon yield and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-02 Oscar Garcia-Montero , Nicole Löher , Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Jürgen Berges , Klaus Reygers

We study the effects of a collective flow and multiple scattering on two-particle correlation measurements in Hanbury-Brown-Twiss intensity interferometry. We find that under a collective flow the effective source distribution in a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Cheuk-Yin Wong

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

Biphoton frequency combs (BFCs) are promising quantum sources for large-scale and high-dimensional quantum information and networking systems. In this context, the spectral purity of individual frequency bins will be critical for realizing…

Measuring the statistical correlations of individual quantum objects provides an excellent way to study complex quantum systems. Ultracold molecules represent a powerful platform for quantum science due to their rich and controllable…

Hanbury Brown--Twiss interferometry (HBT) provides crucial insights into both the space-time structure and the momentum-space evolution of ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions at freeze-out. In particular, the dependence of the HBT radii on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-18 Christopher Plumberg

The quantum theory of optical coherence is applied to the scrutiny of the statistical properties of the relic inflaton quanta. After adapting the description of the quantized scalar and tensor modes of the geometry to the analysis of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 Massimo Giovannini

The rich physics exhibited by random optical wave fields permitted Hanbury Brown and Twiss to unveil fundamental aspects of light. Furthermore, it has been recognized that optical vortices are ubiquitous in random light and that the phase…

We propose a Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometer for a $\nu=2/5$ fractional quantum Hall edge system, in which quasiparticles tunnel between two co-propagating edge modes. In contrast to the previously studied anyonic Fabry-P\'{e}rot and…

We propose a novel approach to probe primordial inhomogeneity in hot and dense matter which could be realized in non-central heavy-ion collisions. Although the Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) interferometry is commonly used to infer the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-12 Kenji Fukushima , Yoshimasa Hidaka , Katsuya Inoue , Kenta Shigaki , Yorito Yamaguchi

The transverse momentum dependence of Hanbury-Brown/Twiss (HBT) interferometry radii for 2-body correlation functions provides experimental access to the collective dynamics in heavy-ion collisions. We present an analytical approximation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Urs Achim Wiedemann , Pierre Scotto , Ulrich Heinz

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

An important tool in studying the sub-femtoscale spacetime structure of matter in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions is Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) intensity interferometry of identical particles in the final state of such collisions. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-11 James Daniel Brandenburg , Haowu Duan , Zhoudunming Tu , Raju Venugopalan , Zhangbu Xu

Large spatial density fluctuations in high-energy heavy-ion collisions can come from many sources: initial transverse density fluctuations, non-central collisions, phase transitions, surface tension, and fragmentations. The common presence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Cheuk-Yin Wong , Wei-Ning Zhang

The observation of the Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) effect with thermal light marked the birth of quantum optics. All the thermal sources considered to date did not feature quantum signatures of light, as they consisted of independent…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-15 Ohad Lib , Yaron Bromberg

Two-photon interference is an interesting quantum phenomenon that is usually captured in two distinct types of experiments, namely the Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) experiment and the Hong- Ou-Mandel (HOM) experiment. While the HBT experiment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Kamran Nazir , Tabish Qureshi

The analysis of meson correlations by Hanbury-Brown--Twiss interferometry is tested with a simple model of meson production by resonance decay. We derive conditions which should be satisfied in order to relate the measured momentum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 G. F. Bertsch , P. Danielewicz , M. Herrmann

Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) correlations for charged pions in central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=2.4 - 7.7~\text{GeV}$ (corresponding to beam kinetic energies in the fixed target frame from…