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Quantum Information Processing, from cryptography to computation, based upon linear quantum optical circuit elements relies heavily on the ability offered by the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) Effect to route photons from separate input modes into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Edwin E. Hach , Stefan F. Preble , Ali W. Elshaari , Paul M. Alsing , Michael L. Fanto

The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect is analyzed for photons in a modified Mach-Zehnder setup with two particles experiencing different gravitational potentials, which are later recombined using a beam-splitter. It is found that the HOM effect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-29 Marco Rivera-Tapia , Marcel I. Yáñez Reyes , A. Delgado , G. Rubilar

We expand the two-photon Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect onto a higher-dimensional set of spatial modes and introduce an effect that allows controllable redistribution of quantum states over these modes using directionally unbiased…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Shuto Osawa , David S. Simon , Alexander V. Sergienko

A modified Hong--Ou--Mandel (HOM) interference reveals that the two-photon interference phenomenon can be explained only by the concept of a two-photon wave packet rather than a single-photon one. However, the temporal interferogram in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Baihong Li , Boxin Yuan , Changhua Chen , Xiao Xiang , Runai Quan , Ruifang Dong , Shougang Zhang , Rui-Bo Jin

We show that temporal two-photon interference effects involving the signal and idler photons created by parametric down-conversion can be fully characterized in terms of the variations of two length parameters--called the biphoton…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-11 Anand Kumar Jha , Malcolm N. O'Sullivan , Kam Wai Clifford Chan , Robert W. Boyd

We examine multiphoton interference with a symmetric $SU(N)$ beam splitter $S_N$, an extension of features of the $SU(2)$ 50/50 beam splitter extended Hong-Ou-Mandel (eHOM) effect, whereby one obtains a zero amplitude (probability) for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Paul M. Alsing , Richard J. Birrittella , Peter L. Kaulfuss

Nearly 30 years ago, two-photon interference was observed, marking the beginning of a new quantum era. Indeed, two-photon interference has no classical analogue, giving it a distinct advantage for a range of applications. The peculiarities…

The Hong-Ou-Mandel effect is a paradigmatic quantum phenomenon demonstrating the interference of two indistinguishable photons that are linearly coupled at a 50:50 beam splitter. Here, we transpose such a two-particle quantum interference…

Quantum interference between identical single particles reveals the intrinsic quantum statistic nature of particles, which could not be interpreted through classical physics. Here, we demonstrate quantum interference between non-identical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Keyu Su , Yi Zhong , Shanchao Zhang , Jianfeng Li , Chang-Ling Zou , Yunfei Wang , Hui Yan , Shi-Liang Zhu

When a single beam-splitter receives two beams of bosons described by Fock states (Bose-Einstein condensates at very low temperatures), interesting generalizations of the two-photon Hong-Ou-Mandel effect take place for larger number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-14 F. Laloë , W. J. Mullin

We show that the parity (evenness or oddness) of a nonclassical state of light has a dominant influence on the interference effects at a balanced beam splitter, irrespective of the state initially occupying the other input mode.…

To realize a quantum network based on quantum entanglement swapping, bright and completely autonomous sources are essentially required. Here, we experimentally demonstrate Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) quantum interference between two independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Teak Jeong , Yoon-Seok Lee , Jiho Park , Heonoh Kim , Han Seb Moon

Two-photon interference, known as the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect, has colossal implications for quantum technology. It was observed in 1987 with two photodetectors monitoring outputs of the beamsplitter illuminated by photon pairs: the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Anton N. Vetlugin , Ruixiang Guo , Cesare Soci , Nikolay I. Zheludev

The Hong-Ou-Mandel interference experiment is a fundamental demonstration of nonclassical interference and a basis for many investigations of quantum information. This experiment involves the interference of two photons reaching a symmetric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Nicholas S. DiBrita , Enrique J. Galvez

We report an experimental demonstration of room-temperature Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference at a radio-wave frequency of 120 MHz using conditional build-up of quantum states from classical phase-averaged coherent states. This approach…

Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference of multi-mode frequency entangled states plays a crucial role in quantum metrology. However, as the number of modes increases, the HOM interference pattern becomes increasingly complex, making it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Yan Guo , Zi-Xiang Yang , Zi-Qi Zeng , Chunling Ding , Ryosuke Shimizu , Rui-Bo Jin

We experimentally demonstrated the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference between two photons after visible-to-telecommunication wavelength conversion. In the experiment, we prepared a heralded single photon by using spontaneous parametric…

Optical vector modes (VMs), characterized by spatially varying polarization distributions, have become essential tools across microscopy, metrology, optical trapping, nanophotonics, and optical communications. The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Xiaoqin Gao , Dilip Paneru , Francesco Di Colandrea , Yingwen Zhang , Ebrahim Karimi

The Hong-Ou-Mandel effect lies at the heart of quantum interferometry, having multiple applications in the field of quantum information processing and no classical counterpart. Despite its popularity, only a few works have considered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Olli Siltanen , Tom Kuusela , Jyrki Piilo

Although quantum physics is well understood in inertial reference frames (flat spacetime), a current challenge is the search for experimental evidence of non-trivial or unexpected behaviour of quantum systems in non-inertial frames. Here,…