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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…

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

Hanbury-Brown--Twiss interferometry is a technique which yields effective widths (i.e., "HBT radii") of homogeneity regions in the fireballs produced in heavy ion collisions. Because the initial conditions of these collisions are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 Christopher Plumberg , Ulrich Heinz

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

Understanding the boundary between classical and nonclassical phenomena is important for both fundamental researches in quantum optics and applications in quantum information. One of the most interesting research directions in this field is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Yu Gu , Yuhan Ma , Yiqi Song , Meixue Chen , Hui Chen , Huaibin Zheng , Yuchen He , Yu Zhou , Fuli Li , Zhuo Xu , Jianbin Liu

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…

To extract information on hadron production dynamics in the ultrarelativistic heavy ion collision, the space-time structure of the hadron source has been measured using Hanbury Brown and Twiss interferometry. We study the distortion of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-03 Koichi Hattori

In this report we give a detailed account on Hanbury Brown/Twiss (HBT) particle interferometric methods for relativistic heavy-ion collisions. These exploit identical two-particle correlations to gain access to the space-time geometry and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 Urs Achim Wiedemann , Ulrich Heinz

We report the first intensity correlation measured with star light since Hanbury Brown and Twiss' historical experiments. The photon bunching $g^{(2)}(\tau, r=0)$, obtained in the photon counting regime, was measured for 3 bright stars,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-14 W. Guerin , A. Dussaux , M. Fouché , G. Labeyrie , J. -P. Rivet , D. Vernet , F. Vakili , R. 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

Two-particle Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) interferometry is an important probe for understanding the space-time structure of particle emission sources in high energy heavy ion collisions. We present the comparative studies of HBT radii in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-07-17 Debasish Das

The Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect (HBT) is described by numerical and analytical modeling, as well as experimentally, using sound waves and easily available instrumentation. An interesting phenomenon that has often been considered too…

Physics Education · Physics 2022-01-12 Arnt Inge Vistnes , Joakim Bergli

The original intensity interferometers were instruments built in the 1950s and 60s by Hanbury Brown and collaborators, achieving milli-arcsec resolutions in visible light without optical-quality mirrors. They exploited a then-novel physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-05 Vinay Malvimat , Olaf Wucknitz , Prasenjit Saha

I will present a review of the field of Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometry in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The "HBT puzzle" is explored in detail, emphasizing recent theoretical attempts to understand the persisting puzzle. I also…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-08-23 Dan Magestro

We discuss potential attainability by the Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) interferometry of photons to probe the spacetime geometry of the primordial plasma created by ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. A possible effect to distort the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-06-15 Kazunori Itakura , Koichi Hattori

As first demonstrated by Hanbury Brown and Twiss, it is possible to observe interference between independent light sources by measuring correlations in their intensities rather than their amplitudes. In this work, we apply this concept of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-07 G. S. Thekkadath , D. England , F. Bouchard , Y. Zhang , M. S. Kim , B. Sussman

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

In a pioneering experiment, Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) demonstrated that noise correlations could be used to probe the properties of a (bosonic) particle source through quantum statistics; the effect relies on quantum interference…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon Foelling , Fabrice Gerbier , Artur Widera , Olaf Mandel , Tatjana Gericke , Immanuel Bloch

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

Two-photon superbunching of pseudothermal light is observed with single-mode continuous-wave laser light in a linear optical system. By adding more two-photon paths via three rotating ground glasses,g(2)(0) = 7.10 is experimentally…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-11 Bin Bai , Jianbin Liu , Yu Zhou , Huaibin Zheng , Hui Chen , Songlin Zhang , Yuchen He , Fuli Li , Zhuo Xu