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Essential for building quantum networks over remote independent nodes, the indistinguishability of photons has been extensively studied by observing the coincidence dip in the Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer. However, indistinguishability is…

This paper presents how photonics associated with new arising detection technologies is able to provide fully integrated instrument for coherent beam combination applied to astrophysical interferometry. The feasibility and operation of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Pierre Kern , Etienne Le Coärer , Pierre Benech

We present a preliminary laboratory test of a setup designed to measure Hanbury Brown and Twiss-type intensity correlations from a chaotic light source using five spectral channels simultaneously. After averaging the zero-delay correlation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 S Tolila , G Labeyrie , R Kaiser , J. -P Rivet , W Guerin

The photon statistics and bunching of a semiconductor laser with external optical feedback are investigated experimentally and theoretically. In a chaotic regime, the photon number distribution is measured and undergoes a transition from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Yanqiang Guo , Chunsheng Peng , Yulin Ji , Pu Li , Yuanyuan Guo , Xiaomin Guo

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

Engineering and studying few-electron states in ballistic conductors is a key step towards understanding entanglement in quantum electronic systems. In this Letter, we introduce the intrinsic two-electron coherence of an electronic source…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 E. Thibierge , D. Ferraro , B. Roussel , C. Cabart , A. Marguerite , G. Fève , P. Degiovanni

Low energy elastic scattering between clouds of Bose condensed atoms leads to the well known s-wave halo with atoms emerging in all directions from the collision zone. In this paper we discuss the emergence of Hanbury Brown and Twiss…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Klaus Molmer , A. Perrin , V. Krachmalnicoff , V. Leung , D. Boiron , A. Aspect , C. I. Westbrook

Quality of individual photons and their ability to interfere is traditionally tested by measuring the Hong-Ou-Mandel photon bunching effect. However, this phase insensitive measurement only tests the particle aspect of the quantum…

I review recent applications of two-particle intensity interferometry in high energy physics, concentrating on relativistic heavy ion collisions. By measuring hadronic single-particle spectra and two-particle correlations in hadron-hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulrich Heinz

We develop a rigorous mathematically consistent description of PT symmetric optical systems by using second quantization. We demonstrate the possibility of significant spontaneous generation of photons in PT symmetric systems. Further we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 G. S. Agarwal , Kenan Qu

Developing advanced technologies for sensing and imaging biological samples is crucial for medical applications, making quantum-enhanced methods particularly valuable, as they promise significant benefits over classical techniques. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Cristofero Oglialoro , Enno Giese

The commonly assumed straight link between boson bunching and particle indistinguishability in quantum interferometry has recently been challenged [Nat. Photon. 17, 702 (2023)]. Exploiting the connection between quantum optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-01 Léo Pioge , Benoit Seron , Leonardo Novo , Nicolas J. Cerf

Interferometers provide a highly sensitive means to investigate and exploit the coherence properties of light in metrology applications. However, interferometers come in various forms and exploit different properties of the optical states…

Peripheral heavy ion reactions at ultra relativistic energies have large angular momentum that can be studied via two particle correlations using the Differential Hanbury Brown and Twiss method. In the present work we analyze the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-07-29 L. P. Csernai , S. Velle

Recent measurements in two-particle correlations in $p$+Pb collisions suggest collective behavior reminiscent of that observed in Pb+Pb. Femtoscopic measurements may provide useful insight on this behavior because they image the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-01-30 Markus K. Koehler

The second order photon correlation g^(2)(tau) of a chaotic optical-feedback semiconductor laser is precisely measured using a Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometer. The accurate g^(2)(tau) with non-zero delay time is obtained experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Xiaomin Guo , Chen Cheng , Tong Liu , Xin Fang , Yanqiang Guo

We demonstrate optical interferometry beyond the limits imposed by the photon wavelength using 'triggered' entangled photon pairs from a semiconductor quantum dot. Interference fringes of the entangled biphoton state reveals a periodicity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-28 R. M. Stevenson , A. J. Hudson , R. J. Young , P. Atkinson , K. Cooper , D. A. Ritchie , A. J. Shields

The ability to manipulate and measure the time-frequency structure of quantum light is useful for information processing and metrology. Measuring this structure is also important when developing quantum light sources with high modal purity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 G. S. Thekkadath , B. A. Bell , R. B. Patel , M. S. Kim , I. A. Walmsley

We present a novel atom interferometer configuration that combines large momentum transfer with the enhancement of an optical resonator for the purpose of measuring gravitational strain in the horizontal directions. Using Bragg diffraction…

Advancements in physics are often motivated/accompanied by advancements in our precision measurements abilities. The current generation of atomic and optical interferometers is limited by shot noise, a fundamental limit when estimating a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Luca Pezze' , Augusto Smerzi