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Two-photon interference effects arise because photons are indistinguishable particles. In the wellknown Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect, the transmission of two photons at a beam splitter interferes destructively with the reflection of both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yuki Kodama , Jonte R. Hance , Holger F. Hofmann

We investigate the interference of Laughlin quasiparticles (QPs) in the fractional quantum Hall regime that are stochastically injected into a Fabry-P\'erot interferometer. We find that the effective Aharonov-Bohm (AB) phase accumulated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Sarthak Girdhar , Edvin G. Idrisov , Thomas L. Schmidt

We consider an electronic analog of the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interferometer, where two single electrons travel along opposite chiral edge states and collide at a Quantum Point Contact. Studying the current noise, we show that because of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Claire Wahl , Jérôme Rech , Thibaut Jonckheere , Thierry Martin

The celebrated Hong, Ou and Mandel (HOM) effect is one of the simplest illustrations of two-particle interference, and is unique to the quantum realm. In the original experiment, two photons arriving simultaneously in the input channels of…

Two-photon intensity correlation of the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect has been intensively studied over the last several decades for one of the most interesting quantum features. According to the particle nature of quantum mechanics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 B. S. Ham

Hong-Ou-Mandel interference, the fact that identical photons that arrive simultaneously on different input ports of a beam splitter bunch into a common output port, can be used to measure optical delays between different paths. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 Yuanyuan Chen , Matthias Fink , Fabian Steinlechner , Juan P. Torres , Rupert Ursin

In this work we demonstrate spectral-temporal correlation measurements of the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference effect with the use of a spectrometer based on a photon-counting camera. This setup allows us to take, within seconds, spectral…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-23 Yingwen Zhang , Duncan England , Andrei Nomerotski , Benjamin Sussman

We provide a tool for measuring the Stokes parameters and the degree of polarization of single photons by employing second order interference, namely the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interferometer. It is shown that the technique is able to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Guilherme P. Temporão , Pedro Ripper , Thiago B. Guerreiro , Gustavo C. do Amaral

Two-photon interference and Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect are relevant tools for quantum metrology and quantum information processing. In optical coherence tomography, HOM effect is exploited to achieve high-resolution measurements with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Z. Mazzotta , S. Cialdi , D. Cipriani , S. Olivares , M. G. A. Paris

We examine the precision limits of Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) timing measurements, as well as precision limits applying to generalized two-photon measurements. As a special case, we consider the use of two-photon measurements using photons with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Kyle M. Jordan , Raphael A. Abrahao , Jeff S. Lundeen

Nonlocal quantum correlation has been the main issue of quantum mechanics over the last century. The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect relates to the two-photon intensity correlation on a beam splitter, resulting in a nonclassical photon-bunching…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 B. S. Ham

Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference, the bunching of indistinguishable photons at a beam splitter, is a staple of quantum optics and lies at the heart of many quantum sensing approaches and recent optical quantum computers. Here, we report a…

We investigate the indistinguishability of polaritons in optically trapped Bose Einstein condensates by implementing Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interferometry and test the limitations of two-polariton interference in the coherent, limit-cycle and…

Quasi-particles are elementary excitations of condensed matter quantum phases. Demonstrating that they keep quantum coherence while propagating is a fundamental issue for their manipulation for quantum information tasks. Here, we consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 I. Taktak , M. Kapfer , J. Nath , P. Roulleau , M. Acciai , J. Splettstoesser , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , D. C. Glattli

We demonstrate deterministic generation of two distinct collective excitations in one atomic ensemble, and we realize the Hong-Ou-Mandel interference between them. Using Rydberg blockade we create single collective excitations in two…

Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect was long believed to be a two-photon interference phenomenon. It describes the fact that two indistinguishable photons mixed at a beam splitter will bunch together to one of the two output modes. Considering the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Li-Kai Yang , Han Cai , Tao Peng , Da-Wei Wang

Anyons are particles with fractional statistics that exhibit a nontrivial change in the wavefunction under an exchange of particles. Anyons can be considered to be a general category of particles that interpolate between fermions and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-03-19 J. Arcila-Forero , R. Franco , J. Silva-Valencia

The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect, an effective two-photon interference phenomenon, is a cornerstone of quantum optics and a key tool for linear optical quantum information processing. While the HOM effect has been extensively studied both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Tareq Jaouni , Xuemei Gu , Mario Krenn , Alessio D'Errico , Ebrahim Karimi

Despite its ubiquity in quantum computation and quantum information, a universally applicable definition of quantum entanglement remains elusive. The challenge is further accentuated when entanglement is associated with other key themes,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Gu Zhang , Changki Hong , Tomer Alkalay , Vladimir Umansky , Moty Heiblum , Igor V. Gornyi , Yuval Gefen

The behavior of a collection of identical particles is intimately linked to the symmetries of their wavefunction under particle exchange. Topological anyons, arising as quasiparticles in low-dimensional systems, interpolate between bosons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Joe Dunlop , Álvaro Tejero , Michalis Skotiniotis , Daniel Manzano