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We establish a decomposition of the intensity-intensity correlation of a scalar optical beam carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) across multiple modes into intermodal contributions, thereby linking it, within the framework of the…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-20 Jyrki Laatikainen , Sushil Pokharel , Olga Korotkova

Quantum correlation microscopy is an emerging technique for improving optical resolution. By taking advantage of the quantum statistics from single-photon fluorophores, more information about the emitters (including number and location) is…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-19 Jaret J. Vasquez-Lozano , Qiang Sun , Shuo Li , Andrew D. Greentree

In traditional Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) schemes, the thermal intensity-intensity correlations are phase insensitive. Here we propose a modified HBT scheme with phase conjugation to demonstrate the phase-sensitive and nonfactorizable…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-21 Li-Gang Wang , M. Al-Amri , M. Suhail Zubairy

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…

This paper discusses our recent work on developing the matter wave analogs to the Hanbury Brown Twiss experiment. We discuss experiments using cold atoms, both bosons and fermions, both coherent and incoherent. Simple concepts from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-15 Christoph I Westbrook , Denis Boiron

We propose to use multi-photon interferences from statistically independent light sources in combination with linear optical detection techniques to enhance the resolution in imaging. Experimental results with up to five independent thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-15 Steffen Oppel , Thomas Büttner , Pieter Kok , Joachim von Zanthier

The PHENIX Collaboration has reported third-order harmonic oscillations of the source radius parameters when measuring the Hanbury Brown-Twiss correlation function for charged hadrons relative to the triangular flow angle. We explore…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-11-28 Christopher J Plumberg , Chun Shen , Ulrich W Heinz

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

The use of electron beams is ubiquitous; electron microscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy, electron lithography, and electron diffractometry all use well-collimated and focused beams. On the other hand, quantum degenerate electron beams…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Sam Keramati , Eric R. Jones , Jeremy Armstrong , Herman Batelaan

Superbunching pseudothermal light has important applications in studying the second- and higher-order interference of light in quantum optics. Unlike the photon statistics of thermal or pseudothermal light is well understood, the photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Chaoqi Wei , Jianbin Liu , Xuexing Zhang , Rui Zhuang , Yu Zhou , Hui Chen , Yuchen He , Huaibin Zheng , Zhuo Xu

I discuss two-particle intensity interferometry as a method to extract from measured 1- and 2-particle momentum spectra information on the space-time geometry and dynamics of the particle emitting source. Particular attention is given to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulrich Heinz

Multi-boson symmetrization effects on two-particle Bose-Einstein interferometry are studied for ensembles with arbitrary multiplicity distributions. In the general case one finds interesting residual correlations which require a modified…

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Identifying signatures of quantum coherent behaviour in photoactive systems that are maintained in stationary states away from thermal equilibrium is an open problem of wide interest in a variety of physical scenarios, including single…

Intensity interferometry (Hanbury Brown - Twiss effect) is an interesting and useful concept that is usually presented as a manifestation of the quantum statistics of indistinguishable particles. Here, by exploiting possibilities for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 Jordan Cotler , Frank Wilczek

We demonstrate experimentally Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) interferometry at a hard X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) on a sample diffraction patterns. This is different from the traditional approach when HBT interferometry requires direct…

The experimental study of the second-order interference with fermions is much less than the one with bosons since it is much more difficult to do experiments with fermions than with photons. Based on the conclusion that the behavior of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 Jianbin Liu , Hui Chen , Yu Zhou , Huaibin Zheng , Fu-li Li , Zhuo Xu

It is well known that direct observation of interference and diffraction pattern in the intensity distribution requires a spatially coherent source. Optical waves emitted from portions beyond the coherence area possess statistically…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Su-Heng Zhang , Lu Gao , Jun Xiong , Li-Juan Feng , De-Zhong Cao , Kaige Wang

Since pioneering works of Hanbury-Brown and Twiss, intensity-intensity correlations have been widely used in astronomical systems, for example to detect binary stars. They reveal statistics effects and two-particle interference, and offer a…

We study continuous variable coherence of phase-dependent squeezed state based on an extended Hanbury Brown-Twiss scheme. High-order coherence is continuously varied by adjusting squeezing parameter $r$, displacement $\alpha $, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Yanqiang Guo , Haojie Zhang , Xiaomin Guo , Yuchi Zhang , Tiancai Zhang