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We consider the situation when the signal propagating through each arm of an interferometer has a complicated multi-mode structure. We find the relation between the particle-entanglement and the possibility to surpass the shot-noise limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 J. Chwedenczuk

In present work we study informational measures for the problem of interference of quantum particles. We demonstrate that diffraction picture in the far field, which is given by probability density of particle momentum distribution,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-31 Yu. I. Bogdanov , A. Yu. Bogdanov , S. A. Nuyanzin , A. K. Gavrichenko

We introduce a simple experiment involving a double-slit interferometer by which one can learn basic concepts of quantum interference such as which-path marking, quantum erasers, and geometric phases. Each of them exhibits seemingly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-18 H. Kobayashi , S. Tamate , T. Nakanishi , K. Sugiyama , M. Kitano

Although interference is a classical-wave phenomenon, the superposition principle, which underlies interference of individual particles, is at the heart of quantum physics. An interaction-free measurements (IFM) harnesses the wave-particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Xiao-song Ma , Xiang Guo , Carsten Schuck , King Y. Fong , Liang Jiang , Hong X. Tang

We address the problem of completely characterizing multi-particle states including loss of information to unobserved degrees of freedom. In systems where non-classical interference plays a role, such as linear-optics quantum gates, such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. B. A. Adamson , L. K. Shalm , M. W. Mitchell , A. M. Steinberg

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…

Photon distinguishability is a key factor limiting quantum interference in photonic devices, directly impacting the performance of protocols such as Boson Sampling and photonic quantum computing. We present a basis-independent framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Emilio Annoni , Stephen C. Wein

Interferometry has underpinned a century of discoveries, ranging from the disproval of the ether theory to the detection of gravitational waves, offering insights into wave dynamics with unrivalled precision through the measurement of phase…

We have measured quantum interference between two single microwave photons trapped in a superconducting resonator, whose frequencies are initially about 6 GHz apart. We accomplish this by use of a parametric frequency conversion process…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 François Nguyen , Eva Zakka-Bajjani , Raymond W. Simmonds , José Aumentado

Optimal measurement scheme with an efficient data processing is important in quantum-enhanced interferometry. Here we prove that for a general binary outcome measurement, the simplest data processing based on inverting the average signal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-11 X. M. Feng , G. R. Jin , W. Yang

Interference provides a fundamental mechanism for generating and manipulating entanglement in many-body quantum systems. Here, we develop an interference framework in which the nonlinear dynamics of collective spin-$\tfrac{1}{2}$ ensembles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Le Bin Ho , Vu Xuan Tung Duong , Nozomu Takahashi , Hiroaki Matsueda

When subjected to monochromatic incident light a nanoparticle will emit light which then interferes with the incident beam. With sufficient contrast and sufficiently close to the particle this interference pattern may be recorded with a…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-26 T. G. Myers , H. Ribera , W. S. Bacsa

In interferometers, the more information about the quanta's path available in an ancillary quantum system (AQS), the less visibility the interference has. By use of Shannon entropy, we try to compare the amount of which-phase information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Soroush Khademi , Ali Reza Bahrampour

In this article we try to describe the physics of a standard optical interferometer fed by "quantum" photons in terms of primitive, nevertheless accurate formulation. We derive explicit interferene patterns and show how they vary depending…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Fujio Shimizu

In this work, firstly, we propose how to experimentally demonstrate the single photon steering phenomenon in a simple way. The quantum steering phenomenon was discovered by Erwin Schrodinger, who reason that the laws of quantum mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 LM Arévalo Aguilar , Rolando Velázquez García

We show that it is possible to generate a novel single-photon fringe pattern by using two spatially separated identical bi-photon sources. The fringes are similar to the ones observed in a Michelson interferometer and possess certain…

We report experimental observations of correlated-photon statistics in the single-photon detection rate. The usual quantum interference in a two-photon polarization interferometer always accompanies a dip in the single detector counting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yoon-Ho Kim , Warren P. Grice

Two-mode squeezing is central to entangled-photon generation and nonlinear interferometry, yet standard perturbative low-gain treatments and Gaussian formalisms can obscure the interference of photon-number amplitudes, especially in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Xuemei Gu , Carlos Ruiz-Gonzalez , Mario Krenn

Determination of the path taken by a quantum particle leads to a suppression of interference and to a classical behavior. We employ here a quantum 'which path' detector to perform accurate path determination in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 I. Neder , M. Heiblum , D. Mahalu , V. Umansky

One of the milestones of quantum mechanics is Bohr's complementarity principle. It states that a single quantum can exhibit a particle-like \emph{or} a wave-like behaviour, but never both at the same time. These are mutually exclusive and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Auccaise , R. M. Serra , J. G. Filgueiras , R. S. Sarthour , I. S. Oliveira , L. C. Céleri