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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

Motivated by the experimental search for "GHz nonclassical light", we identify the conditions under which current fluctuations in a narrow constriction generate sub-Poissonian radiation. Antibunched electrons generically produce bunched…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. W. J. Beenakker , H. Schomerus

Electrical current fluctuations in a single-channel quantum point contact can produce photons (at frequency omega close to the applied voltage V x e/hbar) which inherit the sub-Poissonian statistics of the electrons. We extend the existing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-31 I. C. Fulga , F. Hassler , C. W. J. Beenakker

Interference is fundamental to wave dynamics and quantum mechanics. The quantum wave properties of particles are exploited in metrology using atom interferometers, allowing for high-precision inertia measurements [1, 2]. Furthermore, the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-09-14 Christian Gross , Tilman Zibold , Eike Nicklas , Jerome Esteve , Markus K. Oberthaler

We numerically show that time delayed coherent feedback controls the statistical output characteristics of driven quantum emitters. Quantum feedback allows to enhance or suppress a wide range of classical and nonclassical features of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 Yiping Lu , Nicolas L. Naumann , Javier Cerrillo , Qing Zhao , Andreas Knorr , Alexander Carmele

Based on the measurement of quantum correlation functions, the quantum statistical properties of spectral measurements are studied for broadband radiation fields. The spectral filtering of light before its detection is compared with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-15 P. Grünwald , D. Vasylyev , J. Häggblad , W. Vogel

Numerous inequalities involving moments of integrated intensities and revealing nonclassicality and entanglement in bipartite optical fields are derived using the majorization theory, non-negative polynomials, the matrix approach, as well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Jan Perina , Ievgen I. Arkhipov , Vaclav Michalek , Ondrej Haderka

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

Photons, by nature, typically do not exhibit interactions with each other. Creating photon-photon interactions holds immense importance in both fundamental physics and quantum technologies. Currently, such interactions have only been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 Mengdi Zhao , Yunkai Wang , Shanhui Fan , Kejie Fang

Quantum interferometric sensing plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications, including quantum metrology, quantum imaging, and quantum lithography, where minute phase shifts carry valuable physical information. The strength of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Samata Gokhale , Netanel P. Yaish , Michal Natan , Saar Levin , Yogesh Dandekar , Avi Pe'er

We use photon counters to obtain the joint photon counting statistics from twin-beam non-degenerate parametric down conversion, and we demonstrate directly, and with no auxiliary assumptions, that these twin beams are nonclassical.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edo Waks , Barry Sanders , Eleni Diamanti , Yoshihisa Yamamoto

One of the main characteristics of optical imaging systems is the spatial resolution, which is restricted by the diffraction limit to approximately half the wavelength of the incident light. Along with the recently developed classical…

We show that the essential physics of the Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) and the thermal light ghost imaging experiments is the same, i.e., due to the intensity fluctuations of the thermal light. However, in the ghost imaging experiments, a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Li-Gang Wang , Sajid Qamar , Shi-Yao Zhu , M. Suhail Zubairy

Interference of single-photon wave packets at a beam splitter usually leads to an anticorrelation of the light intensity in the two output ports of the beam splitter. The effect may be regarded as ``bunching'' of the photons at the beam…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Gruner , D. -G. Welsch

The Hanbury Brown--Twiss (HBT) effect in two-particle correlations is a fundamental wave phenomenon that occurs at the sensitive elements of detectors; it is one of the few processes in elementary particle detection that depends on the wave…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Alejandro Ayala , Gordon Baym , James L. Popp

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

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

Nano- and micromechanical solid-state quantum devices have become a focus of attention. Reliably generating nonclassical states of their motion is of interest both for addressing fundamental questions about macroscopic quantum phenomena and…

Photon statistics is one of the key properties of the photon state for the study of quantum coherence and quantum information techniques. Here, we discuss the photon indistinguishability induced bunching effect which can significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-31 Ao Shen , Bo Du , Ze-Hao Wang , Yang Dong , Xiang-Dong Chen , Guang-Can Guo , Fang-Wen Sun

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