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We have measured antinormally ordered Hanbury-Brown--Twiss correlations for coherent states of electromagnetic field by using stimulated parametric down-conversion process. Photons were detected by stimulated emission, rather than by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Koji Usami , Yoshihiro Nambu , Bao-Sen Shi , Akihisa Tomita , Kazuo Nakamura

The basic principles of the correlation femtoscopy, including its correspondence to the Hanbury Brown and Twiss intensity interferometry, are re-examined. The main subject of the paper is an analysis of the correlation femtoscopy when the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-29 Yu. M. Sinyukov , V. M. Shapoval

We study the effects of mesonic final state interactions on the Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) intensity interferometry for mesons in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. Modification of the one-body amplitude of emitted mesons while…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-02-02 K. Hattori , T. Matsui

A brief review is given on the discovery and the first five decades of the Hanbury Brown - Twiss effect and its generalized applications in high energy nuclear and particle physics, that includes a meta-review. Interesting and inspiring new…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 T. Csorgo

In the 1950's Hanbury Brown and Twiss showed that one could measure the angular sizes of astronomical radio sources and stars from correlations of signal intensities, rather than amplitudes, in independent detectors. Their subsequent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Gordon Baym

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

The interactions of particles with medium may lead to a nonzero in-medium mass width of the particles and cause them to have different masses in the medium. In this letter, we investigate the influence of the in-medium mass width on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-23 Peng-Zhi Xu , Wei-Ning Zhang

In heavy ion collisions resonances can create strong non-Gaussian effects in the 2-pion correlation data. Hence, the commonly used Gaussian fit parameters do not fully characterize these correlators. We suggest a different set of HBT…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Urs Achim Wiedemann , Ulrich Heinz

Using one- and two-body density matrices, we calculate the spatial and momentum distributions, two-particle Hanbury-Brown Twiss (HBT) correlation functions, and the chaotic parameter $\lambda$ in HBT interferometry for the systems of boson…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-11-20 Jie Liu , Peng Ru , Wei-Ning Zhang , Cheuk-Yin Wong

We present a study of an Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) interferometer realized with anyons. Such a device can directly probe entanglement and fractional statistics of initially uncorrelated particles. We calculate HBT cross-correlations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Gabriele Campagnano , Oded Zilberberg , Igor V. Gornyi , Dmitri E. Feldman , Andrew C. Potter , Yuval Gefen

We use a multi-phase transport (AMPT) model to study multi-pion and multi-kaon Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) correlations for the partially coherent particle-emitting sources in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. A density-dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-19 Shi-Yao Wang , Jun-Ting Ye , Wei-Ning Zhang

We discuss symmetry constraints on the azimuthal oscillations of two-particle correlation (Hanbury Brown--Twiss interferometry) radii for non-central collisions between equal spherical nuclei. We also propose a new method for correcting in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 U. W. Heinz , A. Hummel , M. A. Lisa , U. A. Wiedemann

We discuss the elementary physics of the final state Coulomb interactions in Hanbury-Brown Twiss interferometry, showing -- with explicit comparison to E877 data for $\pi^+\pi^-$ and $\pi^\pm p$ -- that the Coulomb corrections in the pair…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Baym , P. Braun-Munzinger

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

We discuss experiments to produce and detect atom correlations in a degenerate or nearly degenerate gas of neutral atoms. First we treat the atomic analog of the celebrated Hanbury Brown Twiss experiment, in which atom correlations result…

Understanding the boundary between classical and nonclassical phenomena is important for both fundamental researches in quantum optics and applications in quantum information. One of the most interesting research directions in this field is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Yu Gu , Yuhan Ma , Yiqi Song , Meixue Chen , Hui Chen , Huaibin Zheng , Yuchen He , Yu Zhou , Fuli Li , Zhuo Xu , Jianbin Liu

Recently, the ALICE collaboration analyzed the three- and four-pion Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) correlations in Pb-Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The measured suppressions of three- and four-pion correlations may originate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-08 Ghulam Bary , Peng Ru , Wei-Ning Zhang

We present the first study of the statistics of GHz photons in quantum circuits, using Hanbury-Brown and Twiss correlations. The superpoissonian and poissonian photon statistics of thermal and coherent sources respectively made of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Gabelli , Laure-Helene Reydellet , Gwendal Feve , Jean-Marc Berroir , Bernard Placais , Patrice Roche , Christian Glattli

In the light of the recent analogs of the Hanbury--Brown and Twiss experiments in mesoscopic beam splitters, negative current noise correlations are recalled to be the consequence of an exclusion principle. Here, positive (bosonic)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Julien Torres , Thierry Martin

Employing NEXUS, one of the most recent simulation programs for heavy ions collisions, we investigate in detail the Hanbury-Twiss correlation function for charged pions for reactions 158 GeV Pb+Pb. For this study we supplement the standard…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 F. Gastineau , J. Aichelin