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I report the result of a which-way experiment based on Young's double-slit experiment. It reveals which slit photons go through while retaining the (self) interference of all the photons collected. The idea is to image the slits using a…

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Entanglement and interference are both hallmark effects of quantum physics. Particularly rich dynamics arise when multiple (at least partially) indistinguishable particles are subjected to either of these phenomena. By combining both…

Quantum interferometry based on induced-coherence phenomena has demonstrated the possibility of undetected-photon measurements. Perturbation in the optical path of probe photons can be detected by interference signals generated by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Eun Mi Kim , Sun Kyung Lee , Sang Min Lee , Myeong Soo Kang , Hee Su Park

We present the emergence of coherent two-photon backscattering, a manifestation of weak localization, in multiple scattering of maximally entangled pure and fully mixed two-photon states and examine the effect of entanglement and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Nooshin M. Estakhri , Theodore B. Norris

Two-photon interference with independent classical sources, in which superposition of two indistinguishable two-photon paths plays a key role, is of limited visibility of interference fringes with a maximum value of 50%. By using a…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-21 Peilong Hong , Lei Xu , Zhaohui Zhai , Guoquan Zhang

This paper considers a theoretical model of the double-slit experiment with electrons whose paths are monitored. This monitoring, inspired by a recent text by Maudlin, is performed by the Coulomb scattering of the electron by a proton. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Frederick W. Strauch

Properties of entangled photon pairs generated in spontaneous parametric down-conversion are investigated in interference experiments. Strong energy correlations are demonstrated in a direct way. If a signal photon is detected behind a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Jan Soubusta , Jan Perina , Martin Hendrych , Ondrej Haderka , Pavel Trojek , Miloslav Dusek

Spatial interference of quantum mechanical particles exhibits a fundamental feature of quantum mechanics. A two-mode entangled state of N particles known as N00N state can give rise to non-classical interference. We report the first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yong-Su Kim , Osung Kwon , Sang Min Lee , Heonoh Kim , Sang-Kyung Choi , Hee Su Park , Yoon-Ho Kim

We study the generalized Young's double-slit interference for the beam produced in the spontaneously parametric down-conversion (SPDC). We find that the sub-wavelength lithography can occur macroscopically in both the two-photon intensity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 De-Zhong Cao , Kaige Wang

We construct a linear optics measurement process to determine the entanglement measure, named \emph{I-concurrence}, of a set of $4 \times 4$ dimensional two-photon entangled pure states produced in the optical parametric down conversion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-20 F. W. Sun , J. M. Cai , J. S. Xu , G. Chen , B. H. Liu , C. F. Li , Z. W. Zhou , G. C. Guo

We report two-photon interference with continuous-wave multi-mode coherent light. We show that the two-photon interference, in terms of the detection time difference, reveals two-photon beating fringes with the visibility $V = 0.5$. While…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Yong-Su Kim , Oliver Slattery , Paulina S. Kuo , Xiao Tang

Using two crystals for spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a parallel setup, we observe two-photon interference with high visibility. The high visibility is consistent with complementarity and the absence of which-path information.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-18 Ralf Menzel , Axel Heuer , Peter W. Milonni

Detailed investigations of single photon 1st-order interferences of separated emitters allow for analyzing the role of the mode function in quantum optics. In an earlier Young's double slit experiment using a higher spatial light mode some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Axel Heuer , Sebastian Raabe , Ralf Menzel

While two-photon Hong-Ou-Mandel interference visibility has become a standard metric for single-photon sources, many optical quantum technologies require the generation and manipulation of larger photonic states. To date, efficiency…

Integrated entangled photon-pair sources are key elements for enabling large-scale quantum photonic solutions, and addresses the challenges of both scaling-up and stability. Here we report the first demonstration of an energy-time entangled…

Photonic quantum technology provides a viable route to quantum communication, quantum simulation, and quantum information processing. Recent progress has seen the realisation of boson sampling using 20 single-photons and quantum key…

Entanglement is a fundamental feature of quantum mechanics, considered a key resource in quantum information processing. Measuring entanglement is an essential step in a wide range of applied and foundational quantum experiments. When a…

We report the results of two experiments performed with two-photon light, produced via collinear degenerate optical spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC), in which both second-order (one-photon) and fourth-order (two-photon)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Timothy Yarnall , Ayman F. Abouraddy , Bahaa E. A. Saleh , Malvin C. Teich

We report an experiment in which two-photon interference occurs between degenerate single photons that never meet. The two photons travel in opposite directions through our fibre-optic interferometer and interference occurs when the photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-11 A. J. Bennett , D. G. Gevaux , Z. L. Yuan , A. J. Shields , P. Atkinson , D. A. Ritchie

Fusing photon pairs creates an arena where indistinguishability can exist between two two-photon amplitudes contributing to the same joint photodetection event. This two-photon interference has been extensively utilized in creating…