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The dual wave-particle nature of quantum objects is a notoriously unintuitive feature of quantum theories. However, it is often deemed essential, due to quantum objects exhibiting diffraction and interference. We extend the work of…

General Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Geoff Beck

We demonstrate the existence of new nonclassical correlations in the radiation of two atoms, which are coherently driven by a continuous laser source. The photon-photon-correlations of the fluorescence light show a spatial interferene…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-15 C. Skornia , J. von Zanthier , G. S. Agarwal , E. Werner , H. Walther

In this thesis concrete quantum systems are investigated in the framework of the environment induced decoherence. The focus is on the dynamics of highly nonclassical quantum states, the Wigner function of which are negative over some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Foldi

Interference underpins some of the most practical and impactful properties of both the classical and quantum worlds. In this work we experimentally investigate a new formalism to describe interference effects, based on collective states…

Multi-photon interference is central to photonic quantum information processing and quantum simulation, usually requiring multiple sources of non-classical light followed by a unitary transformation on their modes. Here, we observe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Bryn A. Bell , Benjamin J. Eggleton

We consider the scattering of particles by an obstacle which tunnels coherently between two positions. We show that the obstacle mimics two classical scatterers at fixed positions when the kinetic energy epsilon of the incident particles is…

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

We calculate the radiative characteristics of emission from a system of entangled atoms which can have a relative distance larger than the emission wavelength. We develop a quantum multipath interference approach which explains both super-…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 R. Wiegner , J. von Zanthier , G. S. Agarwal

When a Bose-Einstein condensate is divided into two parts, that are subsequently released and overlap, interference fringes are observed. We show here that this interference is typical, in the sense that most wave functions of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-11 P. Facchi , H. Nakazato , S. Pascazio , F. V. Pepe , K. Yuasa

We consider the quantum entanglement of the electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom in molecules with a tendency towards double welled potentials using model coupled harmonic diabatic potential-energy surfaces. The von Neumann entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-24 Laura K. McKemmish , Ross H. McKenzie , Noel S. Hush , Jeffrey R. Reimers

Quantum interference is investigated within the complex quantum Hamilton-Jacobi formalism. As shown in a previous work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 250401 (2009)], complex quantum trajectories display helical wrapping around stagnation tubes and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-09 Chia-Chun Chou , Angel S. Sanz , Salvador Miret-Artes , Robert E. Wyatt

In this paper we reveal an additional new cause for decreasing of particles interference. We found that particle which, transmits kinetic energy to the detector decrease its wave packet area size. A detector that transmits kinetic energy to…

General Physics · Physics 2007-06-17 Erez M. Yahalomi

A measurement scheme of atomic qubits pinned at given positions is studied by analyzing the interference pattern obtained when they emit photons spontaneously. In the case of two qubits, a well-known relation is revisited, in which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jun Suzuki , Christian Miniatura , Kae Nemoto

Quantum interference in coherent transport through single molecular rings may provide a mechanism to control current in molecular electronics. We investigate its applicability by using a single-particle Green function method combined with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-11 San-Huang Ke , Weitao Yang , Harold U. Baranger

We report generation of a new quantum interference effect in spontaneous emission from a resonantly driven system of two identical two-level atoms due to the spatial variation of the laser phase at the positions of the atoms. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-06 Sumanta Das , G. S. Agarwal , Marlan O. Scully

The squeezing spectrum of the resonance fluorescence is studied for a coherently driven four-level atom in the Y-type configuration. It is found that the squeezing properties of the fluorescence radiation are modified significantly when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. Arun

Torque is ubiquitous in many molecular systems, including collisions, chemical reactions, vibrations, electronic excitations and especially rotor molecules. We present a straightforward theoretical method based on forces acting on atoms and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Rui-Qin Zhang , Yan-Ling Zhao , Fei Qi , Klaus Hermann , Michel A. Van Hove

In recent years it became possible to align molecules in free space using ultrashort laser pulses. Here we explore two schemes for controlling molecule-surface scattering process, which are based on the laser-induced molecular alignment. In…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Yuri Khodorkovsky , J. R. Manson , Ilya Sh. Averbukh

Recent observations of destructive quantum interference in single-molecule junctions confirm the role played by quantum effects in the electronic conductance properties of molecular systems. We show here that the destructive interference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-25 Riccardo Frisenda , Vera Jansen , Ferdinand C. Grozema , Herre S. J. van der Zant , Nicolas Renaud

Current experimental and theoretical studies on the effect of intermolecular interactions on molecular conduction appear to be in conflict with each other. In particular, some experimental results, e.g., the observation of 2-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-23 A. Landau , L. Kronik , A. Nitzan

We study the quantum interference between impurities in d-wave superconductors within a potential scattering formalism that easily applies to multiple impurities. The evolution of the low-energy local density of states for both magnetic and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Brian M. Andersen , Per Hedegard