Quantum multilateration: Subdiffraction emitter pair localization via three spatially separate Hanbury Brown and Twiss measurements

The Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect

If we had just 2Nk in the sum, this would be proportional to the energy of each mode times the number of quanta in each mode, summed over all modes. In fact, we have a ‘zero point’ contribution even when Nk = 0. It has exactly the same origin as the 12~ω ground state energy of the simple harmonic oscillator. In this case, the infinite number of modes means that the sum in Eq. (3) is not converg...

The fermionic hanbury brown and twiss experiment

A Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment for a beam of electrons has been realized in a two-dimensional electron gas in the quantum Hall regime. A metallic split gate serves as a tunable beam splitter to partition the incident beam into transmitted and reflected partial beams. In the nonequilibrium case the fluctuations in the partial beams are shown to be fully anticorrelated, demonstrating that f...

The colored Hanbury Brown–Twiss effect

The Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect is one of the celebrated phenomenologies of modern physics that accommodates equally well classical (interferences of waves) and quantum (correlations between indistinguishable particles) interpretations. The effect was discovered in the late thirties with a basic observation of Hanbury Brown that radio-pulses from two distinct antennas generate signals on the osc...

Hanbury Brown-Twiss interference of anyons.

We present a study of a Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometer realized with anyons. Such a device can directly probe entanglement and fractional statistics of initially uncorrelated particles. We calculate Hanbury Brown-Twiss cross correlations of Abelian Laughlin anyons. The correlations we calculate exhibit partial bunching similar to bosons, indicating a substantial statistical transmutation fr...

Hanbury Brown-twiss Interferometry in Subatomic Particles