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Interference (wave propagation)
About: Interference (wave propagation) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 26086 publications have been published within this topic receiving 321110 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method of ambiguity resolution for short-baseline interferometric observations of GPS, which is suitable for observations made with antennas of low directive gain.
Abstract: With the recent launching of several satellites of the global positioning system (GPS), a variety of schemes based on radio interferometry have been proposed for the accurate determination of relative positions of receiving terminals on the ground. Provided that the integer-cycle ambiguities of the interferometric phase observations can be correctly resolved, the baseline vector extending from the antenna of one terminal to that of another should be determinable with uncertainty much smaller than the 19-cm wavelength of the GPS transmissions. We propose a method of ambiguity resolution that is suitable for observations made with antennas of low directive gain. Such antennas are compact, but the feasibility of their use has been questioned because observations with them are susceptible to multipath interference. For short-baseline interferometric observations of GPS our method yields correct ambiguity resolution despite severe multipath interference and significant sky blockage, even when instability of the frequency standards governing the separate receiving terminals limits the time span of coherent integration to five minutes.
218 citations
TL;DR: Experimental evidence of quantum interference effects in solid-state LZ tunneling using a Cooper-pair box qubit is presented and it is found that the average level occupancies depend on the dynamical phase.
Abstract: Landau-Zener (LZ) tunneling can occur with a certain probability when crossing energy levels of a quantum two-level system are swept across the minimum energy separation. Here we present experimental evidence of quantum interference effects in solid-state LZ tunneling. We used a Cooper-pair box qubit where the LZ tunneling occurs at the charge degeneracy. By employing a weak nondemolition monitoring, we observe interference between consecutive LZ-tunneling events; we find that the average level occupancies depend on the dynamical phase. The system's unusually strong linear response is explained by interband relaxation. Our interferometer can be used as a high-resolution Mach-Zehnder--type detector for phase and charge.
217 citations
TL;DR: This work reports an observation of nonclassical interference of two single photons originating from two independent, separated sources, which were actively synchronized with a rms timing jitter of 260 fs.
Abstract: Interference of photons emerging from independent sources is essential for modern quantum-information processing schemes, above all quantum repeaters and linear-optics quantum computers. We report an observation of nonclassical interference of two single photons originating from two independent, separated sources, which were actively synchronized with a rms timing jitter of 260 fs. The resulting (two-photon) interference visibility was ($83\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}4$)%.
216 citations
TL;DR: A new protocol for practical quantum cryptography, tailored for an implementation with weak coherent pulses to obtain a high key generation rate, featuring a high efficiency in terms of distilled secret bit per qubit.
Abstract: We present and demonstrate a new protocol for practical quantum cryptography, tailored for an implementation with weak coherent pulses to obtain a high key generation rate. The key is obtained by a simple time-of-arrival measurement on the dataline; the presence of an eavesdropper is checked by an interferometer on an additional monitoring line. The setup is experimentally simple; moreover, it is tolerant to reduced interference visibility and to photon number splitting attacks, thus featuring a high efficiency in terms of distilled secret bit per qubit.
216 citations
TL;DR: A characterisation (through extensive measurements) of the interference produced by artificial light is presented and a simple model to describe it is proposed.
Abstract: Wireless infrared transmission systems for indoor use are affected by noise and interference induced by natural and artificial ambient light. This paper presents a characterisation (through extensive measurements) of the interference produced by artificial light and proposes a simple model to describe it. These measurements show that artificial light can introduce significant in-band components for systems operating at bit rates up to several Mbit/s. Therefore it is essential to include it as part of the optical wireless indoor channel. The measurements show that fluorescent lamps driven by solid state ballasts produce the wider band interfering signals, and are then expected to be the more important source of degradation in optical wireless systems.
216 citations