Introduction The X-ray standing wave (XSW) technique provides an element-specific structural probe by using x-ray reflectivity to generate a " two-beam " interference field that in turn induces a spatial dependence to the x-ray spectroscopic yields from atoms within the field. The XSW technique is primarily used for resolving the atomic-scale structure at surfaces, interfaces, and thin films wi...

We study Andreev bound states in a long shallow normal constriction, which is open to a superconductor at both ends. The interesting features of such setup include the absence of electron-hole symmetry and the interference of electron waves along the constriction. We compare results of a numerical approach based on the Bogoliubov equations with those of a refined semiclassical description. Thre...

The on-demand emission of coherent and indistinguishable electrons by independent synchronized sources is a challenging task of quantum electronics, in particular regarding its application for quantum information processing. Using two independent on-demand electron sources, we triggered the emission of two single-electron wave packets at different inputs of an electronic beam splitter. Whereas ...

We describe a new realization of Ghose, Home, Agarwal experiment on wave particle duality of light where some limitations of the former experiment, realized by Mizobuchi and Ohtaké, are overcome. Our results clearly indicate that wave-particle complementarity must be understood between interference and " whelcher weg " knowledge and not in a more general sense. PACS 03.65.Ta Wave particle duali...

The whole complex wave front is given in all planes, if amplitude and phase of a wave front are known in one plane. This can be considered as a three-dimensional interference pattern. Therefore the intensity distributions in different planes are coupled with the phase distributions by the diffraction relations. This relation can be used to reconstruct the complex wave front by measuring the int...

We study transformations of conventional ('classical') probabilities induced by context transitions. It is demonstrated that the transition from one complex of conditions to another induces a perturbation of the classical rule for the addition of probabilistic alternatives. We classify such perturbations. It is shown that there are two classes of perturbations: (a) trigonometric interference; (...

Results of a new analysis of the K+K− photoproduction at two photon energies Eγ = 4 GeV and 5.65 GeV with a particular emphasis on the S-wave production are presented. We show that the proper treatment of all the helicity components of the Sand P -waves enables one to eliminate the reported discrepancies in the extraction of the Swave photoproduction cross section from experimental data.

A crucial step in revealing the nature of unconventional superconductivity is to investigate the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter. Scanning tunneling spectroscopy has proven a powerful technique to probe this symmetry by measuring the quasiparticle interference (QPI) which sensitively depends on the superconducting pairing mechanism. A particularly well-suited material to apply t...

This paper considers iterative frequency-domain receivers for block transmission techniques with rate-1 Space Time Block Coding (STBC) for two and four transmit antennas using both Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and Single-Carrier (SC) schemes. The proposed receiver includes an interference canceller which enhances the performance of the non-orthogonal STBC scheme with 4 tran...