Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect

English

Alternative forms

• Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect, Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect

Etymology

Named after Robert Hanbury Brown and Richard Q. Twiss.

Noun

Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect (plural Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effects)

1. (physics) Any of a variety of correlation and anticorrelation effects in the intensities received by two detectors from a beam of particles.

Further reading

• Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia