We review recent experimental and theoretical results of photon interferometry on rotating platforms. Quantum phenomena such as two-photon interference and entanglement can be controlled with mechanical rotations in a regime accessible to table-top experiments. We first discuss experiments demonstrating how low-frequency mechanical rotations affect the bunching behavior of frequency-entangled photon pairs. It was shown that low-frequency mechanical rotations can affect the temporal distinguishability of photons and can transform photonic behavior from perfectly indistinguishable (bosonic behavior) to perfectly distinguishable (fermionic behavior). We then give a future outlook for testing the generation of entanglement from mechanical rotation. A recent theoretical work showed that generating path-polarization entanglement from mechanical rotations could be verified with present technology. These works make a strong case for further exploration of quantum phenomena at the interface with non-inertial (rotational) motion.
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