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Deterministic super-resolved estimation towards angular displacements based upon a Sagnac interferometer and parity measurement

Quantum Physics 2020-02-03 v1

Abstract

Super-resolved angular displacement estimation is of crucial significances for quantum information process and optical lithography. Here we report on and experimentally demonstrate a protocol for angular displacement estimation based on a coherent state containing orbital angular momentum. In the lossless scenario, with using parity measurement, this protocol can theoretically achieve 4\ell-fold super-resolution with quantum number \ell, and shot-noise-limited sensitivity saturating the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound. Several realistic factors and their effects are considered, including nonideal state preparation, photon loss, and imperfect detector. Finally, given mean photon number Nˉ=2.297\bar N=2.297 and =1\ell=1, we show an angular displacement super-resolution effect with a factor of 7.88, and the sensitivity approaching shot-noise limit is reachable.

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@article{arxiv.1809.04830,
  title  = {Deterministic super-resolved estimation towards angular displacements based upon a Sagnac interferometer and parity measurement},
  author = {Jian-Dong Zhang and Zi-Jing Zhang and Long-Zhu Cen and Jun-Yan Hu and Yuan Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.04830},
  year   = {2020}
}

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9 pages, 9 figures

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