We apply a Kennedy-type detection scheme, which was originally proposed for a binary communications system, to interferometric sensing devices. We show that the minimum detectable perturbation of the proposed system reaches the ultimate precision bound which is predicted by Neyman-Pearson hypothesis testing. To provide concrete examples, we apply our interferometric scheme to phase shift detection by using coherent and squeezed probe fields.
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0212037,
title = {Practical scheme for the optimal measuremnet in quantum interferometric devices},
author = {Masahiro Takeoka and Masashi Ban and Masahide Sasaki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0212037},
year = {2009}
}