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Supersensitive measurement of angular displacements using entangled photons

Quantum Physics 2014-09-09 v1 Atomic Physics Optics

Abstract

We show that the use of entangled photons having non-zero orbital angular momentum (OAM) increases the resolution and sensitivity of angular-displacement measurements performed using an interferometer. By employing a 4×\times4 matrix formulation to study the propagation of entangled OAM modes, we analyze measurement schemes for two and four entangled photons and obtain explicit expressions for the resolution and sensitivity in these schemes. We find that the resolution of angular-displacement measurements scales as NlNl while the angular sensitivity increases as 1/(2Nl)1/(2Nl), where NN is the number of entangled photons and ll the magnitude of the orbital-angular-momentum mode index. These results are an improvement over what could be obtained with NN non-entangled photons carrying an orbital angular momentum of ll\hbar per photon

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@article{arxiv.1011.2833,
  title  = {Supersensitive measurement of angular displacements using entangled photons},
  author = {Anand Kumar Jha and Girish S. Agarwal and Robert W. Boyd},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.2833},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures

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