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We demonstrate a simple single grating beam modulation technique, which enables the use of a highly intense neutron beam for phase imaging and thus spatially resolved structural correlation measurements in full analogy to quantum…

Quantum devices for generating entangled states have been extensively studied and widely used. As so, it becomes necessary to verify that these devices truly work reliably and efficiently as they are specified. Here, we experimentally…

A recently identified class of receivers which demultiplex an optical field into a set of orthogonal spatial modes prior to detection can surpass canonical diffraction limits on spatial resolution for simple incoherent imaging tasks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Michael R Grace , Zachary Dutton , Amit Ashok , Saikat Guha

Quantum metrology offers the potential to surpass its classical counterpart, pushing the boundaries of measurement precision toward the ultimate Heisenberg limit. This enhanced precision is normally attained by utilizing large squeezed…

Interference is fundamental to wave dynamics and quantum mechanics. The quantum wave properties of particles are exploited in metrology using atom interferometers, allowing for high-precision inertia measurements [1, 2]. Furthermore, the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-09-14 Christian Gross , Tilman Zibold , Eike Nicklas , Jerome Esteve , Markus K. Oberthaler

Wavefront sensing involves estimating the phase and intensity of light, enabling a wide range of imaging applications, from adaptive optics and astronomy to biomedical imaging. Since conventional image sensors can only measure the spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Nebiyou Yismaw , Vishwanath Saragadam , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , M. Salman Asif

A major obstacle to attain the fundamental precision limit of the phase estimation in an interferometry is the identification and implementation of the optimal measurement. Here we demonstrate that this can be accomplished by the use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Wei Zhong , Yixiao Huang , Xiaoguang Wang , Shi-Liang Zhu

We consider an optical interferometer with coherent light in one input and a squeezed vacuum in another. Such an interferometer is known to beat the standard quantum limit of sensitivity to the difference of phase shifts in its arms. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Dmitri B. Horoshko , Fedor Jelezko

Precise measurements in optical and atomic systems often rely on differential interferometry. This method allows to handle large and correlated phase noise contributions -- such as environmental vibrations, thermal fluctuations, or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Luca Pezzè , Andrea Santoni , Chiara Mazzinghi , Marco Fattori , Augusto Smerzi

We propose a scheme in which an arbitrary incidence can be made perfectly reflected/transmitted if a phase setup is adjusted under a specific condition. We analyze the intracavity field variation as well as the output field with changing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Miaodi Guo , Xuemei Su

We show that the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound on the precision of measurements of the optical phase gradient, or the wavefront tilt, with a beam of finite width is consistent with the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for a single-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Walker Larson , Bahaa E. A. Saleh

We address the issue of precisely estimating small parameters encoded in a general linear transformation of the modes of a bosonic quantum field. Such Bogoliubov transformations frequently appear in the context of quantum optics. We provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Nicolai Friis , Michalis Skotiniotis , Ivette Fuentes , Wolfgang Dür

Nonlinear quantum metrology schemes can lead to faster than Heisenberg limited scalings for the measurement uncertainty. We study a Michelson interferometer embedded in a Kerr medium [Luis and Rivas, Phys. Rev. A 92, 022104 (2015)] that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Bijoy John Mathew , Anil Shaji

We present a framework for simultaneously estimating all four real parameters of a general two-channel unitary U(2) with Heisenberg-scaling precision. We derive analytical expressions for the quantum Fisher information matrix and show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Atmadev Rai , Danilo Triggiani , Paolo Facchi , Vincenzo Tamma

We present a quantum sensing scheme achieving the ultimate quantum sensitivity in the estimation of the transverse displacement between two photons interfering at a balanced beam splitter, based on transverse-momentum sampling measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Danilo Triggiani , Vincenzo Tamma

We present an experimental demonstration of the power of real-time feedback in quantum metrology, confirming a theoretical prediction by Wiseman regarding the superior performance of an adaptive homodyne technique for single-shot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael A. Armen , John K. Au , John K. Stockton , Andrew C. Doherty , Hideo Mabuchi

At the recent QSCP XIX, the author claimed a procedure of using a scaled Fourier transform (the scaling being determined by the detailed interaction and particle mass for a harmonic oscillator) to achieve simultaneous resolution of position…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-09 Donald J. Kouri

We perform several numerical studies for our recently published adaptive compressive tomography scheme [D. Ahn et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 100404 (2019)], which significantly reduces the number of measurement settings to unambiguously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 D. Ahn , Y. S. Teo , H. Jeong , D. Koutny , J. Rehacek , Z. Hradil , G. Leuchs , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

The measurement problem for the optical phase has been traditionally attacked for noiseless schemes or in the presence of amplitude or detection noise. Here we address estimation of phase in the presence of phase diffusion and evaluate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Marco G. Genoni , Stefano Olivares , Matteo G. A. Paris

We propose to use the antisqueezing-enhanced non-Gaussian Schr\"odinger cat quantum states of the probing light for the task of detection of a given phase shift in optical interferometers. We show that the antisqueezing allows to increase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 V. L. Gorshenin , K. D. Dyadkin , S. D. Chikalkin