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Quantum illumination is a quantum-optical sensing technique in which an entangled source is exploited to improve the detection of a low-reflectivity object that is immersed in a bright thermal background. Entangled sources between microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Biao Xiong , Xun Li , Xiao-Yu Wang , Ling Zhou

Quantum sensing exploits quantum phenomena to enhance the detection and estimation of classical parameters of physical systems and biological entities, particularly so as to overcome the inefficiencies of its classical counterparts. A…

Quantum sensing using non-linear interferometers offers the possibility of bicolour imaging, using light that never interacted with the object of interest, and provides a way to achieve phase supersensitivity, i.e. a Heisenberg-type scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Simon Schaffrath , Daniel Derr , Markus Gräfe , Enno Giese

The detection of kilohertz-band gravitational waves promises discoveries in astrophysics, exotic matter, and cosmology. To improve the kilohertz quantum noise-limited sensitivity of interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, we…

Two-photon excitation spectroscopy is a nonlinear technique that has gained rapidly in interest and significance for studying the complex energy-level structure and transition probabilities of materials. While the conventional spectroscopy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Yuanyuan Chen , Roberto de J. León-Montiel , Lixiang Chen

This manuscript is inspired by the paper [2]. In the paper, they investigate a method to detect existence of an object with arbitrarily small interaction. Below, we sketch their protocol to motivate the present manuscript. The object of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Keiji Matsumoto

We show that the resolution "per absorbed particle" of standard absorption tomography can be outperformed by a simple interferometric setup, provided that the different levels of "gray" in the sample are not uniformly distributed. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Facchi , Z. Hradil , G. Krenn , S. Pascazio , J. Rehacek

We devise a multiphoton interferometry scheme for sampling a quadratic function of a specific immanant for any submatrix of a unitary matrix and its row permutations. The full unitary matrix describes a passive, linear interferometer, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Aeysha Khalique , Hubert de Guise , Barry C. Sanders

Recently highly-efficient quantum engines were devised by exploiting the stochastic energy changes induced by quantum measurement. Here we show that such an engine can be based on an interaction-free measurement, in which the meter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Cyril Elouard , Mordecai Waegell , Benjamin Huard , Andrew N. Jordan

We suggest an interferometric scheme assisted by squeezing and linear feedback to realize the whole class of field-quadrature quantum nondemolition measurements, from Von Neumann projective measurement to fully non-destructive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Matteo G. A. Paris

The ability to perform high-precision optical measurements is paramount to science and engineering. Laser interferometry enables interaction-free sensing with a precision ultimately limited by shot noise. Quantum optical sensors can surpass…

Infrared (IR) imaging is one of the significant tools for the quality control measurements of fabricated samples. Standard IR imaging techniques use direct measurements, where light sources and detectors operate at IR range. Due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Anna V. Paterova , Hongzhi Yang , Zi S. D. Toa , Leonid A. Krivitsky

Quantum interferometry uses quantum resources to improve phase estimation with respect to classical methods. Here we propose and theoretically investigate a new quantum interferometric scheme based on three-dimensional waveguide devices.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-09 N. Spagnolo , L. Aparo , C. Vitelli , A. Crespi , R. Ramponi , R. Osellame , P. Mataloni , F. Sciarrino

The use of entangled light to illuminate objects is shown to provide significant enhancements over unentangled light for detecting and imaging those objects in the presence of high levels of noise and loss. Each signal sent out is entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-14 Seth Lloyd

Matter-wave interferometry is a highly sensitive tool to measure small perturbations in a quantum system. This property allows the creation of precision sensors for dephasing mechanisms such as mechanical vibrations. They are a challenge…

The reduction paradigm of quantum interferometry is reanalyzed. In contrast to widespread opinion it is shown to be amenable to straightforward mathematical treatment within ``every-users'' simple-minded single particle quantum mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Markus Simonius

We provide a detailed description of the quantum interferometric thermometer, which is a device that estimates the temperature of a sample from the measurements of the optical phase. For the first time, we rigorously analyze the operation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 Marcin Jarzyna , Marcin Zwierz

Infrared (IR) spectroscopy can be used as an important and effective tool for probing periodic networks of quantum wires or nanotubes (quantum crossbars, QCB) at finite frequencies far from the Luttinger liquid fixed point. Plasmon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Kuzmenko , S. Gredeskul , K. Kikoin , Y. Avishai

Preparation of a non-classically correlated state is the first step of any quantum-enhanced interferometric protocol. An efficient method is the one-axis twisting, which entangles a collection of initially uncorrelated particles by means of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 K. Gietka , P. Szankowski , T. Wasak , J. Chwedenczuk

Utilizing nonlinear interferometers for sensing with undetected light enables new sensing and imaging techniques in spectral ranges that are difficult to detect. To enhance this method for future applications, it is advantageous to extract…