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A methodology is introduced that enables an absolute, quantum-limited measurement of sub-wavelength interferometric displacements. The technique utilizes a high-frequency optical path modulation within an interferometer operated in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-12 Valérian Thiel , Pu Jian , Claude Fabre , Nicolas Treps , Jonathan Roslund

Infrared (IR) spectroscopy is an indispensable tool for many practical applications including material analysis and sensing. Existing IR spectroscopy techniques face challenges related to the inferior performance and the high cost of…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-13 Anna Paterova , Shaun Lung , Dmitry Kalashnikov , Leonid Krivitsky

It is shown in the present Letter that the quantum noise due to high laser intensities in Michelson interferometer for gravitational waves detection can be reduced by sending squeezed vacuum states to the 'dark' port of the interferometer.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-27 Yacob Ben-Aryeh

In an interferometer, path information and interference visibility are incompatible quantities. Complete determination of the path will exclude any possibility of interference, rendering the visibility zero. However, if the composite object…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei Trifonov , Gunnar Bjork , Jonas Soderholm , Tedros Tsegaye

The realization of a high-efficiency microwave single photon detector is a long-standing problem in the field of microwave quantum optics. Here we propose a quantum non-demolition, high-efficiency photon detector that can readily be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Baptiste Royer , Arne L. Grimsmo , Alexandre Choquette-Poitevin , Alexandre Blais

We propose the evanescent-mode-sensing methods to probe the electrodynamics (QED) vacuum polarization. From our methods, high-sensitivity can be achieved even though the external field is much smaller than the Schwinger critical field and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Wei Li , Jun Chen , Gerard Nouet , Liao-yao Chen , Xunya Jiang

We discuss a simple search problem which can be pursued with different methods, either on a classical or on a quantum basis. The system is represented by a chain of trapped ions. The ion to be searched is a member of that chain, consists,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. S. Agarwal , G. O. Ariunbold , J. von Zanthier , H. Walther

We propose methods to perform intensity interferometry of photons having two different wavelengths. Distinguishable particles typically cannot interfere with each other, but we overcome that obstacle by processing the particles via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Jordan Cotler , Frank Wilczek , Victoria Borish

We substitute the fully absorbing obstacle in the Elitzur-Vaidman experiment by a semitransparent object and show that the probabilities of detection can be manipulated in dependence of the transparency of such an object. Then, we connect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-05 Zurika Blanco-Garcia , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz

A new type of quantum entangled interferometer was recently realized that employs parametric amplifiers as the wave splitting and recombination elements. The quantum entanglement stems from the parametric amplifiers, which produce quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-21 Z. Y. Ou , Xiaoying Li

Quantum noise limits the sensitivity of interferometric measurements. It is generally admitted that it leads to an ultimate sensitivity, the ``standard quantum limit''. Using a semi-classical analysis of quantum noise, we show that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-01 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

Interferometric imaging is a well established method to image phase objects by mixing the image wavefront with a reference one on a CCD camera. It has also been applied to fast transient phenomena, mostly through the analysis of single…

We implement the impedance measurement technique (IMT) for characterization of interferometer-type superconducting qubits. In the framework of this method, the interferometer loop is inductively coupled to a high-quality tank circuit. We…

The quantum illumination technique requires joint measurement between the idler and the probe reflected from the low-reflective target present in a noisy environment. The joint measurement is only possible with prior knowledge about the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Sankar Davuluri , Greeshma Gopinath , Matt J. Woolley

Weak measurement is unique in enabling measurements of non-commuting operators as well as otherwise-undetectable peculiar phenomena predicted by the Two-State-Vector-Formalism (TSVF). This article, the first in two parts, explores novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yakir Aharonov , Eliahu Cohen , Avshalom C. Elitzur

Quantum imaging, one of the pillars of quantum technologies, is well-suited to study sensitive samples which require low-light conditions, like biological tissues. In this context, interaction-free measurements (IFM) allow us infer the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Alexandra Maria Palici , Tudor-Alexandru Isdraila , Stefan Ataman , Radu Ionicioiu

We propose a new technique for detecting gravitational waves using Quantum Entangled STate (QUEST) technology. Gravitational waves reduce the non-locality of correlated quanta controlled by Bell's inequalities, distorting quantum encryption…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabrizio Tamburini , Bruce A. Bassett , Carlo Ungarelli

We introduce and implement an interferometric technique based on chirped femtosecond laser pulses and nonlinear optics. The interference manifests as a high-visibility (> 85%) phase-insensitive dip in the intensity of an optical beam when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-07 R. Kaltenbaek , J. Lavoie , D. N. Biggerstaff , K. J. Resch

In this work, we investigate the question, which objects one can discriminate perfectly by 'interaction-free' measurements. To this end, we interpret the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb-tester experiment as a quantum channel discrimination problem and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 Markus Hasenöhrl , Michael M. Wolf

We investigate the notion of quantumness based on the non-commutativity of the algebra of observables and introduce a measure of quantumness based on the mutual incompatibility of quantum states. We show that such a quantity can be…