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We experimentally demonstrate that the quantum entanglement between amplitude and phase quadratures of optical modes produced from a non-degenerate optical parametric amplifier (NOPA) can be enhanced and manipulated phase-sensitively by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-16 Yana Shang , Xiaojun Jia , Yumei Shen , Changde Xie , Kunchi Peng

Phase-insensitive optical amplifiers uniformly amplify each quadrature of an input field and are of both fundamental and technological importance. We find the quantum limit on the precision of estimating the gain of a quantum-limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Ranjith Nair , Guo Yao Tham , Mile Gu

We demonstrate compact and accessible squeezed-light magnetometry using four-wave mixing in a single hot rubidium vapor cell. The strong intrinsic coherence of the four wave mixing process results in nonlinear magneto-optical rotation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 N. Otterstrom , R. C. Pooser , B. J. Lawrie

Linear quantum amplifiers are indispensable tools for quantum technologies, yet their performance is fundamentally limited by quantum noise, precluding any signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) enhancement unless supplemented by post-selection or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Ya-Long Ren , Rong-Teng Cao , Sheng-Li Ma , Ren Zhang , Fu-Li Li , Franco Nori , Peng-Bo Li

We describe and characterize a simple, low cost, low phase noise microwave source that operates near 6.800 GHz for agile, coherent manipulation of ensembles of 87Rb. Low phase noise is achieved by directly multiplying a low phase noise 100…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-04-20 Zilong Chen , Justin G. Bohnet , Joshua M. Weiner , James K. Thompson

Amplifiers are crucial in every experiment carrying out a very sensitive measurement. However, they always degrade the information by adding noise. Quantum mechanics puts a limit on how small this degradation can be. Theoretically, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-22 N. Bergeal , R. Vijay , V. E. Manucharyan , I. Siddiqi , R. J. Schoelkopf , S. M. Girvin , M. H. Devoret

By utilizing the nondegenerate optical parametric amplifier, the quantum state transfer from a pump state with high frequency to a signal state of lower frequency is studied theoretically. The noiseless state transfer is characterized by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-24 Yunfei Bai , Junxiang Zhang , Shi-Yao Zhu

We demonstrate an unseeded, multimode four-wave mixing process in hot $^{85}$Rb vapor, using two pump beams of the same frequency that cross at a small angle. This results in the simultaneous fulfillment of multiple phase-matching…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Erin M. Knutson , Jon D. Swaim , Sara Wyllie , Ryan T. Glasser

Any amplifier requires coupling to its internal degrees of freedom for energy gain. This coupling introduces extra quantum noise to the output. On the other hand, if the internal degree of the amplifier can be accessed and manipulated, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jianmin Wang , Rong Zhu , Yue Li , Z. Y. Ou

Quantum noise suppression and phase-sensitive modulation of continuously variable in vacuum and squeezed fields in a hybrid resonant cavity system are investigated theoretically. Multiple dark windows similar to electromagnetic induction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Ke Di , Shuai Tan , Liyong Wang , Anyu Cheng , Xi Wang , Yuming Sun , Junqi Guo , Yu Liu , Jiajia Du

Cooling mechanical resonators is of great importance for both fundamental study and applied science. We investigate the hybrid optomechanical cooling with a three-level atomic ensemble fixed in a strong excited optical cavity. By using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Tan Li , Shuo Zhang , He-Liang Huang , Feng-Guang Li , Xiang-Qun Fu , Xiang Wang , Wan-Su Bao

We address quantum state engineering of single- and two-mode states by means of non-deterministic noiseless linear amplifiers (NLAs) acting on Gaussian states. In particular, we show that NLAs provide an effective scheme to generate highly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Hamza Adnane , Matteo Bina , Francesco Albarelli , Abdelhakim Gharbi , Matteo G. A. Paris

Due to the pervasive nature of decoherence, protection of quantum information during transmission is of critical importance for any quantum network. A linear amplifier that can enhance quantum signals stronger than their associated noise…

A noiseless linear amplifier (NLA) performs the highest quality amplification allowable under the rules of quantum physics. Unfortunately, these same rules conspire against us via the no-cloning theorem, which constrains NLA operations to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Joshua J. Guanzon , Matthew S. Winnel , Deepesh Singh , Austin P. Lund , Timothy C. Ralph

The no-cloning theorem states that an unknown quantum state cannot be cloned exactly and deterministically due to the linearity of quantum mechanics. Associated with this theorem is the quantitative no-cloning limit that sets an upper bound…

Quantum metrology exploits entangled states of particles to improve sensing precision beyond the limit achievable with uncorrelated particles. All previous methods required detection noise levels below this standard quantum limit to realize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 O. Hosten , R. Krishnakumar , N. J. Engelsen , M. A. Kasevich

We propose and theoretically analyze a teleportation-based scheme for high-fidelity noiseless quantum amplification of coherent states of light. In our approach, the probabilistic noiseless quantum amplification operation is encoded into a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Jaromír Fiurášek

Low-noise amplification atmicrowave frequencies has become increasingly important for the research related to superconducting qubits and nanoelectromechanical systems. The fundamental limit of added noise by a phase-preserving amplifier is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 Pasi Lähteenmäki , Visa Vesterinen , Juha Hassel , G. S. Paraoanu , Heikki Seppä , Pertti Hakonen

We present the results of a linear optics photonic implementation of a quantum circuit that simulates a phase covariant cloner, by using two different degrees of freedom of a single photon. We experimentally simulate the action of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-04 Laura T. Knoll , Ignacio H. López Grande , Miguel A. Larotonda

Low-noise amplifiers are of great importance in the field of quantum technologies. We study a thermally driven parametric amplifier based on a superconductor-insulator-graphene-insulator-superconductor (SIGIS) junction coupled to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Marco Will , Mohammad Tasnimul Haque , Yuvraj Chaudhry , Dmitry Golubev , Pertti Hakonen