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Quantum-enhanced sensing has a goal of enhancing a parameter sensitivity with input quantum states, while quantum illumination has a goal of enhancing a target detection capability with input entangled states in a heavy noise environment.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Su-Yong Lee , Yong Sup Ihn , Zaeill Kim

Squeezed states of light have been successfully employed in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors to reduce quantum noise, thus becoming one of the most promising options for extending the astrophysical reach of the generation of…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-13 Patrick Kwee , John Miller , Tomoki Isogai , Lisa Barsotti , Matthew Evans

Vacuum quantum fluctuations impose a fundamental limit on the sensitivity of gravitational-wave interferometers, which rank among the most sensitive precision measurement devices ever built. The injection of conventional squeezed vacuum…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-16 Chris Whittle , Kentaro Komori , Dhruva Ganapathy , Lee McCuller , Lisa Barsotti , Nergis Mavalvala , Matthew Evans

The possibility of using squeezed states and balanced homodyne detection of gravitational waves is discussed. It is shown that the quantum noise due to high laser intensities in Michelson interferometer for gravitational waves detection can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-06 Y. Ben-Aryeh

We analyze noise in a quantum-enhanced fiber optic gyroscope (FOG), focusing on one of the leading sources of phase uncertainty - uncorrelated photon saturation. Taking a squeezed state input as a source for N00N states, we compute the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Stefan Evans , Joanna Ptasinski

Characterizing noise in superconducting qubits is essential for improving coherence and gate performance. Conventional noise-sensing methods typically use the qubit itself as the sensor, which limits both accessible bandwidth and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Nitzan Kahn , Dror Garti , Uri Goldblatt , Lalit M. Joshi , Fabien Lafont , Serge Rosenblum

Quantum noise of the electromagnetic field is one of the limiting noise sources in interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Shifting the spectrum of squeezed vacuum states downwards into the acoustic band of gravitational wave…

Matter-wave interferometry is highly susceptible to inertial acceleration noises arising from the vibration of the experimental apparatus. There are various methods for noise suppression. In this paper, we propose leveraging the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Meng-Zhi Wu , Marko Toroš , Sougato Bose , Anupam Mazumdar

Accurate optical sensing and micromanipulation requires sensitive measurements of the position, orientation, and dynamics of small particles--and sometimes even large objects--under consideration. The signals acquired in the process,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Masud Mansuripur

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 present the reduction and manipulation of quantum radiation pressure noise (QRPN) in an optomechanical cavity with the injection of squeezed light. The optomechanical system consists of a high-reflectivity single-crystal microresonator…

We quantify how squeezed light can reduce quantum measurement noise to levels below the standard quantum limit in impulse measurements with mechanical detectors. The broadband nature of the signal implies that frequency-dependent squeezing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Tsai-Chen Lee , Jacob L. Beckey , Giacomo Marocco , Daniel Carney

The use of distributed amplifiers may have some potential advantages for the transmission of quantum information through optical fibers. In addition to the quantum noise introduced by the amplifiers, entanglement between atoms in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-26 J. D. Franson , B. T. Kirby

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…

Sensing and measurement tasks in severely adverse conditions such as loss, noise and dephasing can be improved by illumination with quantum states of light. Previous results have shown a modest reduction in the number of measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Alex O. C. Davis , Giacomo Sorelli , Valerian Thiel , Brian J. Smith

It has recently become possible to encode the quantum state of superconducting qubits and the position of nanomechanical oscillators into the states of microwave fields. However, to make an ideal measurement of the state of a qubit, or to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-04 M. A. Castellanos-Beltran , K. D. Irwin , G. C. Hilton , L. R. Vale , K. W. Lehnert

Proposed near-future upgrades of the current advanced interferometric gravitational wave detectors include the usage of frequency dependent squeezed light to reduce the current sensitivity-limiting quantum noise. We quantify and describe…

Gravitational waves emitted after neutron star binary coalescences and the information they carry about dense matter are a high-priority target for next-generation detectors. Even though such detectors are expected to observe millions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 Ethan Payne , Lee McCuller , Katerina Chatziioannou

The topic of quantum noise has become extremely timely due to the rise of quantum information physics and the resulting interchange of ideas between the condensed matter and AMO/quantum optics communities. This review gives a pedagogical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-16 A. A. Clerk , M. H. Devoret , S. M. Girvin , F. Marquardt , R. J. Schoelkopf

We theoretically analyze the quantum noise of signal-recycled laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors with additional input and output optics, namely frequency-dependent squeezing of the vacuum entering the dark port and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Harms , Yanbei Chen , Simon Chelkowski , Alexander Franzen , Henning Vahlbruch , Karsten Danzmann , Roman Schnabel