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We show that the construction of the linear interferometer in the Supplemental Material of arXiv:1909.09581 is flawed, leading to a generally suboptimal solution. We then provide the correct derivation of the optimal interferometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 George Brumpton , Aiman Khan , Helia Hooshmand , Samanta Piano , Gerardo Adesso

A nonlinear interferometry scheme is described theoretically to induce and resolve electron wave- function beating on time scales shorter than the optical cycle of the time-delayed pump and probe pulses. By employing two moderately intense…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Christian Ott , Philipp Raith , Thomas Pfeifer

We construct a quantum algorithm that performs function-dependent phase transform and requires no initialization of an ancillary register. The algorithm recovers the initial state of an ancillary register regardless of whether its state is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dong Pyo Chi , Jinsoo Kim , Soojoon Lee

Quantum metrology is a science about quantum measurements and it plays a key role in precision of quantum parameter estimation. Meanwhile, quantum coherence is an important quantum feature and quantum Fisher information (QFI) is an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Jun-Long Zhao , Li Yu , Ming Yang , Chui-Ping Yang

Fundamental phase-shift detection properties of optical multimode interferometers are analyzed. Limits on perfectly distinguishable phase shifts are derived for general quantum states of a given average energy. In contrast to earlier work,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Jonas Soderholm , Gunnar Bjork , Bjorn Hessmo , Shuichiro Inoue

Gravitational information is incorporated into an atomic state by correlation of the internal and external degrees of freedom of the atom, in the present study of the atomic interferometer. Thus it is difficult to transfer information by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-23 Baocheng Zhang , Qing-yu Cai , Ming-sheng Zhan

The precise determination of a displacement of a mechanical oscillator or a microwave field in a predetermined direction in phase space can be carried out with trapped ions or superconducting circuits, respectively, by coupling the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Kimin Park , Petr Marek , Ulrik L. Andersen , Radim Filip

Light-pulse atom interferometers rely on the wave nature of matter and its manipulation with coherent laser pulses. They are used for precise gravimetry and inertial sensing as well as for accurate measurements of fundamental constants.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 Stephan Kleinert , Endre Kajari , Albert Roura , Wolfgang P. Schleich

Mach-Zehnder interferometer is a common device in quantum phase estimation and the photon losses in it are an important issue for achieving a high phase accuracy. Here we thoroughly discuss the precision limit of the phase in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 Xu Yu , Xiang Zhao , Luyi Shen , Yanyan Shao , Jing Liu , Xiaoguang Wang

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

The quantum Fisher information (QFI) associated with a particular process applied to a many-body quantum system has been suggested as a diagnostic for the nature of the system's quantum state, e.g., a thermal density matrix vs. a pure state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-05 Fernando Iniguez , Mark Srednicki

In this paper we describe and thoroughly discuss three reported experiments in quantum optics (QO) involving interferometers and non-linear crystals. We show that by using a graphical method and an over-simplified model of the parametric…

Optics · Physics 2015-02-16 Stefan Ataman

Quantum computers use the quantum interference of different computational paths to enhance correct outcomes and suppress erroneous outcomes of computations. In effect, they follow the same logical paradigm as (multi-particle)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Cleve , A. Ekert , L. Henderson , C. Macchiavello , M. Mosca

The problem of estimating a generic phase-shift experienced by a quantum state is addressed for a generally degenerate phase shift operator. The optimal positive operator-valued measure is derived along with the optimal input state. Two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. M. D'Ariano , C. Macchiavello , M. F. Sacchi

We show that a quantum particle subjected to a positive force in one path of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and a null force in the other path may receive a negative average momentum transfer when it leaves the interferometer by a particular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Raul Corrêa , Marina F. B. Cenni , Pablo L. Saldanha

Quantum entanglement and squeezing have significantly improved phase estimation and imaging in interferometric settings beyond the classical limits. However, for a wide class of non-interferometric phase imaging/retrieval methods vastly…

{\em Quantum Fourier analysis} is a new subject that combines an algebraic Fourier transform (pictorial in the case of subfactor theory) with analytic estimates. This provides interesting tools to investigate phenomena such as quantum…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Arthur Jaffe , Chunlan Jiang , Zhengwei Liu , Yunxiang Ren , Jinsong Wu

We consider the process of changing reference frames in the case where the reference frames are quantum systems. We find that, as part of this process, decoherence is necessarily induced on any quantum system described relative to these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 Matthew C. Palmer , Florian Girelli , Stephen D. Bartlett

Quantum conditional mutual information (QCMI) is a versatile information theoretic measure. It is used to find the amount of correlations between two qubits from the perspective of a third qubit. In this work we characterise the QCMI of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 H Saveetha , Peter P. Rohde , R Chandrashekar

Phase is a basic ingredient for quantum states since quantum mechanics uses complex numbers to describe quantum states. In this letter, we introduce a rigorous framework to quantify the phase of quantum states. To do so, we regard phase as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Jianwei Xu