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We theoretically show that laser recoil heating in free-space levitated optomechanics can be arbitrarily suppressed by shining squeezed light onto an optically trapped nanoparticle. The presence of squeezing modifies the quantum…

This paper explores the sensitivity gains afforded by spin-squeezed states in atom interferometry, in particular using Bragg diffraction. We introduce a generalised input-output formalism that accurately describes realistic, non-unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Julian Günther , Jan-Niclas Kirsten-Siemß , Naceur Gaaloul , Klemens Hammerer

A continuous quantum field, such as a propagating beam of light, may be characterized by a squeezing spectrum that is inhomogeneous in frequency. We point out that homodyne detectors, which are commonly employed to detect quantum squeezing,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-19 L. F. Buchmann , S. Schreppler , J. Kohler , N. Spethmann , D. M. Stamper-Kurn

Accurate time transfer has become a crucial issue for future space experiments which require increasing resolution over large distances. In 2008, a scheme combining homodyne detection and mode-locked femtosecond lasers was proposed that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Shaofeng Wang , Xiao Xiang , Nicolas Treps , Claude Fabre , Ruifang Dong , Tao Liu , Shougang Zhang

The inherent coupling of optical and mechanical modes in high finesse optical microresonators provide a natural, highly sensitive transduction mechanism for micromechanical vibrations. Using homodyne and polarization spectroscopy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Schliesser , G. Anetsberger , R. Rivière , O. Arcizet , T. J. Kippenberg

We demonstrate a new technique for detecting components of arbitrarily-shaped radio-frequency waveforms based on stroboscopic back-action evading measurements. We combine quantum non-demolition measurements and stroboscopic probing to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 F. Martin Ciurana , G. Colangelo , L. Slodicka , R. J. Sewell , M. W. Mitchell

We present an interferometric sensor for investigating macroscopic quantum mechanics on a table-top scale. The sensor consists of pair of suspended optical cavities with a finesse in excess of 100,000 comprising 10 g fused-silica mirrors.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Jiri Smetana , Tianliang Yan , Vincent Boyer , Denis Martynov

The largely technical noise of a free running laser is the fundamental limit for preparation of a bright squeezed light, especially within MHz band. We construct a universal and complete theoretical model for nonclassical stabilization, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Ruixin Li , Bingnan An , Nanjing Jiao , Junyang Liu , Lirong Chen , Yajun Wang , Yaohui Zheng

Quantum resources can enhance the sensitivity of a device beyond the classical shot noise limit and, as a result, revolutionize the field of metrology through the development of quantum-enhanced sensors. In particular, plasmonic sensors,…

We reported a compact squeezed light source consisting of an diode laser near resonant on 87Rb optical D1 transition and an warm Rubidium vapor cell. The -4dB vacuum squeezing at 795 nm via nonlinear magneto-optical rotation was observed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-29 Guzhi Bao , Xiaotian Feng , Bing Chen , Jinxian Guo , Heng Shen , Liqing Chen , Weiping Zhang

We study in detail a system of two interferometers aimed to the detection of extremely faint phase-fluctuations. This system can represent a breakthrough for detecting a faint correlated signal that would remain otherwise undetectable even…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 I. Ruo Berchera , I. P. Degiovanni , S. Olivares , N. Samantaray , P. Traina , M. Genovese

Bright sources of quantum microwave light are an important building block for various quantum technological applications. Josephson junctions coupled to microwave cavities are a particularly versatile and simple source for microwaves with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Lukas Danner , Florian Höhe , Ciprian Padurariu , Joachim Ankerhold , Björn Kubala

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…

Critical phenomena of quantum systems offer a promising strategy to improve measurement precision. So far, many criticality-enhanced quantum metrological schemes have been proposed by using the adiabatically evolved photonic states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Ken Chen , Jia-Hao Lv , Wen Ning , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

We report electromagnetically induced transparency using quantized fields in optomechanical systems. The weak probe field is a narrow band squeezed field. We present a homodyne detection of EIT in the output quantum field. We find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Sumei Huang , G. S. Agarwal

Optomechanical systems have been exploited in ultrasensitive measurements of force, acceleration, and magnetic fields. The fundamental limits for optomechanical sensing have been extensively studied and now well understood -- the intrinsic…

In Ref. [Phys. Rev. A 108, 053708], the scheme of quantum non-demolition measurement of optical quanta that uses a resonantly enhanced Kerr nonlinearity in the optical microresonator, pre-squeezing of the probe beam, and its parametric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Dariya Salykina , Stepan Balybin , Farid Ya. Khalili

We demonstrate optical squeezing below the shot-noise level generated through the interaction of an optical cavity field with two center-of-mass modes of a levitated nanoparticle, simultaneously cooled to occupation numbers well below…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 A. Pontin , Q. Deplano , F. Marino , F. Marin

Nonlinear interferometers that replace beamsplitters in Mach-Zehnder interferometers with nonlinear amplifiers for quantum-enhanced phase measurements have drawn increasing interest in recent years, but practical quantum sensors based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 R. C. Pooser , N. Savino , E. Batson , J. L. Beckey , J. Garcia , B. J. Lawrie

We establish a connection between quantum inequalities (known from quantum field theory on curved spacetimes) and the degree of squeezing in quantum-optical experiments. We prove an inequality which binds the reduction of the electric-field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Marecki