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High-Q optical microresonators combine low losses and high optical energy concentration in a small effective mode volume, making them an attractive platform for optical sensors. While light is confined in the microresonator by total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Dariya Salykina , Daniil Shakhbaziants , Igor Bilenko , Farid Khalili

Quantum interferometers offer phase measurement capabilities that surpass the standard quantum limit (SQL), with phase sensitivity and quantum enhancement factor serving as key performance metrics. However, practical implementations face…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jie Zhao , Zeliang Wu , Haoran Liu , Yueya Liu , Xin Chen , Xinyun Liang , Wenfeng Huang , Chun-Hua Yuan , L. Q. Chen

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

Recent advances in quantum sensing -- optical clocks at $5.5\times 10^{-19}$ systematic uncertainty, frequency-dependent squeezing below the standard quantum limit, quantum magnetometers approaching fundamental sensitivity limits -- raise a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Sergio Gaudio

Quantum noise limits the sensitivity of precision measurement devices, such as laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatories and axion detectors. In the shot-noise-limited regime, these resonant detectors are subject to a trade-off…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Xiang Li , Jiri Smetana , Amit Singh Ubhi , Joe Bentley , Yanbei Chen , Yiqiu Ma , Haixing Miao , Denis Martynov

We investigate the prospect of enhancing the phase sensitivity of atom interferometers in the Mach-Zehnder configuration with squeezed light. Ultimately, this enhancement is achieved by transferring the quantum state of squeezed light to…

It has long been thought that the sensitivity of laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors is limited by the free-mass standard quantum limit, unless radical redesigns of the interferometers or modifications of their input/output…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Alessandra Buonanno , Yanbei Chen

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…

We optimize two-mode, entangled, number states of light in the presence of loss in order to maximize the extraction of the available phase information in an interferometer. Our approach optimizes over the entire available input Hilbert…

The advent of stable, highly squeezed states of light has generated great interest in the gravitational wave community as a means for improving the quantumnoise- limited performance of advanced interferometric detectors. To confidently…

To date, frequency-dependent squeezed light has been used to reduce quantum noise in interferometric gravitational wave detectors by 6.1 dB (a factor of two). Future upgrades and detectors aim to both reduce quantum noise by 10 dB (a factor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-28 Kevin Kuns , Daniel Brown

We consider an interferometer powered by laser light (a coherent state) into one input port and ask the following question: what is the best state to inject into the second input port, given a constraint on the mean number of photons this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Matthias D. Lang , Carlton M. Caves

We present in this letter a scheme for optical interferometry. We utilize coherent-beam-stimulated two-mode squeezed light, which interacts with a phase shifter and is then squeezed again before detection. Our theoretical device has the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 William N. Plick , Jonathan P. Dowling , G. S. Agarwal

Enhancing the precision of a measurement requires maximizing the information that can be gained about the quantity of interest from probing a system. For optical based measurements, such an enhancement can be achieved through two…

We study Fock state interferometry, consisting of a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer with two Fock state inputs and photon-number-resolved detection at the two outputs. We show that it allows discrimination of a discrete number of apriori-known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Reihaneh Shahrokhshahi , Saikat Guha , Olivier Pfister

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

Quantum phase estimation based on Gaussian states plays a crucial role in many application fields. In this paper, we study the precision bound for the scheme using two-mode squeezed Gaussian states. The quantum Fisher information is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Jian-Dong Zhang , Chuang Li , Lili Hou , Shuai Wang

We demonstrate the potential of new adaptive optical technology to expand the detection horizon of gravitational-wave observatories. Achieving greater quantum-noise-limited sensitivity to spacetime strain hinges on achieving higher…

We address potential deviations of radiation field from the bosonic behaviour and employ local quantum estimation theory to evaluate the ultimate bounds to precision in the estimation of these deviations using quantum-limited measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 Giovanni De Cillis , Matteo G. A. Paris

It has been recently shown that an interferometric measurement may allow for sub-wavelength resolution of incoherent light. Whereas this holds for noiseless detectors, one could expect that the resolution is in practice limited by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Cosmo Lupo