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Photonic quantum metrology harnesses quantum states of light, such as NOON or Twin-Fock states, to measure unknown parameters beyond classical precision limits. Current protocols suffer from two severe limitations that preclude their…

The increased phase sensitivity of N00N states has been used in many experiments, often involving photon paths or polarization. Here we experimentally combine the phase sensitivity of N00N states with the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Markus Hiekkamäki , Frédéric Bouchard , Robert Fickler

Quantum states of light, such as squeezed states or entangled states, can be used to make measurements (metrology), produce images, and sense objects with a precision that far exceeds what is possible classically, and also exceeds what was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-02 Jonathan P. Dowling

Quantum metrology employs quantum resources to enhance the measurement sensitivity beyond that can be achieved classically. While multi-photon entangled NOON states can in principle beat the shot-noise limit and reach the Heisenberg limit,…

Gears are rotating machines, meshing with each other by teeth to transmit torque. Interestingly, the rotating directions of two meshing gears are opposite, clockwise and counterclockwise. Although this opposite handedness motion has been…

Quantum approaches relying on entangled photons have been recently proposed to increase the efficiency of optical measurements. We demonstrate here that, surprisingly, the use of classical light with entangled degrees of freedom can also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Falk Töppel , Andrea Aiello , Christoph Marquardt , Elisabeth Giacobino , Gerd Leuchs

Quantum metrology leverages quantum correlations for enhanced parameter estimation. Recently, structured light enabled increased resolution and sensitivity in quantum metrology systems. However, lossy and complex setups impacting photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Ofir Yesharim , Guy Tshuva , Ady Arie

We analyze the behavior of light as it passes through systems composed of polarizing filters at different angular orientations. The analysis is initially conducted in the context of classical optics, using Malus's Law to calculate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Davi A. Assunção , Samuel B. Soltau

Quantum metrology research promises approaches to build new sensors that achieve the ultimate level of precision measurement and perform fundamentally better than modern sensors. Practical schemes that tolerate realistic fabrication…

Precise magnetometry is vital in numerous scientific and technological applications. At the forefront of sensitivity, optical atomic magnetometry, particularly techniques utilizing nonlinear magneto-optical rotation (NMOR), enables…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-31 S. Pustelny , P. Włodarczyk

Ultra-sensitive measurement of the magneto-optical rotation, due to interaction of linearly-polarized light passing through room-temperature Rb 85 atoms, in response to change in longitudinal magnetic field (\delta B_z ) is demonstrated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-04 T. J. Vineeth Francis , Rashmi Ranjan Suna , P. K. Madhu , Nirmal K. Viswanathan , G. Rajalakshmi

The manipulation and metrology of light beams are pivotal for optical science and applications. In particular, achieving ultra-high precision in the measurement of light beam rotations has been a long-standing challenge. Instead of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Binke Xia , Jingzheng Huang , Hongjing Li , Zhongyuan Luo , Guihua Zeng

The complementarity between time and energy, as well as between an angle and a component of angular momentum, is described at three different layers of understanding. The phenomena of super-resolution are readily apparent in the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Scott Roger Shepard

Hyperentanglement --- simultaneous entanglement between multiple degrees of freedom of two or more systems --- has been used to enhance quantum information tasks such as quantum communication and photonic quantum computing. Here we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 S. P. Walborn , A. H. Pimentel , L. Davidovich , R. L. de Matos Filho

Quantum metrology allows for a tremendous boost in the accuracy of measurement of diverse physical parameters. The estimation of a rotation constitutes a remarkable example of this quantum-enhanced precision. The recently introduced Kings…

In this talk, I introduce recently proposed method for measuring the photon polarization in $B\to K_{\rm res}\gamma$. It is also shown that anomalous right-handed top couplings can severely affect the photon polarization without spoiling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Jong-Phil Lee

The quantum properties of matter and radiation can be leveraged to surpass classical limits of sensing and detection. Quantum optics does so by creating and measuring nonclassical light. However, better performance requires higher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Cruz I. Velasco , F. Javier García de Abajo

Classical measurement strategies in many areas are approaching their maximum resolution and sensitivity levels, but these levels often still fall far short of the ultimate limits allowed by the laws of physics. To go further, strategies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 David S. Simon

Intense laser ionization expands Einstein's photoelectric effect rules giving a wealth of phenomena widely studied over the last decades. In all cases, so far, photons were assumed to carry one unit of angular momentum. However it is now…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 A. Picón , J. Mompart , J. R. Vázquez de Aldana , L. Plaja , G. F. Calvo , L. Roso

Quantum imaging is an advanced method for microscopy or investigating the optical properties of materials or bio-medical inspections with high accuracy, low noise, and extremely low photo-damage. In previous work, we proposed a quantum…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-09 Mousume Samad , Maki Shimizu , Yasuto Hijikata
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