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Quantum optical systems comprising quantum emitters interacting with engineered optical modes generate non-classical states of light that can be used as resource states for quantum-enhanced interferometry. However, outside of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Erfan Abbasgholinejad , Daniel Malz , Ana Asenjo-Garcia , Rahul Trivedi

The most efficient approach to laser interferometric force sensing to date uses monochromatic carrier light with its signal sideband spectrum in a squeezed vacuum state. Quantum decoherence, i.e. mixing with an ordinary vacuum state due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Mikhail Korobko , Jan Südbeck , Sebastian Steinlechner , Roman Schnabel

As one of the main pillars of quantum technologies, quantum metrology aims to improve measurement precision using techniques from quantum information. The two main strategies to achieve this are the preparation of nonclassical states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Matteo Fadel , Noah Roux , Manuel Gessner

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

Adaptive optics has made significant advancement over the past decade, becoming the essential technology in a wide variety of applications, particularly in the realm of quantum optics. One key area of impact is gravitational-wave detection,…

Quantum coherence is critical resource for applications in quantum technology, among which quantum-enhanced sensing represents a typical example.Compared with quantum metrology with entangled states of multiple qubits, bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Xiao-Wei Zheng , Jun-Cong Zheng , Xue-Feng Pan , Pengbo Li

The sensitivity in optical interferometry is strongly affected by losses during the signal propagation or at the detection stage. The optimal quantum states of the probing signals in the presence of loss were recently found. However, in…

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 discrimination and estimation are pivotal for many quantum technologies, and their performance depends on the optimal choice of probe state and measurement. Here we show that their performance can be further improved by suitably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-14 Daniel Basilewitsch , Haidong Yuan , Christiane P. Koch

The high-precision interferometric measurement of an unknown phase is the basis for metrology in many areas of science and technology. Quantum entanglement provides an increase in sensitivity, but present techniques have only surpassed the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 G. Y. Xiang , B. L. Higgins , D. W. Berry , H. M. Wiseman , G. J. Pryde

In a previous paper [M. Tsang, Phys. Rev. A 99, 012305 (2019)], I proposed a quantum limit to the estimation of object moments in subdiffraction incoherent optical imaging. In this sequel, I prove the quantum limit rigorously by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-12 Mankei Tsang

Interferometers provide a highly sensitive means to investigate and exploit the coherence properties of light in metrology applications. However, interferometers come in various forms and exploit different properties of the optical states…

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

We combine matter-wave interferometry and cavity optomechanics to propose a coherent matter--light interface based on mechanical motion at the quantum level. We demonstrate a mechanism that is able to transfer non-classical features…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-11 André Xuereb , Hendrik Ulbricht , Mauro Paternostro

We numerically investigate the role of quantum fluctuations in superresolution of optical objects. First, we confirm that when quantum fluctuations are not taken into account, one can easily improve the resolution by one order of magnitude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladislav N. Beskrovnyy , Mikhail I. Kolobov

We present an overview of quantum noise in gravitational wave interferometers. Gravitational wave detectors are extensively modified variants of a Michelson interferometer and the quantum noise couplings are strongly influenced by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas Corbitt , Nergis Mavalvala

Quantum metrology promises greater sensitivity for optical phase measurements than could ever be achieved classically. Here we present a theory of the phase sensitivity for the general case where the detection probability is given by an $N$…

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

Quantum metrology is the science that aims to achieve precision measurements by making use of quantum principles. Attribute to the well-developed techniques of manipulating and detecting cold atoms, cold atomic systems provide an excellent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Jiahao Huang , Shuyuan Wu , Honghua Zhong , Chaohong Lee

Quantum metrology exploits quantum correlations to make precise measurements with limited particle numbers. By utilizing inter- and intra- mode correlations in an optical interferometer, we find a state that combines entanglement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 P. A. Knott , T. J. Proctor , A. J. Hayes , J. P. Cooling , J. A. Dunningham