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Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-12-13 Uri London , Omri Gat

Interferometers are crucial for precision measurements, including gravitational waves, laser ranging, radar, and imaging. The phase sensitivity, the core parameter, can be quantum-enhanced to break the standard quantum limit (SQL) using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Wenfeng Huang , Xinyun Liang , Baiqiang Zhu , Yuhan Yan , Chun-Hua Yuan , Weiping Zhang , Liqing Chen

We propose a scheme for two-qubit gates between a flying photon and an atom in a cavity. The atom-photon gate setup consists of a cavity and a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with doubly degenerate ground and excited state energy levels…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Omar Nagib , P. Huft , A. Safari , M. Saffman

We address the performance of an interferometric setup in which a squeezed single photon interferes at a beam splitter with a coherent state. Our analysis in based on both the quantum Fisher information and the sensitivity when a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-09 Stefano Olivares , Maria Popovic , Matteo G. A. Paris

We propose direct experimental tests of the effective models of fractional quantum Hall edge states. We first recall a classification of effective models based on the requirement of anomaly cancellation and illustrate the general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Ivan P. Levkivskyi , Alexey Boyarsky , Juerg Froehlich , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

Particle-wave duality enables the construction of interferometers for matter waves, which complement optical interferometers in precision measurement devices. This requires the development of atom-optics analogs to beam splitters, phase…

By considering matter wave bright solitons from weakly coupled Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in a double-well potential, we study the formation of macroscopic non-classical states, including Schr\"odinger-cat superposition states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 D. V. Tsarev , S. M. Arakelian , You-Lin Chuang , Ray-Kuang Lee , A. P. Alodjants

It is shown that using beam splitters with non-equal wave vectors results in a new recoil diagram which is qualitatively different from the well-known diagram associated with the Mach-Zehnder atom interferometer. We predict a new asymmetric…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 B. Dubetsky

Quantum metrology enables estimation of optical phase shifts with precision beyond the shot-noise limit. One way to exceed this limit is to use squeezed states, where the quantum noise of one observable is reduced at the expense of…

Devices based on ultracold atoms moving in an accelerating optical lattice or double-well potential are a promising tool for precise measurements of fundamental physical constants as well as for the construction of sensors. Here, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-02-17 Andrea Sacchetti

We propose using an array of potential wells as an interferometer, in which the beam splitters are provided by tunneling during an appropriate time through the barrier between wells. This arrangement allows demonstration of generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-22 W. J. Mullin , F. Laloë

We study the sensitivity and resolution of phase measurement in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with two-mode squeezed vacuum (<n> photons on average). We show that super-resolution and sub-Heisenberg sensitivity is obtained with parity…

Localization of a particle in the wells of an asymmetric double-well (DW) potential is investigated here. Information entropy-based uncertainty measures, such as Shannon entropy, Fisher information, Onicescu energy, etc., and phasespace…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-15 Neetik Mukherjee , Amlan K. Roy

We investigate an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer with high visibility in the quantum Hall regime. The superposition of the electrostatic potentials from a quantum point contact (QPC) and the residual disorder potential from doping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. V. Litvin , A. Helzel , H. -P. Tranitz , W. Wegscheider , C. Strunk

Motivated by the need of quantum measurement of Majorana qubits and surface-code stabilizers, we analyze the performance of a double-dot interferometer under the influence of environment noise. The double-dot setup design allows accounting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Kai Zhou , Cheng Zhang , Lupei Qin , Xin-Qi Li

It was recently suggested that a novel type of phase transition may occur in the visibility of electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometers. Here, we present experimental evidence for the existence of this transition. The transition is induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 A. Helzel , L. V. Litvin , I. P. Levkivskyi , E. V. Sukhorukov , W. Wegscheider , C. Strunk

We study the non-linear beam splitter in matter-wave interferometers using ultracold quantum gases in a double-well configuration in presence of non-local interactions inducing inter-well density-density coupling, as they can be realized,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-04-24 Cosetta Baroni , Giacomo Gori , Maria Luisa Chiofalo , Andrea Trombettoni

Recent advances in quantum photonics have enabled increasingly robust protocols in optical phase estimation, achieving precisions beyond the standard quantum limit and approaching the Heisenberg limit. While intrinsic losses hinder the…

High sensitivity quantum interferometry requires more than just access to entangled states. It is achieved through deep understanding of quantum correlations in a system. Integrable models offer the framework to develop this understanding.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 D. S. Grun , L. H. Ymai , Karin Wittmann Wilsmann , A. P. Tonel , A. Foerster , J. Links

The double-pass interferometer scheme was proposed in Ref.\,[Light Sci. Appl. {\bf 7}, 11 (2018)] as the method of implementation of the quantum speed meter concept in future laser gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. Later it was shown in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-14 L. A. Barinov , F. Ya. Khalili