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Interferometry is a widely-used technique for precision measurements in both classical and quantum contexts. One way to increase the precision of phase measurements, for example in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), is to use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Stefan Ataman , Anca Preda , Radu Ionicioiu

Mach-Zehnder interferometer is a common device in quantum phase estimation and the photon losses in it are an important issue for achieving a high phase accuracy. Here we thoroughly discuss the precision limit of the phase in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 Xu Yu , Xiang Zhao , Luyi Shen , Yanyan Shao , Jing Liu , Xiaoguang Wang

We quantitatively investigate phase measurement in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), which is injected with a weak coherent and a squeezed vacuum generated from a spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The measured three-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Lifeng Duan

Achieving the ultimate quantum precision in the estimation of multiple physical parameters simultaneously is a challenge in quantum metrology due to fundamental limitations and experimental challenges in harnessing the necessary quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Atmadev Rai , Danilo Triggiani , Paolo Facchi , Vincenzo Tamma

Interferometry is an indispensable tool across all the natural sciences. Recently, a new type of interferometer based on phase-sensitive Fano resonances has been proposed and implemented. In these Fano interferometers, the two arms are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-07 Fabian Lauble , Jörg Evers

We report the experimental realization of a large-area and multi-axis atomtronic interferometer in an optical waveguide for rotation sensing. A large enclosed area is achieved through multi-loop operation in a guided atom interferometer…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Saurabh Pandey , Ceren Uzun , Katarzyna A. Krzyzanowska , Malcolm G. Boshier

I derive in this paper theoretical expressions for biases on fringe contrast and fringe visibility phase for optical interferometers whose polarizing properties can be described by beam rotation, retardance, and diattenuation. The nature of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-07 Guy Perrin

Spatial coherence of light sources is usually obtained by using the classical Youngs interferometer. Despite the original experiment has been improved in successive works, some drawbacks still remain. In addition, several pairs of points…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-17 FJ Torcal-Milla , J Lobera , EM Roche , AM Lopez , V Palero , N Andres , P Arroyo

Polarization-encoded free-space Quantum Communication requires a quantum state source featuring fast polarization modulation, long-term stability and a low intrinsic error rate. Here we present a source based on a Sagnac interferometer and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-27 Marco Avesani , Costantino Agnesi , Andrea Stanco , Giuseppe Vallone , Paolo Villoresi

We investigate the visibility of the current and shot-noise correlations of electrical analogs of the optical Mach-Zehnder interferometer and the Hanbury Brown Twiss interferometer. The electrical analogs are discussed in conductors subject…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. S. -W. Chung , P. Samuelsson , M. Buttiker

For a generic interferometer, the conditional probability density distribution, $p(\phi|m)$, for the phase $\phi$ given measurement outcome $m$, will generally have multiple peaks. Therefore, the phase sensitivity of an interferometer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Thomas B. Bahder , Paul A. Lopata

The non-reciprocity of Sagnac interferometer provides ultra-high sensitivity for parameter estimation and offers a wide range of applications, especially for optical fiber sensing. In this work, we study a new type of non-reciprocity…

A microscope based on the Linnik interferometer was designed, built, and tested. Two methods were used for interference pattern measurement: phase-shifting and polarized single-shot methods. The former uses a low coherence light emitting…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-25 Sergei V. Anishchik , Marcos Dantus

A non-perturbative treatment is developed for the dephasing produced by the shot noise of a one- dimensional electron channel. It is applied to two systems: a charge qubit and the electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer, both of them…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-22 Izhar Neder , Florian Marquardt

Here, we experimentally demonstrate an Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) Mach-Zehnder interferometer heterogeneously integrated in silicon photonics. The phase shifter section is realized in a novel lateral MOS configuration, which, due to favorable…

Inter-channel Coulomb interaction mixes charge excitations in copropagating quantum Hall edge channels, generating coupled excitation eigenmodes propagating at different speeds. This mode transformation causes an electron state to split…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Takase Shimizu , Eiki Iyoda , Satoshi Sasaki , Akira Endo , Shingo Katsumoto , Norio Kumada , Masayuki Hashisaka

Transparent in-line optical power monitoring in Si programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) is indispensable for calibrating integrated optical devices such as optical switches and resonators. A Si waveguide (WG) photodetector (PD)…

We introduce a concept of the Mach-Zehnder-Fano interferometer by inserting a cavity exhibiting Fano resonance into a conventional interferometer. By employing the scattering-matrix approach, we demonstrate that the transmission is…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrey E. Miroshnichenko , Yuri S. Kivshar

The aim of this paper is to revisit the implications of complementarity when we inject into a Mach Zehnder interferometer particles with internal structure, prepared in special translational-internal entangled (TIE) states. This correlation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Kolar , T. Opatrny , N. Bar-Gill , N. Erez , G. Kurizki

A p-n junction, an interface between two regions of a material populated with carriers of opposite charge, is a basic building block of solid state electronic devices. From the fundamental physics perspective, it often serves as a tool to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Roni Ilan , Fernando de Juan , Joel E. Moore