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Squeezed light enables measurements with sensitivity beyond the quantum noise limit (QNL) for optical techniques such as spectroscopy, gravitational wave detection, magnetometry and imaging. Precision of a measurement -- as quantified by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 G. S. Atkinson , E. J. Allen , G. Ferranti , A. R. McMillan , J. C. F. Matthews

Spin squeezing in atomic ensembles enables atom interferometry with sensitivities below the shot-noise limit, but the associated entanglement is highly susceptible to loss, making imperfections in atom optics a central limitation. Bragg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Christian Miguel Karres , Daniel Derr , Enno Giese

Quantum optical technologies promise advances in sensing, computing, and communication. A key resource is squeezed light, where quantum noise is redistributed between optical quadratures. We introduce a monolithic, chip-scale platform that…

Squeezed states, a special kind of entangled states, are known as a useful resource for quantum metrology. In interferometric sensors they allow to overcome the "classical" projection noise limit stemming from the independent nature of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-02-14 Christian Gross

We study the use of squeezed probe light and evasion of measurement back-action to enhance the sensitivity and measurement bandwidth of an optically-pumped magnetometer (OPM) at sensitivity-optimal atom number density. By experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Charikleia Troullinou , Vito Giovanni Lucivero , Morgan W. Mitchell

Absorption measurement is an exceptionally versatile tool for many applications in science and engineering. For absorption measurements using laser beams of light, the sensitivity is theoretically limited by the shot noise due to the…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-22 Fu Li , Tian Li , Marlan O. Scully , Girish S. Agarwal

Quantum physics has brought enhanced capability in various sensing applications. Despite challenges from noise and loss in the radio-frequency (RF) domain, [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 150502 (2020)] demonstrates a route for enhanced RF-receiver…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Haowei Shi , Christopher M. Jones , Mengjie Yu , Zheshen Zhang , Quntao Zhuang

We investigate the prospects of using two-mode intensity squeezed twin-beams, generated in Rb vapor, to improve the sensitivity of spectroscopic measurements by engaging two-photon Raman transitions. As a proof of principle demonstration,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Nikunjkumar Prajapati , Ziqi Niu , Irina Novikova

Quantum entanglement has the potential to revolutionize the entire field of interferometric sensing by providing many orders of magnitude improvement in interferometer sensitivity. The quantum-entangled particle interferometer approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kishore T. Kapale , Leo D. Didomenico , Hwang Lee , Pieter Kok , Jonathan P. Dowling

In the last years, several works have demonstrated the advantage of photon subtracted Gaussian states for various quantum optics and information protocols. In most of these works, it was not clearly investigated the relation between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Nigam Samantaray , Ivano Ruo Berchera , Ivo. P. Degiovanni

In this paper, we investigate the phase sensitivities in two-path optical interferometry with asymmetric beam splitters. Here, we present the optimal conditions for the transmission ratio and the phase of the beam splitter to gain the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Wei Zhong , Fan Wang , Lan Zhou , Peng Xu , Yu-Bo Sheng

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…

Multimode quantum light has promising applications in many areas of physics, such as quantum communications and quantum computing. However, its multimode nature also makes it challenging to measure its properties. Recently [Optica Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 D. Scharwald , P. R. Sharapova

We study the use of squeezed light for qubit coherent control and compare it with the coherent state control field case. We calculate the entanglement between a short pulse of resonant squeezed light and a two-level atom in free space and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Ephraim Shahmoon , Shimon Levit , Roee Ozeri

The faithful distribution of entanglement in continuous variable systems is essential to many quantum information protocols. As such, entanglement distillation and enhancement schemes are a cornerstone of many applications. The photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Zacharie M. Leger , Aharon Brodutch , Amr S. Helmy

Quadrature squeezing of light is investigated in a hybrid atom-optomechanical system comprising a cloud of two-level atoms and a movable mirror mediated by a single-mode cavity field. When the system is at high temperatures with quadrature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Yanqiang Guo , Xiaomin Guo , Pu Li , Heng Shen , Jing Zhang , Tiancai Zhang

Estimating transmission or loss is at the heart of spectroscopy. To achieve the ultimate quantum resolution limit, one must use probe states with definite photon number and detectors capable of distinguishing the number of photons impinging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Aaron Z. Goldberg , Khabat Heshami

In this paper we present a state vector analysis of the generation of atomic spin squeezing by measurement of an optical phase shift. The frequency resolution is improved when a spin squeezed sample is used for spectroscopy in place of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-19 Isabelle Bouchoule , Klaus Moelmer

The control over quantum states in atomic systems has led to the most precise optical atomic clocks to date. Their sensitivity is currently bounded by the standard quantum limit, a fundamental floor set by quantum mechanics for uncorrelated…

Free-fall atom interferometers offer a powerful platform for accurate, absolute gravitational sensing. Szigeti et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 100402 (2020)] recently proposed a quantum-enhanced scheme that uses a spin-squeezed Bose-Einstein…