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Bose Einstein Condensates, with their coherence properties, have attracted wide interest for their possible application to ultra precise interferometry and ultra weak force sensors. Since condensates, unlike photons, are interacting, they…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Pezze' , L. A. Collins A. Smerzi , G. P. Berman , A. R. Bishop

Distributed quantum sensing exploits entanglement to enhance the estimation of multiple parameters across a network of spatially-separated sensors, achieving sensitivities beyond the classical limit. Potential applications cover a plethora…

We propose an approach to quantum phase estimation that can attain precision near the Heisenberg limit without requiring single-particle-resolved state detection. We show that the "one-axis twisting" interaction, well known for generating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Emily Davis , Gregory Bentsen , Monika Schleier-Smith

We investigate quantum phase estimation in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer using q-deformed photon states, including q-coherent and q-cat states, which model realistic deviations from ideal light sources. By deriving closed-form photon count…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Duttatreya , Sanjib Dey

Squeezed states of light have been improving the sensitivity of gravitational-wave observatories and are nonclassical resources of quantum cryptography and envisioned photonic quantum computers. The higher the squeeze factor is, the higher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Stephan Grebien , Julian Goettsch , Boris Hage , Jaromir Fiurasek , Roman Schnabel

Traditionally, spectroscopy is performed by examining the position of absorption lines. However, at frequencies near the transition frequency, additional information can be obtained from the phase shift. In this work we consider the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 Hossein T. Dinani , Manish K. Gupta , Jonathan P. Dowling , Dominic W. Berry

By using a systematic optimization approach we determine quantum states of light with definite photon number leading to the best possible precision in optical two mode interferometry. Our treatment takes into account the experimentally…

Narrow-band intensity-difference squeezing beams have important applications in quantum metrology and gravitational wave detection. The best way to generate narrow-band intensity-difference squeezing is to employ parametrically-amplified…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-25 Da Zhang , Changbiao Li , Zhaoyang Zhang , Feng Li , Yiqi Zhang , Yanpeng Zhang , Min Xiao

A recently proposed phase-estimation protocol that is based on measuring the parity of a two-mode squeezed-vacuum state at the output of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer shows that Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound sensitivity can be obtained [P.\ M.\…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Keith R. Motes , Petr M. Anisimov , Jonathan P. Dowling

We investigate theoretically and experimentally a nondestructive interferometric measurement of the state population of an ensemble of laser cooled and trapped atoms. This study is a step towards generation of (pseudo-) spin squeezing of…

Quantum interferometric sensing plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications, including quantum metrology, quantum imaging, and quantum lithography, where minute phase shifts carry valuable physical information. The strength of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Samata Gokhale , Netanel P. Yaish , Michal Natan , Saar Levin , Yogesh Dandekar , Avi Pe'er

A scheme for optimal and deterministic linear optical purification of mixed squeezed Gaussian states is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The scheme requires only linear optical elements and homodyne detectors, and allows the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Glöckl , U. L. Andersen , R. Filip , W. P. Bowen , G. Leuchs

Squeezed states of light are one of the most important fundamental resources for quantum optics, optical quantum information processing and quantum sensing. Recently, it has been experimentally demonstrated that the squeezing of single-mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Jaromír Fiurášek , Stephan Grebien , Roman Schnabel

We propose a method to perform precision measurements of the interaction parameters in systems of N ultra-cold spin 1/2 atoms. The spectroscopy is realized by first creating a coherent spin superposition of the two relevant internal states…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 A. M. Rey , L. Jiang , M. D. Lukin

We propose a protocol to measure impulses beyond the standard quantum limit. The protocol reduces noise in all three spatial dimensions and consists of squeezing a mechanical system's state via a series of jumps in the frequency of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Giacomo Marocco , David C. Moore , Daniel Carney

We propose a method to generate the multi-mode entangled catalysis squeezed vacuum states (MECSVS) by embedding the cross-Kerr nonlinear medium into the Mach-Zehnder interferometer. This method realizes the exchange of quantum states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-28 Huan Zhang , Wei Ye , Shoukang Chang , Ying Xia , Liyun Hu , Zeyang Liao

We study the phase sensitivity in the conventional $SU(2)$ and nonconventional $SU(1,1)$ interferometers with the coherent and squeezed vacuum input state via the quantum Cramer-Rao bound. We explicitly construct the detection scheme that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Yang Gao

We propose an all-optical approach to achieve optical nonreciprocity on a chip by quantum squeezing one of two coupled resonator modes. By parametric pumping a nonlinear resonator unidirectionally with a classical coherent field, we squeeze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Lei Tang , Jiangshan Tang , Mingyuan Chen , Franco Nori , Min Xiao , Keyu Xia

Using continuous wave superposition of spatial modes, we demonstrate experimentally displacement measurement of a light beam below the standard quantum limit. Multimode squeezed light is obtained by mixing a vacuum squeezed beam and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Treps , U. Andersen , B. Buchler , P. K. Lam , A. Maitre , H. -A. Bachor , C. Fabre

We propose a scheme of an optomechanical system that optimizes entanglement in nanomechanical resonators through quantum state transfer of intracavity squeezing and squeezed reservoir field sources assisted by radiation pressure. The system…