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Quantum states of light can improve imaging whenever the image quality and resolution are limited by the quantum noise of the illumination. In the case of a bright illumination, quantum enhancement is obtained for a light field composed of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-13 C. S. Embrey , M. T. Turnbull , P. G. Petrov , V. Boyer

Compared to light interferometers, the flux in cold-atom interferometers is low and the associated shot noise large. Sensitivities beyond these limitations require the preparation of entangled atoms in different momentum modes. Here, we…

One of the noise sources that currently limits gravitational wave (GW) detectors comes from the quantum nature of the light causing uncertain amplitude and phase. Phase uncertainty limits the precision of an interferometric measurement.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Nancy Aggarwal

The hybrid interferometer integrating an optical parametric amplifier and a beam splitter has the potential to outperform the SU(1,1) interferometer. However, photon loss remains a critical limitation for practical implementation. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Qisi Zhou , Tao Jiang , Qingqian Kang , Teng Zhao , Xin Su , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

We propose an unconventional scheme for quantum entangled state distribution (QESD) and quantum state transfer~(QST) based on a fiber-cavity-atom system, in which three atoms are confined, respectively, in three bimodal cavities connected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Jing-Xin Liu , Jun-Yao Ye , Lei-Lei Yan , Shi-Lei Su , Mang Feng

Quantum light generated in non-degenerate squeezers has many applications such as sub-shot-noise transmission measurements to maximise the information extracted by one photon or quantum illumination to increase the probability in target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Stefan Frick , Alex McMillan , John Rarity

We propose an alternative scheme for phase estimation in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) with photon recycling. It is demonstrated that with the same coherent-state input and homodyne detection, our proposal possesses a phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-20 Dong Li , Chun-Hua Yuan , Xiaoping Ma , Qingle Wang , Hwang Lee , Yao Yao , Weiping Zhang

We provide a quantum benchmark for teleportation and storage of single-mode squeezed states with zero displacement and a completely unknown degree of squeezing along a given direction. For pure squeezed input states, a fidelity higher than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-29 Gerardo Adesso , Giulio Chiribella

Interference is fundamental to wave dynamics and quantum mechanics. The quantum wave properties of particles are exploited in metrology using atom interferometers, allowing for high-precision inertia measurements [1, 2]. Furthermore, the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-09-14 Christian Gross , Tilman Zibold , Eike Nicklas , Jerome Esteve , Markus K. Oberthaler

We propose to use the antisqueezing-enhanced non-Gaussian Schr\"odinger cat quantum states of the probing light for the task of detection of a given phase shift in optical interferometers. We show that the antisqueezing allows to increase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 V. L. Gorshenin , K. D. Dyadkin , S. D. Chikalkin

Rydberg atoms have been shown remarkable performance in sensing microwave field. The sensitivity of such an electrometer based on optical readout of atomic ensemble has been demonstrated to approach the photon-shot-noise limit. However, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Shuhe Wu , Dong Zhang , Zhengchun Li , Minwei Shi , Peiyu Yang , Jinxian Guo , Wei Du , Guzhi Bao , Weiping Zhang

The quantum noise of the light field is a fundamental noise source in interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Injected squeezed light is capable of reducing the quantum noise contribution to the detector noise floor to values that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Schnabel , J. Harms , K. A. Strain , K. Danzmann

Cavity enhanced light scattering off an ultracold gas in an optical lattice constitutes a quantum measurement with a controllable form of the measurement back-action. Time-resolved counting of scattered photons alters the state of the atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-09 Igor B. Mekhov , Helmut Ritsch

Quantum noise limits the sensitivity of optical measurements, but squeezed states of light enable quantum-enhanced metrology, sensing, and information processing. Most on-chip squeezed-light sources rely on Kerr ($\chi^{(3)}$)…

Although SU(1,1) interferometry achieves Heisenberg-limited sensitivities, it suffers from one major drawback: only those particles outcoupled from the pump mode contribute to the phase measurement. Since the number of particles outcoupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 Stuart S. Szigeti , Robert J. Lewis-Swan , Simon A. Haine

High-precision gyroscopes are a key component of inertial navigation systems. By considering matter wave gyroscopes that make use of entanglement it should be possible to gain some advantages in terms of sensitivity, size, and resources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 L. M. Rico-Gutierrez , T. P. Spiller , J. A. Dunningham

The resonant enhancement of both mechanical and optical response in microcavity optomechanical devices allows exquisitely sensitive measurements of stimuli such as acceleration, mass and magnetic fields. In this work, we show that quantum…

Quantum metrology employs quantum resources to enhance the measurement sensitivity beyond that can be achieved classically. While multi-photon entangled NOON states can in principle beat the shot-noise limit and reach the Heisenberg limit,…

The quantum correlation of light and atomic collective excitation can be used to compose an SU(1,1)-type hybrid light-atom interferometer, where one arm in optical SU(1,1) interferometer is replaced by the atomic collective excitation. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Hongmei Ma , Dong Li , Chun-Hua Yuan , L. Q. Chen , Z. Y. Ou , Weiping Zhang

Squeezed light is injected into the dark port of gravitational wave interferometers, in order to reduce the quantum noise. A fraction of the interferometer output light can reach the OPO due to sub-optimal isolation of the squeezing…