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We study a diffusion model of phase field type, consisting of a system of two partial differential equations encoding the balances of microforces and microenergy; the two unknowns are the order parameter and the chemical potential. By a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-24 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Juergen Sprekels

A major obstacle to attain the fundamental precision limit of the phase estimation in an interferometry is the identification and implementation of the optimal measurement. Here we demonstrate that this can be accomplished by the use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Wei Zhong , Yixiao Huang , Xiaoguang Wang , Shi-Liang Zhu

Many-body quantum systems can exhibit collective effects that enhance the sensitivity of parameter estimation protocols. An example is provided by resonantly driven two-level atoms subject to collective dissipation, which can display a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Albert Cabot , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

In this letter, we show that for all the so-called path-symmetric states, the measurement of parity of photon number at the output of an optical interferometer achieves maximal phase sensitivity at the quantum Cramer-Rao bound. Such optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Sejong Kim , Kaushik P. Seshadreesan , Jonathan P. Dowling , Hwang Lee

In this article we derive a measure of quantumness in quantum multi-parameter estimation problems. We can show that the ratio between the mean Uhlmann Curvature and the Fisher Information provides a figure of merit which estimates the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Angelo Carollo , Bernardo Spagnolo , Alexander A. Dubkov , Davide Valenti

An exact analytical solution of the statistical multifragmentation model is found in thermodynamic limit. Excluded volume effects are taken into account in the thermodynamically self-consistent way. The model exhibits a 1-st order phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Bugaev , M. I. Gorenstein , I. N. Mishustin , W. Greiner

We study the issue of simultaneous estimation of several phase shifts induced by commuting operators on a quantum state. We derive the optimal positive operator-valued measure corresponding to the multiple-phase estimation. In particular,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chiara Macchiavello

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…

Peculiarities of multiqubit measurement are for the most part similar to peculiarities of measurement for qudit -- quantum object with finite-dimensional Hilbert space. Three different interpretations of measurement concept are analysed.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Constantin Usenko

Time-resolved atom interferometry, as employed in applications such as gravitational wave detection and searches for ultra-light dark matter, requires precise control over systematic effects. In this work, we investigate phase noise arising…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Noam Mouelle , Jeremiah Mitchell , Valerie Gibson , Ulrich Schneider

We have previously shown that quantum-enhanced atom interferometry can be achieved by mapping the quantum state of squeezed optical vacuum to one of the atomic inputs via a beamsplitter-like process [Phys.~Rev.~A \textbf{90}, 063630…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 Behnam Tonekaboni , Simon A. Haine , Stuart S. Szigeti

Quantum sensing using non-linear interferometers offers the possibility of bicolour imaging, using light that never interacted with the object of interest, and provides a way to achieve phase supersensitivity, i.e. a Heisenberg-type scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Simon Schaffrath , Daniel Derr , Markus Gräfe , Enno Giese

The Mach-Zehnder interferometer is a fundamental tool for measuring phase shifts between two light paths, serving as a crucial prototype for achieving high-precision measurements in various scientific and technological applications. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Bing-Shu Hu , Xiao-Ming Lu

Unlike well-established parameter estimation, function estimation faces conceptual and mathematical difficulties despite its enormous potential utility. We establish the fundamental error bounds on function estimation in quantum metrology…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Naoto Kura , Masahito Ueda

Measurements of the birefringence of a single atom strongly coupled to a high-finesse optical resonator are reported, with nonlinear phase shifts observed for intracavity photon number much less than one. A proposal to utilize the measured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Q. A. Turchette , C. J. Hood , W. Lange , H. Mabuchi , H. J. Kimble

We derive an expression for the phase shift of an atom interferometer in a gravitational field taking into account both the finite duration of the light pulses and the effect of a small perturbing potential added to a stronger uniform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 A. Bertoldi , F. Minardi , M. Prevedelli

In general, classical measurement statistics of a quantum measurement is disturbed by performing an additional incompatible quantum measurement beforehand. Using this observation, we introduce a state-independent definition of disturbance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 S. S. Zhou , Shengjun Wu , H. F. Chau

The quantum statistical fluctuations of the electromagnetic field establish a limit, known as the shot-noise limit, on the sensitivity of optical measurements performed with classical technologies. However, quantum technologies are not…

Single-slit and two-slit interferometer measurements of electrons are analyzed within the realistic model of particle propagation. In a step by step procedure we show that all current models of interference are essentially non-local and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. A. Hofer

Scheme for optimal spin state estimation is considered in analogy with phase detection in interferometry. Recently reported coherent measurements yielding the average fidelity (N+1)/(N+2) for N particle system corresponds to the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Z. Hradil , M. Dusek