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Photon-number squeezing and correlations enable measurement of absorption with an accuracy exceeding that of the shot-noise limit. However, sub-shot noise imaging and sensing based on these methods require high detection efficiency, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 E. Knyazev , F. Ya. Khalili , M. V. Chekhova

We present a sensing scheme for estimating the frequency difference of two non-entangled photons. The technique consists of time-resolving sampling measurements at the output of a beam splitter. With this protocol, the frequency shift…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Luca Maggio , Danilo Triggiani , Paolo Facchi , Vincenzo Tamma

An exact generalization of the Ramsey transition probability is derived to improve ultra-high precision measurement and quantum state engineering when a particle is subjected to independently-tailored separated oscillating fields. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 T. Zanon-Willette , V. I. Yudin , A. V. Taichenachev

Resonant frequency modulation spectroscopy has been previously used as a highly-sensitive method for measuring the output of cold atom interferometers. Using a detailed model that accounts for optical saturation, laser intensities and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Ryan J. Thomas , Samuel R. Legge , Simon A. Haine , John D. Close

Precise measurement of frequency sensitivity coefficients (FSCs) of some physical effects contributing to uncertainty is an important work in type-B uncertainty (u_B) evaluation of atomic frequency standards. We proposed a method based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Qian Wang , Ning Zhang , Rong Wei , Yuzhu Wang

Atom interferometers are promising tools for precision measurement with applications ranging from geophysical exploration to tests of the equivalence principle of general relativity, or the detection of gravitational waves. Their optimal…

We propose a set of experiments in which Ramsey-fringe techniques are tailored to probe transitions originating and terminating on the same ground state level. When pulses of resonant radiation, separated by a time delay $% T, $ interact…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tycho Sleator , Paul R. Berman , Boris Dubetsky

Ramsey interferometry is a cornerstone technique for precise measurement of time and frequency in modern clocks. The Ramsey experiments are typically done in optically dilute samples of atoms to improve homogeneity and avoid back-action of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 S. A. Moiseev , K. I. Gerasimov , M. M. Minnegaliev , I. V. Brekotkin , E. S. Moiseev

Quantum phase estimation is a paradigmatic problem in quantum sensing andmetrology. Here we show that adaptive methods based on classical machinelearning algorithms can be used to enhance the precision of quantum phase estimation when noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Nelson Filipe Costa , Yasser Omar , Aidar Sultanov , Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

For single-parameter sensing, Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) probes achieve optimal quantum-enhanced precision across the unknown parameter range, solely relying on parameter-independent separable measurement strategies for all values of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Mauricio Gutiérrez , Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Victor Montenegro , Abolfazl Bayat

Schemes to generate Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger(GHZ) and W states of three distant atoms are proposed in this paper. The schemes use the effects of quantum statistics of indistinguishable photons emitted by the atoms inside optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chang-shui Yu , X. X. Yi , He-shan Song , D. Mei

Sophisticated Ramsey-based interrogation protocols using composite laser pulse sequences have been recently proposed to provide next-generation high-precision atomic clocks with a near perfect elimination of frequency shifts induced during…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 M. Shuker , J. W. Pollock , R. Boudot , V. I. Yudin , A. V. Taichenachev , J. Kitching , E. A. Donley

Decoherence often happens in the quantum world. We try to utilize quantum dephasing to build an optimal thermometry. By calculating the Cram$\acute{e}$r-Rao bound, we prove that the Ramsey measurement is the optimal way to measure the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu , Anmin Wang

Large scale quantum information processing requires stable and long-lived quantum memories. Here, using atom-photon entanglement, we propose an experimentally feasible scheme to realize decoherence-free quantum memory with atomic ensembles,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-05 Feng Mei , Ya-Fei Yu , Zhi-Ming Zhang

We consider frequency estimation in a noisy environment with noisy probes. This builds on previous studies, most of which assume that the initial probe state is pure, while the encoding process is noisy, or that the initial probe state is…

Dephasing noise is a ubiquitous source of decoherence in current atomic sensors. We address the problem of entanglement-assisted frequency estimation subject to classical dephasing noise with full spatial correlations (collective) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Francisco Riberi , Gerardo Paz-Silva , Lorenza Viola

We demonstrate that memory in an $N$-qubit system subjected to decoherence, is a potential resource for the slow-down of the entanglement decay. We show that this effect can be used to retain the sub shot-noise sensitivity of the parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-17 P. Szankowski , M. Trippenbach , J. Chwedenczuk

Entanglement-enhanced quantum sensors encounter a fundamental trade-off: while entanglement improves precision to the Heisenberg limit, it restricts dynamic range. To address this trade-off, we present a credible-interval-based adaptive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Jungeng Zhou , Jiahao Huang , Jinye Wei , Chengyin Han , Chaohong Lee

We show that it is possible to reach the sub shot-noise sensitivity of the phase estimation using two independently prepared Bose-Einstein condensates as an input of an interferometer. In this scenario, the quantum correlations between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 T. Wasak , P. Szańkowski , J. Chwedeńczuk

We investigate the optimal tradeoff between information gained about an unknown coherent state and the state disturbance caused by the measurement process. We propose several optical schemes that can enable this task, and we implement one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ulrik L. Andersen , Metin Sabuncu , Radim Filip , Gerd Leuchs