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Quantum phenomena such as entanglement can improve fundamental limits on the sensitivity of a measurement probe. In optical interferometry, a probe consisting of $N$ entangled photons provides up to a $\sqrt{N}$ enhancement in phase…

SU(1,1) interferometry, proposed in a classic 1986 paper by Yurke, McCall, and Klauder [Phys. Rev. A 33, 4033 (1986)], involves squeezing, displacing, and then unsqueezing two bosonic modes. It has, over the past decade, been implemented in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 Carlton M. Caves

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

The phase resolution of interferometers is limited by the so-called Heisenberg limit, which states that the optimum phase sensitivity is inversely proportional to the number of interfering particles N, a 1/sqrt{N} improvement over the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Uys , P. Meystre

We present in this letter a scheme for optical interferometry. We utilize coherent-beam-stimulated two-mode squeezed light, which interacts with a phase shifter and is then squeezed again before detection. Our theoretical device has the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 William N. Plick , Jonathan P. Dowling , G. S. Agarwal

We investigate the phase sensitivity of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer using a special class of generalized coherent states constructed from generalized Heisenberg and deformed $su(1,1)$ algebras. These states, derived from a perturbed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 N. E. Abouelkhir , A. Slaoui , R. Ahl Laamara

Over the past decade, several schemes for imaging and sensing based on nonlinear interferometers have been proposed and demonstrated experimentally. These interferometers exhibit two main advantages. First, they enable probing a sample at a…

We analyze the operation of a novel sensor based on atom interferometry, which can achieve supra-classical sensitivity by exploiting quantum correlations in mixed states of many qubits. The interferometer is based on quantum gates which use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Calum MacCormick , Silvia Bergamini , Chris Mansell , Hugo Cable , Kavan Modi

A coherent seeded SU(1,1) interferometer provides a prominent technique in the field of precision measurement. We theoretically study the phase sensitivity of SU(1,1) interferometer with Kerr state seeding under single intensity and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Priyanka Sharma , Aviral K. Pandey , Gaurav Shukla , Devendra Kumar Mishra

We theoretically study the effects of loss on the phase sensitivity of an SU(1,1) interferometer with parity detection with various input states. We show that although the sensitivity of phase estimation decreases in the presence of loss,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Dong Li , Chun-hua Yuan , Yao Yao , Wei Jiang , Mo Li , Weiping Zhang

In classical coherence theory, coherence time is typically related to the bandwidth of the optical field. Narrowing the bandwidth will result in the lengthening of the coherence time. This will erase temporal distinguishability of photons…

We propose and demonstrate a polarization-based truncated SU(1,1) interferometer that outputs the desired optical joint-quadrature of a two-mode squeezed vacuum field and allows its measurements using a single balanced homodyne detector.…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-08 Nikunjkumar Prajapati , Irina Novikova

Quantum memories feature a reversible conversion of optical fields into long-lived atomic spin waves, and are therefore ideal for operating as sensitive atomic sensors. However, up to now, atom-light interferometers have lacked an efficient…

The SU(1,1) interferometer was originally conceived as a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with the beam-splitters replaced by parametric amplifiers. The parametric amplifiers produce states with correlations that result in enhanced phase…

We propose a theoretical scheme to improve the precision of phase measurement using intensity detection by implementing delocalized photon subtraction operation (D-PSO) inside the SU(1,1) interferometer, with the coherent state and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Zhihao Li , Qingqian Kang , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu , Chengzhi Deng

With the help of quantum entanglement, quantum dense metrology (QDM) is a technique that can perform the joint estimates of two conjugate quantities such as phase and amplitude modulations of an optical field with an accuracy beating the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Wei Du , J. F. Chen , Z. Y. Ou , Weiping Zhang

We propose and implement a quantum procedure for enhancing the sensitivity with which one can determine the phase shift experienced by a weak light beam possessing thermal statistics in passing through an interferometer. Our procedure…

We consider a class of proposed gravitational wave detectors based on multiple atomic interferometers separated by large baselines and referenced by common laser systems. We compute the sensitivity limits of these detectors due to intrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 John G. Baker , James Ira Thorpe

Quantum sensors based on atom interferometers are advancing both fundamental physics and practical applications, with higher sensitivity being a key requirement for these investigations. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a sensitivity…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Sotatsu Otabe , Naoki Kaku , Tomoya Sato , Martin Miranda , Takuya Kawasaki , Mikio Kozuma

We provide general bounds of phase estimation sensitivity in linear two-mode interferometers. We consider probe states with a fluctuating total number of particles. With incoherent mixtures of state with different total number of particles,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Luca Pezzè , Philipp Hyllus , Augusto Smerzi