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The quantum Fisher information (QFI) in SU(2) and SU(1,1) interferometers was considered, and the QFI-only calculation was overestimated. In general, the phase estimation as a two-parameter estimation problem, and the quantum Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Jie Zeng , Dong Li , L. Q. Chen , Weiping Zhang , Chun-Hua Yuan

We theoretically study the phase sensitivity of the SU(1,1) interferometer with a coherent light together with a squeezed vacuum input case using the method of homodyne. We find that the homodyne detection has better sensitivity than the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 Dong Li , Chun-Hua Yuan , Z. Y. Ou , Weiping Zhang

Quantum noise limits the sensitivity of interferometric measurements. It is generally admitted that it leads to an ultimate sensitivity, the ``standard quantum limit''. Using a semi-classical analysis of quantum noise, we show that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-01 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

The success of quantum technologies is intimately connected to the possibility of using them in real-world applications. To this aim, we study the sensing capabilities of quantum SU(1,1) interferometers in the single-photon-pair regime and…

Atom interferometers provide exquisite measurements of the properties of non-inertial frames. While atomic interactions are typically detrimental to good sensing, efforts to harness entanglement to improve sensitivity remain tantalizing.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-11-15 Stephen Ragole , Jacob M. Taylor

Multimode quantum light has promising applications in many areas of physics, such as quantum communications and quantum computing. However, its multimode nature also makes it challenging to measure its properties. Recently [Optica Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 D. Scharwald , P. R. Sharapova

Quantum squeezed states offer metrological enhancement as compared to their classical counterparts. Here, we devise and numerically explore a novel method for performing SU(1,1) interferometry beyond the standard quantum limit, using…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-25 Ivor Krešić , Thorsten Ackemann

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 demonstrate optical coherence tomography based on an SU(1,1) nonlinear interferometer with high-gain parametric down-conversion. For imaging and sensing applications, this scheme promises to outperform previous experiments working at low…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-31 Gerard J. Machado , Gaetano Frascella , Juan P. Torres , Maria V. Chekhova

The classically defined minimum uncertainty of the optical phase is known as the standard quantum limit or shot-noise limit (SNL) originating in the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. Based on SNL, the phase sensitivity is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Byoung S. Ham

The ability to perform high-precision optical measurements is paramount to science and engineering. Laser interferometry enables interaction-free sensing with a precision ultimately limited by shot noise. Quantum optical sensors can surpass…

Quantum metrology seeks to leverage the richness of quantum systems for making better measurements than are possible using only classical resources in order to gain a ``quantum advantage''. Quantum metrology schemes must also be resilient…

Within the quantum phase representation we derive Heisenberg limits, in closed form, for N00N states and two other classes of states that can perform better in terms of local performance metrics relevant for multiply-peaked distributions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Scott Roger Shepard , Frederick Ira Moxley , Jonathan P. Dowling

The use of special quantum states to achieve sensitivities below the limits established by classically behaving states has enjoyed immense success since its inception. In bosonic interferometers, squeezed states, number states and cat…

The measurement of physical parameters is one of the main pillars of science. A classic example is the measurement of the optical phase enabled by optical interferometry where the best sensitivity achievable with N photons scales as 1/N -…

We present a new operator method in the Heisenberg representation to obtain the signal of parity measurement within a lossless SU(1,1) interferometer. Based on this method, it is convenient to derive the parity signal directly in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Shuai Wang , Jiandong Zhang

Multi-photon quantum interference is the underlying principle for optical quantum information processing protocols. Indistinguishability is the key to quantum interference. Therefore, the success of many protocols in optical quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Liang Cui , Jie Su , Jiamin Li , Yuhong Liu , Xiaoying Li , Z. Y. Ou

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

Classical interferometers are indispensable tools for the precise determination of various physical quantities. Their accuracy is bound by the standard quantum limit. This limit can be overcome by using quantum states or nonlinear quantum…

Non-classical states of light find applications in enhancing the performance of optical interferometric experiments, with notable example of gravitational wave-detectors. Still, the presence of decoherence hinders significantly the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-17 R. Demkowicz-Dobrzanski , M. Jarzyna , J. Kolodynski