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Particle-wave duality enables the construction of interferometers for matter waves, which complement optical interferometers in precision measurement devices. This requires the development of atom-optics analogs to beam splitters, phase…

A methodology is introduced that enables an absolute, quantum-limited measurement of sub-wavelength interferometric displacements. The technique utilizes a high-frequency optical path modulation within an interferometer operated in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-12 Valérian Thiel , Pu Jian , Claude Fabre , Nicolas Treps , Jonathan Roslund

A new type of quantum entangled interferometer was recently realized that employs parametric amplifiers as the wave splitting and recombination elements. The quantum entanglement stems from the parametric amplifiers, which produce quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-21 Z. Y. Ou , Xiaoying Li

Quantum detector properties of the quantum point contact (QPC) are analyzed for arbitrary electron transparency and coupling strength to the measured system and are shown to be determined by the electron counting statistics. Conditions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitri V. Averin , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

The entanglement of coherently split electron-hole pairs in an electronic conductor is typically not considered accessible due to particle number conservation and fermionic super-selection rules. We demonstrate here that current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 David Dasenbrook , Christian Flindt

Precise measurements in optical and atomic systems often rely on differential interferometry. This method allows to handle large and correlated phase noise contributions -- such as environmental vibrations, thermal fluctuations, or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Luca Pezzè , Andrea Santoni , Chiara Mazzinghi , Marco Fattori , Augusto Smerzi

A quantum two-path interferometer allows for direct measurement of the transmission phase shift of an electron, providing useful information on coherent scattering problems. In mesoscopic systems, however, the two-path interference is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 S. Takada , M. Yamamoto , C. Bäuerle , K. Watanabe , A. Ludwig , A. D. Wieck , S. Tarucha

We derive the full counting statistics of charge transfer through a voltage biased superconducting junction. We find that for measurement times much longer than the inverse Josephson frequency, the counting statistics describes a correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Göran Johansson , Peter Samuelsson , Åke Ingerman

Non-equilibrium dynamics of many-body quantum systems under the effect of measurement protocols is attracting an increasing amount of attention. It has been recently revealed that measurements may induce different non-equilibrium regimes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-13 Emanuele Tirrito , Alessandro Santini , Rosario Fazio , Mario Collura

Many-body unitary dynamics interspersed with repeated measurements display a rich phenomenology hallmarked by measurement-induced phase transitions. Employing feedback-control operations that steer the dynamics toward an absorbing state, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-30 Piotr Sierant , Xhek Turkeshi

Measurement of the transmission phase through a quantum dot (QD) embedded in an arm of a two-terminal Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer is inhibited by phase symmetry, i.e. the property that the linear response conductance of a two-terminal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Vadim Puller , Yigal Meir

The recent development of dynamic single-electron sources makes it possible to observe and manipulate the quantum properties of individual charge carriers in mesoscopic circuits. Here, we investigate multi-particle effects in an electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Janne Kotilahti , Pablo Burset , Michael Moskalets , Christian Flindt

We use a novel scanning electron Mach-Zehnder interferometer constructed in a conventional transmission electron microscope to perform inelastic interferometric imaging with free electrons. An electron wave function is prepared in two paths…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Cameron W. Johnson , Amy E. Turner , F. Javier García de Abajo , Benjamin J. McMorran

We propose a multi-parameter quantum metrological protocol based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with a squeezed vacuum input state and an anti-squeezing operation at one of its output channels. A simple and intuitive geometrical picture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Dario Gatto , Paolo Facchi , Vincenzo Tamma

We study fluctuations of electric current in a quantum resistor and derive a general quantum-mechanical formula for the distribution of transmitted charge. For that we introduce a scheme of current measurement that involves a spin $1/2$…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 L. S. Levitov , G. B. Lesovik

Measurement-induced entanglement phase transitions in monitored quantum circuits have stimulated activity in a diverse research community. However, the study of measurement-induced dynamics, due to the requirement of exponentially complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Kim Pöyhönen , Ali G. Moghaddam , Moein N. Ivaki , Teemu Ojanen

We present a detailed theoretical description of quantum coherent electron transport in voltage-biased cross-like Andreev interferometers. Making use of the charge conjugation symmetry encoded in the quasiclassical formalism, we elucidate a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-21 Pavel E. Dolgirev , Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei E. Tarkhov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We study a sensor network of distributed Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) for the parallel (simultaneous) estimation of an arbitrary number $d \geq 1$ of phase shifts. The scheme uses a squeezed-vacuum state that is split between $d$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Marco Malitesta , Augusto Smerzi , Luca Pezzè

We theoretically analyze a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with trapped condensates, and find that it is surprisingly stable against the nonlinearity induced by inter-particle interactions. The phase sensitivity, which we study for number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-17 Julian Grond , Ulrich Hohenester , Joerg Schmiedmayer , Augusto Smerzi

Interference is a powerful tool for measuring and control. In M\"ossbauer science, interference effects are essential to most applications, due to the coherent scattering nature. However, M\"ossbauer interferometry remains challenging, due…