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Realisation of experiments even on small and medium-scale quantum computers requires an optimisation of several parameters to achieve high-fidelity operations. As the size of the quantum register increases, the characterisation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 F. Martínez-García , D. Vodola , M. Müller

We predict that the phase-dependent error distribution of locally unentangled quantum states directly affects quantum parameter estimation accuracy. Therefore, we employ the displaced squeezed vacuum (DSV) state as a probe state and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Zhiwei Tao , Yichong Ren , Azezigul Abdukirim , Shiwei Liu , Ruizhong Rao

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

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

We study the precise phase estimation using squeezed states with photon losses present. Our exact quantum Fisher information calculation shows significant quantum enhancement and thus reveals the benchmark for practical quantum metrology in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-13 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Yu-Xiang Yang , Xiang-Bin Wang

Quantum metrology has an important role in the fields of quantum optics and quantum information processing. Here we introduce a kind of non-Gaussian state, Laguerre excitation squeezed state as input of traditional Mach-Zehnder…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Zekun Zhao , Huan Zhang , Yibing Huang , Liyun Hu

We propose an adiabatic Ramsey interferometry technique for detecting weak nonlinearities with trapped ions. The method relies on using the quantum Rabi model as a probe, which is sensitive to nonlinear symmetry-breaking perturbations. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Venelin P. Pavlov , Bogomila S. Nikolova , Peter A. Ivanov

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

This paper is an algorithmic study of quantum phase estimation with multiple eigenvalues. We present robust multiple-phase estimation (RMPE) algorithms with Heisenberg-limited scaling. The proposed algorithms improve significantly from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 Haoya Li , Hongkang Ni , Lexing Ying

Using multi-photon entangled input states, we estimate the phase uncertainty in a noiseless Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) using photon-counting detection. We assume a flat prior uncertainty and use Bayesian inference to construct a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 Shreyas Sadugol , Lev Kaplan

Quantum metrology promises phase sensitivity surpassing the shot-noise limit by exploiting entanglement and photon-number correlations. NOON states-maximally path-entangled $N$-photon superpositions $(|N,0\rangle + |0,N\rangle)/\sqrt{2}$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Simanshu Kumar , Nandan S Bisht

We study a nonlinear interferometer consisting of two consecutive parametric amplifiers, where all three optical fields (pump, signal and idler) are treated quantum mechanically, allowing for pump depletion and other quantum phenomena. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Jefferson Flórez , Enno Giese , Davor Curic , Lambert Giner , Robert W. Boyd , Jeff S. Lundeen

Quantum parameter estimation is central to many fields such as quantum computation, communications and metrology. Optimal estimation theory has been instrumental in achieving the best accuracy in quantum parameter estimation, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Shibdas Roy , Ian R. Petersen , Elanor H. Huntington

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

Quantum parameter estimation has many applications, from gravitational wave detection to quantum key distribution. We present the first experimental demonstration of the time-symmetric technique of quantum smoothing. We consider both…

The quantum stochastic phase estimation has many applications in the precise measurement of various physical parameters. Similar to the estimation of a constant phase, there is a standard quantum limit for stochastic phase estimation, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-02 Kaimin Zheng , Minghao Mi , Ben Wang , Liyun Hu , Shengshuai Liu , Yanbo Lou , Jietai Jing , Lijian Zhang

We propose an interferometric scheme for the estimation of a linear combination with non-negative weights of an arbitrary number $M>1$ of unknown phase delays, distributed across an $M$-channel linear optical network, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Dario Gatto , Paolo Facchi , Frank Narducci , Vincenzo Tamma

In the present study, time evolution of quantum Cramer-Rao bound of entangled N00N state, as phase sensitivity, is determined by the aid of quantum estimation theory in the presence decoherence channels. Also, the dynamic quantum process as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Farzam Nosraty

Bose Einstein Condensates, with their coherence properties, have attracted wide interest for their possible application to ultra precise interferometry and ultra weak force sensors. Since condensates, unlike photons, are interacting, they…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Pezze' , L. A. Collins A. Smerzi , G. P. Berman , A. R. Bishop

Interferometry with quantum light is known to provide enhanced precision for estimating a single phase. However, depending on the parameters involved, the quantum limit for the simultaneous estimation of multiple parameters may not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-07 Philip J. D. Crowley , Animesh Datta , Marco Barbieri , Ian A. Walmsley