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We present experimental and theoretical results on a new interferometer topology that nests a SU(2) interferometer, e.g., a Mach-Zehnder or Michelson interferometer, inside a SU(1,1) interferometer, i.e., a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 Wei Du , Jia Kong , Jun Jia , Sheng Ming , Chun-Hua Yuan , J. F. Chen , Z. Y. Ou , Morgan W. Mitchell , Weiping Zhang

We analyze theoretically and experimentally cases of asymmetric detection, stimulation, and loss within a quantum nonlinear interferometer of entangled pairs. We show that the visibility of the SU(1,1) interference directly discerns between…

Phase measurement using a lossless Mach-Zehnder interferometer with certain entangled $N$-photon states can lead to a phase sensitivity of the order of 1/N, the Heisenberg limit. However, previously considered output measurement schemes are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yang Gao , Hwang Lee

We provide a general theoretical derivation of the phase sensitivity achieved by SU(1,1) interferometers under homodyne detection. The general expressions obtained accommodate arbitrary input states and include internal and external losses.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Sonu Jana , Dhruv Baheti , Paul Grossiord , Fabien Bretenaker , Nadia Belabas , Syamsundar De

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

In this paper, we derive a general expression of the quantum Fisher information of an SU(1,1) interferometer with an arbitrary state and a Fock state as inputs by the phase-averaging method. Our results show that the same quantum Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Shuai Wang , Jian-Dong Zhang , Xue-Xiang Xu

Breaking the standard quantum limit in the sensing of parameters at different spatial locations, such as in a quantum network, is of great importance. Using the framework of quantum Fisher information, many strategies based on squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Girish S. Agarwal

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

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…

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

Phase super-sensitivity is obtained when the sensitivity in a phase measurement goes beyond the quantum shot noise limit, whereas super-resolution is obtained when the interference fringes in an interferometer are narrower than half the…

In quantum parameter estimation, the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound (QCRB) sets a fundamental limit on the precision achievable with unbiased estimators. It relates the uncertainty in estimating a parameter to the inverse of the quantum Fisher…

The SU(1,1) interferometer introduced by Yurke, McCall, Klauder is reformulated starting from the Hamiltonian of two identical optical downconversion processes with opposite pump phases. From the four optical modes, two are singled out up…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 T. J. Volkoff

Multimode integrated interferometers have great potential for both spectral engineering and metrological applications. However, material dispersion of integrated platforms constitutes an obstacle which limits the performance and precision…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-13 Alessandro Ferreri , Polina R. Sharapova

We propose a phase estimation protocol for optical interferometry that employs a probe state (containing on average n photons) obtained by squeezing each mode, separately, of a single photon path entangled Bell state. This scheme involves a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-06 Jaspreet Sahota , Daniel F. V. James

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

We study a Mach-Zehnder interferometer fed by a coherent state in one input port and vacuum in the other. We explore a Bayesian phase estimation strategy to demonstrate that it is possible to achieve the standard quantum limit independently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Pezze , A. Smerzi , G. Khoury , J. F. Hodelin , D. Bouwmeester

We theoretically present the quantum Cram\'{e}r-Rao bounds (QCRB) of an SU(1,1) interferometer for Gaussian states input with and without the internal photonic losses. The phase shifts in the single arm and in the double arms are studied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Qian-Kun Gong , Dong Li , Chun-Hua Yuan , Z. Y. Ou , Weiping Zhang

It is known that quantum interference can disappear with the mere possibility of distinguishability without actually performing the act. We create such distinguishability in an unbalanced SU(1,1) interferometer and indeed observe no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Nan Huo , Liang Cui , Yunxiao Zhang , Wen Zhao , Xueshi Guo , Z. Y. Ou , Xiaoying Li

Quantum entanglement is a resource in quantum metrology that can be distributed to two orthogonal physical quantities for the enhancement of their joint measurement sensitivity, as demonstrated in quantum dense metrology. On the other hand,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-11 Yuhong Liu , Nan Huo , Jiamin Li , Liang Cui , Xiaoying Li , Z. Y. Ou