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Quantum sensing is highly attractive for accessing spectral regions in which the detection of photons is technically challenging: sample information is gained in the spectral region of interest and transferred via entanglement into another…

In the standard homodyne configuration, an unknown optical state is combined with a local oscillator (LO) on a beam splitter (BS). Good quadrature measurements require a high-amplitude LO and two high-efficiency photodiodes whose signals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 Arik Avagyan

For near-term quantum devices, an important challenge is to develop efficient methods to certify that noise levels are low enough to allow potentially useful applications to be carried out. We present such a method tailored to photonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Rawad Mezher , Shane Mansfield

The first generation of multi-qubit quantum technologies will consist of noisy, intermediate-scale devices for which active error correction remains out of reach. To exploit such devices, it is thus imperative to use passive error…

We investigate the quantum-secure covert-communication capabilities of lossy thermal-noise bosonic channels, the quantum-mechanical model for many practical channels. We determine the expressions for the covert capacity of these channels:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Christos N. Gagatsos , Michael S. Bullock , Boulat A. Bash

Two-mode interferometers, such as Michelson interferometer based on two spatial optical modes, lay the foundations for quantum metrology. Instead of exploring quantum entanglement in the two-mode interferometers, a single bosonic mode also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 W. Wang , Y. Wu , Y. Ma , W. Cai , L. Hu , X. Mu , Y. Xu , Zi-Jie Chen , H. Wang , Y. P. Song , H. Yuan , C. -L. Zou , L. -M. Duan , L. Sun

Multimode squeezed light is a key resource for high-dimensional photonic quantum technologies, enabling applications in quantum-enhanced sensing, quantum communication, and quantum computing. Efficient detection of such a multimode squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Mahmoud Kalash , Ui-Nyung Han , Young-Sik Ra , Maria V. Chekhova

We study the hypothesis testing problem of distinguishing between correlated thermal noise and uncorrelated thermal noise of the same average energy on $K$ detectors in asymptotic asymmetric hypothesis testing. We compare the performance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Janis Nötzel , Pere Munar-Vallespir

In bosonic quantum metrology, the estimate of a loss parameter is typically performed by means of pure states, such as coherent, squeezed or entangled states, while mixed thermal probes are discarded for their inferior performance. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Gaetana Spedalieri , Cosmo Lupo , Samuel L. Braunstein , Stefano Pirandola

Precision measurements are important across all fields of science. In particular, optical phase measurements can be used to measure distance, position, displacement, acceleration and optical path length. Quantum entanglement enables higher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tomohisa Nagata , Ryo Okamoto , Jeremy L. O'Brien , Keiji Sasaki , Shigeki Takeuchi

Present protocols of criticality-enhanced sensing with open quantum sensors assume direct measurement of the sensor and omit the radiation quanta emitted to the environment, thereby potentially missing valuable information. Here we propose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-04 Theodoros Ilias , Dayou Yang , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

The major resolution-limiting factor in cryoelectron microscopy of unstained biological specimens is radiation damage by the very electrons that are used to probe the specimen structure. To address this problem, an electron microscopy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Hiroshi Okamoto

BosonSampling is a problem where a quantum computer offers a provable speedup over classical computers. Its main feature is that it can be solved with current linear optics technology, without the need for a full quantum computer. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 Anthony Leverrier , Raúl García-Patrón

Optomechanical systems have been exploited in ultrasensitive measurements of force, acceleration, and magnetic fields. The fundamental limits for optomechanical sensing have been extensively studied and now well understood -- the intrinsic…

Compressive sensing is used to perform high-dimensional quantum channel estimation with classical light. As an example, we perform a numerical simulation for the case of a three-dimensional classically non-separable state that is propagated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Chemist M. Mabena , Filippus S. Roux

Quantum sensors have the potential to outperform their classical counterparts. For classical sensing, the uncertainty of the estimation of the target fields scales inversely with the square root of the measurement time T. On the other hand,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Simon Benjamin , Shojun Nakayama , Shiro Saito , William J. Munro

Quantum enhanced receivers are endowed with resources to achieve higher sensitivities than conventional technologies. For application in optical communications, they provide improved discriminatory capabilities for multiple non-orthogonal…

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…

We demonstrate for a passive optical cavity containing a dispersive atomic medium, the increase in scale factor near the critical anomalous dispersion is not cancelled by mode broadening or attenuation, resulting in an overall increase in…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 David D. Smith , H. A. Luckay , Hongrok Chang , Krishna Myneni

In Ref. [Phys. Rev. A 108, 053708], the scheme of quantum non-demolition measurement of optical quanta that uses a resonantly enhanced Kerr nonlinearity in the optical microresonator, pre-squeezing of the probe beam, and its parametric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Dariya Salykina , Stepan Balybin , Farid Ya. Khalili