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Sensing and metrology play an important role in fundamental science and applications by fulfilling the ever-present need for more precise data sets and by allowing researchers to make more reliable conclusions on the validity of theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Sergey Danilin , Nicholas Nugent , Martin Weides

Technologies for manipulating single atoms have advanced drastically in the past decades. Due to their excellent controllability of internal states, atoms serve as one of the ideal platforms as quantum systems. One major research direction…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Akio Kawasaki

Quantum metrology exploits entangled states of particles to improve sensing precision beyond the limit achievable with uncorrelated particles. All previous methods required detection noise levels below this standard quantum limit to realize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 O. Hosten , R. Krishnakumar , N. J. Engelsen , M. A. Kasevich

Balancing high sensitivity with a broad dynamic range is a fundamental challenge in measurement science, as improving one often compromises the other. While traditional quantum metrology has prioritized enhancing local sensitivity, a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Qi Liu , Ming Xue , Matthew Radzihovsky , Xinwei Li , Denis V. Vasilyev , Ling-Na Wu , Vladan Vuletić

Optomechanical sensors are capable of transducing external perturbations to resolvable optical signals. A particular regime of interest is that of high-bandwidth force detection, where an impulse is delivered to the system over a short…

Quantum sensing utilizes quantum systems as sensors to capture weak signal, and provides new opportunities in nowadays science and technology. The strongest adversary in quantum sensing is decoherence due to the coupling between the sensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Yijin Xie , Jianpei Geng , Huiyao Yu , Xing Rong , Ya Wang , Jiangfeng Du

We investigate the use of twin-mode quantum states of light with symmetric statistical features in their photon number for improving intensity-sensitive surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors. For this purpose, one of the modes is sent…

In the field of quantum metrology and sensing, a collection of quantum systems (e.g. spins) are used as a probe to estimate some physical parameter (e.g. magnetic field). It is usually assumed that there are no interactions between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Shane Dooley , Michael Hanks , Shojun Nakayama , William J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

Quantum metrology promises high-precision measurements beyond the capability of any classical techniques, and has the potential to be integral to investigative techniques. However, all sensors must tolerate imperfections if they are to be…

Nonclassical states are essential for optics-based quantum information processing, but their fragility limits their utility for practical scenarios in which loss and noise inevitably degrade, if not destroy, nonclassicality. Exploiting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-25 Zheshen Zhang , Sara Mouradian , Franco N. C. Wong , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

The resonant enhancement of both mechanical and optical response in microcavity optomechanical devices allows exquisitely sensitive measurements of stimuli such as acceleration, mass and magnetic fields. In this work, we show that quantum…

Quantum-correlated interferometer is a newly emerging tool in quantum technology that offers classical-limit-breaking phase sensitivity. But to date, there exists a configurational bottleneck for its practicability due to the low…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Wei Du , Shuhe Wu , Dong Zhang , Jun Chen , Yiquan Yang , Peiyu Yang , Jinxian Guo , Guzhi Bao , Weiping Zhang

Sensing of parameters is an important aspect in all disciplines, with applications ranging from fundamental science to medicine. Quantum sensing and metrology is an emerging field that lies at the cross-roads of quantum physics, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Keshav Das Agarwal , Sayan Mondal , Ayan Sahoo , Debraj Rakshit , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

Quantum Metrology is one of the most promising application of quantum technologies. The aim of this research field is the estimation of unknown parameters exploiting quantum resources, whose application can lead to enhanced performances…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-13 Emanuele Polino , Mauro Valeri , Nicolò Spagnolo , Fabio Sciarrino

We describe a method to enhance the sensitivity of precision measurements that takes advantage of a quantum sensor's environment to amplify its response to weak external perturbations. An individual qubit is used to sense the dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 G. Goldstein , P. Cappellaro , J. R. Maze , J. S. Hodges , L. Jiang , A. S. Sørensen , M. D. Lukin

Sensing and metrology play an important role in fundamental science and applications, by fulfilling the ever-present need for more precise data sets, and by allowing to make more reliable conclusions on the validity of theoretical models.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 S. Danilin , M. Weides

Quantum coherence is critical resource for applications in quantum technology, among which quantum-enhanced sensing represents a typical example.Compared with quantum metrology with entangled states of multiple qubits, bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Xiao-Wei Zheng , Jun-Cong Zheng , Xue-Feng Pan , Pengbo Li

Quantum sensing is commonly described as a constrained optimization problem: maximize the information gained about an unknown quantity using a limited number of particles. Important sensors including gravitational-wave interferometers and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Morgan W. Mitchell

We propose a theoretical scheme to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio in ultrasensitive detection with the help of quantum correlation. By introducing the auxiliary oscillator and treated as an added probe for weak field detection, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Wen-Zhao Zhang , Li-Bo Chen , Jiong Cheng , Yun-Feng Jiang

The applications of spin-based quantum sensors to measurements probing fundamental physics are surveyed. Experimental methods and technologies developed for quantum information science have rapidly advanced in recent years, and these tools…