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The Cram\'er-Rao bound and the quantum Fisher information have been tools used extensively for interferometric phase sensitivity. Most scenarios considering a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with two input sources focused on the phase-matched…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Anca Preda , Stefan Ataman

A two-step detection strategy is suggested for the precise measurement of the optical phase-shift. In the first step an unsharp, however, unbiased joint measurement of the phase and photon number is performed by heterodyning the signal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Chizhov , V. De Renzi , M. G. A. Paris

Time-resolved atom interferometry, as employed in applications such as gravitational wave detection and searches for ultra-light dark matter, requires precise control over systematic effects. In this work, we investigate phase noise arising…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Noam Mouelle , Jeremiah Mitchell , Valerie Gibson , Ulrich Schneider

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

Estimating multiple parameters simultaneously is of great importance to measurement science and application. For a single parameter, atomic Ramsey interferometry (or equivalently optical Mach-Zehnder interferometry) is capable of providing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-09 Xinwei Li , Jia-Hao Cao , Qi Liu , Meng Khoon Tey , Li You

Multiphoton absorption is of vital importance in many spectroscopic, microscopic or lithographic applications. However, given that it is an inherently weak process, the detection of multiphoton absorption signals typically requires large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Shahram Panahiyan , Carlos Sánchez Muñoz , Maria V. Chekhova , Frank Schlawin

We experimentally demonstrate a nonlinear detection scheme exploiting time-reversal dynamics that disentangles continuous variable entangled states for feasible readout. Spin-exchange dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates is used as the…

Quantum interferometers offer phase measurement capabilities that surpass the standard quantum limit (SQL), with phase sensitivity and quantum enhancement factor serving as key performance metrics. However, practical implementations face…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jie Zhao , Zeliang Wu , Haoran Liu , Yueya Liu , Xin Chen , Xinyun Liang , Wenfeng Huang , Chun-Hua Yuan , L. Q. Chen

In this letter, we propose a quantum integrated sensing and communication scheme for a quantum optical link using binary phase-shift keying modulation and homodyne detection. The link operates over a phase-insensitive Gaussian channel with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ioannis Krikidis

We find a large class of pure and mixed input states with which the phase estimation precision saturates the Cramer-Rao bound under the compound measurements of parity and particle number. We further propose a quantum-phase-estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-23 Haijun Xing , Libin Fu , Su Yi

We present a simple and robust design for a squeezing-enhanced Sagnac interferometer that employs the concept of SU(1,1) interference to significantly surpass the classical sensitivity limit (shot-noise limit - SNL) in rotational sensing.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Michal Natan , Saar Levin , Avi Pe'er

We theoretically study the effect of quantum statistics of the light field on the quantum enhancement of parameter estimation based on cat state input the SU(1,1) interferometer. The phase sensitivity is dependent on the relative phase…

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

We propose to use the antisqueezing-enhanced non-Gaussian Schr\"odinger cat quantum states of the probing light for the task of detection of a given phase shift in optical interferometers. We show that the antisqueezing allows to increase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 V. L. Gorshenin , K. D. Dyadkin , S. D. Chikalkin

Active interferometers are designed to enhance phase sensitivity beyond the standard quantum limit by generating entanglement inside the interferometer. An atomic version of such a device can be constructed by means of a spinor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Michael Kastner , Vincent Menet , Johannes N. Kriel

Nonlinear quantum metrology schemes can lead to faster than Heisenberg limited scalings for the measurement uncertainty. We study a Michelson interferometer embedded in a Kerr medium [Luis and Rivas, Phys. Rev. A 92, 022104 (2015)] that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Bijoy John Mathew , Anil Shaji

We address the joint estimation of the two defining parameters of a displacement operation in phase space. In a measurement scheme based on a Gaussian probe field and two homodyne detectors, it is shown that both conjugated parameters can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 M. G. Genoni , M. G. A. Paris , G. Adesso , H. Nha , P. L. Knight , M. S. Kim

We present a noise estimation and subtraction algorithm capable of increasing the sensitivity of heterodyne laser interferometers by one order of magnitude. The heterodyne interferometer is specially designed for dynamic measurements of a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-13 Yanqi Zhang , Adam Hines , Guillermo Valdes , Felipe Guzman

Enhanced Raman scattering can be obtained by injecting a seeded light field which is correlated with the initially prepared collective atomic excitation. This Raman amplification process can be used to realize atom-light hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Zhao-Dan Chen , Chun-Hua Yuan , Hong-Mei Ma , Dong Li , L. Q. Chen , Z. Y. Ou , Weiping Zhang

We present an absolute distance measurement interferometer based on a two wavelength interferometer and a variable synthetic wavelength technique. The wavelength scanning range was 12 GHz, realized with a phase accuracy of 1.0 m{\lambda} by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-02-25 Yoshiyuki Kuramoto , Hiroshi Okuda