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Atom interferometers are very sensitive to accelerations and rotations. This property, which has some very interesting applications, induces a deleterious phase noise due to the seismic noise of the laboratory and this phase noise is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 A. Miffre , M. Jacquey , M. Büchner , G. Trénec , J. Vigué

Manipulating cold atoms in traps is a key tool for numerous realizations of quantum simulators and quantum sensors. They require accurate modeling and characterization of the underlying trapping potentials. We introduce a technique based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Alexander Wolf , Maxim A. Efremov

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

In an unseeded SU(1,1) interferometer composed of two cascaded degenerate parametric amplifiers, with direct detection at the output, we demonstrate a phase sensitivity overcoming the shot noise limit by 2.3 dB. The interferometer is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Mathieu Manceau , Gerd Leuchs , Farid Khalili , Maria Chekhova

Here, an enhanced frequency noise discriminator is proposed using a cavity-coupled Mach-Zehnder interferometer and demonstrated on a general-purpose programmable integrated photonics platform. The frequency noise measurement sensitivity is…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-19 Mohamad Hossein Idjadi , Andrea Blanco-Redondo

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

The super-sensitivity attained in quantum phase estimation is known to be compromised in the presence of decoherence. This is particularly patent at blind spots -- phase values at which sensitivity is totally lost. One remedy is to use a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Walker Larson , Bahaa Saleh

We consider an SU(1,1) interferometer employing four-wave mixers that is fed with two-mode states which are both coherent and intelligent states of the SU(1,1) Lie group. It is shown that the phase sensitivity of the interferometer can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. Brif , Y. Ben-Aryeh

This paper explores the sensitivity gains afforded by spin-squeezed states in atom interferometry, in particular using Bragg diffraction. We introduce a generalised input-output formalism that accurately describes realistic, non-unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Julian Günther , Jan-Niclas Kirsten-Siemß , Naceur Gaaloul , Klemens Hammerer

Interferometers are crucial for precision measurements, including gravitational waves, laser ranging, radar, and imaging. The phase sensitivity, the core parameter, can be quantum-enhanced to break the standard quantum limit (SQL) using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Wenfeng Huang , Xinyun Liang , Baiqiang Zhu , Yuhan Yan , Chun-Hua Yuan , Weiping Zhang , Liqing Chen

We have demonstrated displacement- and frequency-noise free laser interferometry (DFI) by partially implementing a recently proposed optical configuration using bi-directional Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZI). This partial implementation,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Shuichi Sato , Seiji Kawamura , Keiko Kokeyama , Robert L. Ward , Yanbei Chen , Archana Pai , Kentaro Somiya

In the field of quantum precision measurement, enhancing phase sensitivity is crucial for various applications, including quantum metrology and quantum sensing technologies. We theoretically investigate the improvement in phase sensitivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Tao Jiang , Zekun Zhao , Qingqian Kang , Teng Zhao , Nanrun Zhou , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

Quantum metrology is the state-of-the-art measurement technology. It uses quantum resources to enhance the sensitivity of phase estimation beyond what reachable within classical physics. While single parameter estimation theory has been…

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 setup to perform sub shot noise measurements of the phase quadrature for intense pulsed light without the use of a separate local oscillator. A Mach--Zehnder interferometer with an unbalanced arm length is used to detect the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Glöckl , U. L. Andersen , S. Lorenz , Ch. Silberhorn , N. Korolkova , G. Leuchs

Multi-frequency interferometry (MFI) is well known as an accurate phase-based measurement scheme. The paper reveals the inherent relationship of the unambiguous measurement range (UMR), the outlier probability, the MSE performance with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Li Wei , Wangdong Qi

Wavefront sensing involves estimating the phase and intensity of light, enabling a wide range of imaging applications, from adaptive optics and astronomy to biomedical imaging. Since conventional image sensors can only measure the spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Nebiyou Yismaw , Vishwanath Saragadam , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , M. Salman Asif

Compact interferometers, called phasemeters, make it possible to operate over a large range while ensuring a high resolution. Such performance is required for the stabilization of large instruments dedicated to experimental physics such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-03 Jennifer Watchi , Sam Cooper , Binlei Ding , Conor M. Mow-Lowry , Christophe Collette

Ramsey interferometry is a widely used tool for precisely measuring transition frequencies between two energy levels of a quantum system, with applications in time-keeping, precision spectroscopy, quantum optics, and quantum information.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 H. Hainzer , D. Kiesenhofer , T. Ollikainen , M. Bock , F. Kranzl , M. K. Joshi , G. Yoeli , R. Blatt , T. Gefen , C. F. Roos

We analytically investigate the sensitivity of Kerr nonlinear phase estimation in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with two-mode squeezed vacuum states. We find that such a metrological scheme could access a sensitivity scaling over the Boixo…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Yun-Feng Guo , Wei Zhong , Lan Zhou , Yu-Bo Sheng