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We provide a quantum information description of a proposed five-blade neutron interferometer geometry and show that it is robust against low frequency mechanical vibrations and dephasing due to the dynamical phase. The extent to which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 J. Nsofini , D. Sarenac , K. Ghofrani , M. G. Huber , M. Arif , D. G. Cory , D. A. Pushin

Perfect single-crystal neutron interferometers are adversely sensitive to environmental disturbances, particularly mechanical vibrations. The sensitivity to vibrations results from the slow velocity of thermal neutrons and the long…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-19 Dmitry A. Pushin , Muhammad Arif , David G. Cory

Perfect-crystal neutron interferometry which is analogous to Mach-Zehnder interferometry, uses Bragg diffraction to form interfering neutron paths. The measured phase shifts can be used to probe many types of interactions whether it be…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-27 M. G. Huber , I. Taminiau , D. G. Cory , B. Heacock , D. Sarenac , R. Valdillez , D. A. Pushin

The recent development of phase-grating moir\'e neutron interferometry promises a wide range of impactful experiments from dark-field imaging of material microstructure to precise measurements of fundamental constants. However, the contrast…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-13 B. Heacock , D. Sarenac , D. G. Cory , M. G. Huber , D. S. Hussey , C. Kapahi , H. Miao , H. Wen , D. A. Pushin

Perfect-crystal neutron interferometry has been a useful tool in measuring nuclear-interactions, probing fundamental physics, and exploring quantum phenomenon. Historically, neutron interferometry experiments have been carried out at room…

An interferometer design that cancels all displacement noises of its test masses and maintains a gravitational-wave (GW) signal by combining multiple detector signals is called a displacement noise-free interferometer (DFI). The idea has…

For further gravitational wave (GW) detections, it is significant to invent a technique to reduce all kinds of mirror displacement noise dominant at low frequencies for ground-based detectors. The neutron displacement-noise-free…

We study the decoherence of a system of $N$ non-interacting heavy particles (atoms) due to coherent scattering with a background gas. We introduce a framework for computing the induced phase shift and loss of contrast for arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Leonardo Badurina , Clara Murgui , Ryan Plestid

This thesis develops a general theoretical and numerical framework for achieving high-contrast atom interferometry based on double Bragg diffraction (DBD). While DBD offers intrinsic symmetry, reduced sensitivity to internal-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Rui Li

Neutron grating interferometry is an advanced method in neutron imaging that allows the simultaneous recording of the transmission, the differential phase and the dark-field image. Especially the latter has recently received high interest…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-10 Tommy Reimann , Sebastian Mühlbauer , Michael Horisberger , Peter Böni , Michael Schulz

Quantum-enhanced interferometry is often discussed in terms of ideal resources and asymptotic scalings, whereas in practice its performance is set by a delicate interplay between losses, state imbalance, and photon number. We address this…

In this work, inspired by the study of semidefinite programming for block-diagonalizing matrix *-algebras, we propose an algorithm that can find the algebraic structure of decoherence-free subspaces (DFS's) for a given noisy quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 Xiaoting Wang , Mark Byrd , Kurt Jacobs

For a practical quantum computer to operate, it will be essential to properly manage decoherence. One important technique for doing this is the use of "decoherence-free subspaces" (DFSs), which have recently been demonstrated. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masoud Mohseni , Jeffrey S. Lundeen , Kevin J. Resch , Aephraim M. Steinberg

We propose high-contrast Mach-Zehnder atom interferometers based on double Bragg diffraction (DBD) operating under external acceleration. To mitigate differential Doppler shifts and experimental imperfections, we introduce a tri-frequency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Rui Li , Víctor José Martínez-Lahuerta , Naceur Gaaloul , Klemens Hammerer

The improvement of sensitivity to gravitational waves (GWs) at lower frequencies is still challenging on account of displacement noise. One of the solutions is the neutron displacement-noise-free interferometer (DFI). We focus on a…

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

Interferometric-based microscopies stand as powerful label-free approaches for monitoring and characterising chemical reactions and heterogeneous nanoparticle systems in real time with single particle sensitivity. Nevertheless, coherent…

Decoherence free subspaces (DFS) is a theoretical tool towards experimental implementation of quantum information storage and processing. However, they represent an experimental challenge, since conditions for their existence are very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. M. Fonseca Romero , S. G. Mokarzel , M. O. Terra Cunha , M. C. Nemes

The detection of low-frequency gravitational waves on Earth requires the reduction of displacement noise, which dominates the low-frequency band. One method to cancel test mass displacement noise is a neutron displacement-noise-free…

Current laser-interferometric gravitational wave detectors suffer from a fundamental limit to their precision due to the displacement noise of optical elements contributed by various sources. Several schemes for Displacement-Noise Free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Tuvia Gefen , Rajashik Tarafder , Rana X. Adhikari , Yanbei Chen
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