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This article presents a comprehensive study and design methodology of co-integrated oscillators for nano mass sensing application based on resonant Nano-Electro-Mechanical-System (NEMS). In particular, it reports the capacitive with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Eric Colinet , Laurent Duraffourg , Sebastien Labarthe , Philippe Andreucci , Sebastien Hentz , Philippe Robert

Sensing via a mechanical frequency shift is a powerful measurement tool, and, therefore, understanding and mitigating frequency noise affecting mechanical resonators is imperative. Thermomechanical noise fundamentally limits mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Sofia C. Brown , Ravid Shaniv , Ruomu Zhang , Chris Reetz , Cindy A. Regal

By utilizing quantum mechanical effects, such as superposition and entanglement, quantum metrology promises higher precision than the classical strategies. It is, however, practically challenging to realize the quantum advantages. This is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Ran Liu , Ze Wu , Xiaodong Yang , Yuchen Li , Hui Zhou , Zhaokai Li , Yuquan Chen , Haidong Yuan , Xinhua Peng

Resolving frequencies in a time-dependent field is classically limited by the measurement bandwidth. Using tools from quantum metrology and quantum control may overcome this limit, yet the full advantage afforded by entanglement so far…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Anirban Dey , Sara Mouradian , Cosmo Lupo , Zixin Huang

We present a sensing scheme for estimating the frequency difference of two non-entangled photons. The technique consists of time-resolving sampling measurements at the output of a beam splitter. With this protocol, the frequency shift…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Luca Maggio , Danilo Triggiani , Paolo Facchi , Vincenzo Tamma

Ultrasensitive detection of the frequency, phase, and amplitude of radio frequency (RF) electric fields is central to a variety of important applications, including radio communication, cosmology, dark matter searches, and high-fidelity…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Hao Wu , Grant Mitts , Clayton Ho , Joshua Rabinowitz , Eric R. Hudson

Quantum sensing is an important application of emerging quantum technologies. We explore whether a hybrid system of quantum sensors and quantum circuits can surpass the classical limit of sensing. In particular, we use optimization…

For space-borne gravitational wave detectors,such as LISA and TianQin ,the disturbance caused by the coupling of test masses and the external magnetic fields is one of the main sources of the residual acceleration noise. Although the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-05 Yuanyang Yu , Butian Zhang , Shengxin Lin , Jianping Liang , Donghua Pan , Shun Wang , Ze-Bing Zhou

High sensitivity detection plays a vital role in science discoveries and technological applications. While intriguing methods utilizing collective many-body correlations and quantum entanglements have been developed in physics to enhance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Tangyou Huang , Zhongcheng Yu , Zhongyi Ni , Xiaoji Zhou , Xiaopeng Li

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

The field of quantum sensing explores the use of quantum phenomena to measure a broad range of physical quantities, of both static and time-dependent types. An important figure of merit for sensing time dependent signals is the spectral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Tuvia Gefen , Amit Rotem , Alex Retzker

This study presents a novel method using spin quantum sensors to explore temporal variations of fundamental constants, significantly expanding the frequency range and providing constraints on scalar dark matter.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Xi Kong , Yuke Zhang , Chenyu Ji , Shuangju Chang , Yifan Chen , Xiang Bian , Chang-Kui Duan , Pu Huang , Jiangfeng Du

Quantum enhanced sensing is a powerful technique in which nonclassical states are used to improve the sensitivity of a measurement. For enhanced mechanical displacement sensing, squeezed states of light have been shown to reduce the photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-05 Jeremy B. Clark , Florent Lecocq , Raymond W. Simmonds , José Aumentado , John D. Teufel

Quantum metrology fundamentally relies upon the efficient management of quantum uncertainties. We show that, under equilibrium conditions, the management of quantum noise becomes extremely flexible around the quantum critical point of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Irénée Frérot , Tommaso Roscilde

A frequency shifter of the photon is a key component for frequency-multiplexed high-capacity quantum communications and frequency-encoded quantum computation. Existed methods for shifting the frequency of a photon based on electro-optical,…

Optomechanical interactions between mechanical oscillators and an electromagnetic field induce controllable modifications in mechanical fluctuation. When multiple mechanical oscillators are coupled to a single electromagnetic mode, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Mungyeong Jeong , Hyojun Seok , Young-Sik Ra , Junho Suh

We describe the application of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) to ultrasensitive mass detection. In these experiments, a modulated flux of atoms was adsorbed upon the surface of a 32.8 MHz NEMS resonator within an ultrahigh vacuum…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 K. L. Ekinci , X. M. H. Huang , M. L. Roukes

Nano-mechanical resonators have a large potential as sensors of very small adsorbed masses, down to the atomic level and beyond. Here I establish the fundamental lower bound on the mass that can be measured with a nano-mechanical oscillator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-23 Daniel Braun

Stochastic switching between the two bistable states of a strongly driven mechanical resonator enables detection of weak signals based on probability distributions, in a manner that mimics biological systems. However, conventional silicon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Robin J. Dolleman , Pierpaolo Belardinelli , Samer Houri , Herre S. J. van der Zant , Farbod Alijani , Peter G. Steeneken

Detection of the weakest forces in nature and the search for new physics are aided by increasingly sensitive measurements of the motion of mechanical oscillators. However, the attainable knowledge of an oscillator's motion is limited by…