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The hybrid interferometer integrating an optical parametric amplifier and a beam splitter has the potential to outperform the SU(1,1) interferometer. However, photon loss remains a critical limitation for practical implementation. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Qisi Zhou , Tao Jiang , Qingqian Kang , Teng Zhao , Xin Su , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

The efficient sensing of weak environmental perturbations via special degeneracies called exceptional points in non-Hermitian systems has gained enormous traction in the last few decades. However, in contrast to the extensive literature on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 J. Wang , D. Mukhopadhyay , G. S. Agarwal

We quantitatively investigate phase measurement in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), which is injected with a weak coherent and a squeezed vacuum generated from a spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The measured three-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Lifeng Duan

The phase uncertainty of an unseeded nonlinear interferometer, where the output of one nonlinear crystal is transmitted to the input of a second crystal that analyzes it, is commonly said to be below the shot-noise level but highly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-01 E. Giese , S. Lemieux , M. Manceau , R. Fickler , R. W. Boyd

In recent times, distributed sensing has been extensively studied using squeezed states. While this is an excellent development, it is desirable to investigate the use of other quantum probes, such as entangled states of light. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Jiaxuan Wang , Girish Agarwal

In order to efficiently image a non-absorbing sample (a phase object), dedicated phase contrast optics are required. Typically, these optics are designed with the assumption that the sample is weakly scattering, implying a linear relation…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-22 Stewart Koppell , Mark Kasevich

We investigated quantum critical behaviours in the non-equilibrium steady state of a $XXZ$ spin chain with boundary Markovian noise using the Fisher information. The latter represents the distance between two infinitesimally close states,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-19 Ugo Marzolino , Tomaž Prosen

Quantum-enhanced phase estimation paves the way to ultra-precision sensing and is of great realistic significance. In this paper we investigate theoretically the estimation of a second-order nonlinear phase shift using a coherent state and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Jian-Dong Zhang , Zi-Jing Zhang , Long-Zhu Cen , Jun-Yan Hu , Yuan Zhao

Distributed quantum sensing exploits entanglement to enhance the estimation of multiple parameters across a network of spatially-separated sensors, achieving sensitivities beyond the classical limit. Potential applications cover a plethora…

We study a sensor network of distributed Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) for the parallel (simultaneous) estimation of an arbitrary number $d \geq 1$ of phase shifts. The scheme uses a squeezed-vacuum state that is split between $d$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Marco Malitesta , Augusto Smerzi , Luca Pezzè

A coherent seeded SU(1,1) interferometer provides a prominent technique in the field of precision measurement. We theoretically study the phase sensitivity of SU(1,1) interferometer with Kerr state seeding under single intensity and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Priyanka Sharma , Aviral K. Pandey , Gaurav Shukla , Devendra Kumar Mishra

The Mach--Zehnder interferometer is a powerful device for detecting small phase shifts between two light beams. Simple input states -- such as coherent states or single photons -- can reach the standard quantum limit of phase estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Ondřej Černotík , Iivari Pietikäinen , Shruti Puri , S. M. Girvin , Radim Filip

A quantum theory of multiphase estimation is crucial for quantum-enhanced sensing and imaging and may link quantum metrology to more complex quantum computation and communication protocols. In this letter we tackle one of the key…

We consider an interferometer powered by laser light (a coherent state) into one input port and ask the following question: what is the best state to inject into the second input port, given a constraint on the mean number of photons this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Matthias D. Lang , Carlton M. Caves

The accuracy of quantum measurements can be effectively improved by using both photon-added non-Gaussian operations and Kerr nonlinear phase shifters. Here, we employ coherent state mixed photon-added squeezed vacuum state as input into a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Zekun Zhao , Qingqian Kang , Shoukang Chang , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Xin Su , Liyun Hu

In this paper, we revisit the quantum Fisher information (QFI) calculation in SU(1,1) interferometer considering different phase configurations. When one of the input modes is a vacuum state, we show by using phase averaging, different…

Phase measurement using a lossless Mach-Zehnder interferometer with certain entangled $N$-photon states can lead to a phase sensitivity of the order of 1/N, the Heisenberg limit. However, previously considered output measurement schemes are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yang Gao , Hwang Lee

In quantum multi-parameter estimation, the precision of estimating unknown parameters is bounded by the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB), defined via the inverse of the Fisher information matrix (FIM). However, in certain scenarios such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Min Namkung , Changhyoup Lee , Hyang-Tag Lim

Many researches proposed the use of the noon state as the input state for phase estimation, which is one topic of quantum metrology. This is because the input noon state provides the maximum Fisher information at the specific point.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-24 Masahito Hayashi

Critical properties of a quantum system are recognized as valuable resources for quantum metrology. In this work, we investigate the criticality-enhanced sensing in a quantum Rabi triangle system, which exhibits multiple phases. Around the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Yuyang Tang , Yu Yang , Min An , Fuli Li
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