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We study multi-parameter sensing of 2D and 3D vector fields within the Bayesian framework for $SU(2)$ quantum interferometry. We establish a method to determine the optimal quantum sensor, which establishes the fundamental limit on the…

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Estimating the angular separation between two incoherent thermal sources is a challenging task for direct imaging, especially when it is smaller than or comparable to the Rayleigh length. In addition, the task of discriminating whether…

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The error in estimating the separation of a pair of incoherent sources from radiation emitted by them and subsequently captured by an imager is fundamentally bounded below by the inverse of the corresponding quantum Fisher information (QFI)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Zhixian Yu , Sudhakar Prasad

Recent advances in optical imaging and communication increasingly involve high-dimensional, partially coherent light, creating a growing need for scalable tools to measure and manipulate coherence. Here, we demonstrate the automatic…

Quantum metrology of an incoherent signal is a canonical sensing problem related to superresolution and noise spectroscopy. We show that quantum computing can accelerate searches for a weak incoherent signal when the signal and noise are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 James W. Gardner , Federico Belliardo , Gideon Lee , Tuvia Gefen , Liang Jiang

Optical superresolution microscopy is an important field, where nonlinear optical processes or prior information is used to defeat the classical diffraction limit of light. Quantum correlation microscopy uses photon arrival statistics from…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-13 Jaret J. Vasquez-Lozano , Shuo Li , Andrew D. Greentree

Multiarm interferometers can enhance measurement precision and provide multiparameter capability to the measurement. Their realisation requires multiport beam splitters, which has been a long-standing challenge in free-space and integrated…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-15 Jovana Petrovic , Aleksandra Maluckov , Nikola Stojanovic

Entangled many-body states enable high-precision quantum sensing beyond the standard quantum limit. We develop interferometric sensing protocols based on quantum critical wavefunctions and compare their performance with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Yinan Chen , Sara Murciano , Pablo Sala , Jason Alicea

We study the spatially incoherent light generated by a multimode fiber(MMF) in the application of image projection designed for the ultracold-atom experiments. Inspired by previous half-analytic methods concerning the incoherent light, here…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-04 Ken Deng , Zhongchi Zhang , Huaichuan Wang , Zihan Zhao , Jiazhong Hu

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

Every measurement of the population in an uncorrelated ensemble of two-level systems is limited by what is known as the quantum projection noise limit. Here, we present quantum projection noise limited performance of a Ramsey type…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 D. Döring , G. McDonald , J. E. Debs , C. Figl , P. A. Altin , H. -A. Bachor , N. P. Robins , J. D. Close

Our goal is to study optical signatures of quantum vacuum nonlinearities in strong macroscopic electromagnetic fields provided by high-intensity laser beams. The vacuum emission scheme is perfectly suited for this task as it naturally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-22 Alexander Blinne , Holger Gies , Felix Karbstein , Christian Kohlfürst , Matt Zepf

A method for performing nonlocal interferometry using phase-entangled macroscopic coherent states is described. The required entanglement can be generated using weak nonlinearities while Bell's inequality can be violated using single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 B. T. Kirby , J. D. Franson

Radio interferometry invariably suffers from an incomplete coverage of the spatial Fourier space, which leads to imaging artifacts. The current state-of-the-art technique is to create an image by Fourier-transforming the incomplete…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 F. Geyer , K. Schmidt , J. Kummer , M. Brüggen , H. W. Edler , D. Elsässer , F. Griese , A. Poggenpohl , L. Rustige , W. Rhode

We present a dispersive quantum thermometry protocol for simultaneous estimation of inverse temperature $\beta$ and interaction strength $x$ using a nonlinear Mach-Zehnder interferometer coupled to a thermal ancilla. We derive closed-form…

White-light interferometry is one of today's most precise tools for determining optical material properties. Achievable precision and accuracy are typically limited by systematic errors due to a high number of interdependent data fitting…

We calculate the decoherence caused by photon emission for a charged particle travelling through an interferometer; the decoherence rate gives a quantitative measure of how much "which-path" quantum information is gained by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Colby DeLisle , P. C. E. Stamp

We give a detailed discussion of optimal quantum states for optical two-mode interferometry in the presence of photon losses. We derive analytical formulae for the precision of phase estimation obtainable using quantum states of light with…

In this paper, we investigate the phase sensitivities in two-path optical interferometry with asymmetric beam splitters. Here, we present the optimal conditions for the transmission ratio and the phase of the beam splitter to gain the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Wei Zhong , Fan Wang , Lan Zhou , Peng Xu , Yu-Bo Sheng

We study the phase sensitivity in the conventional $SU(2)$ and nonconventional $SU(1,1)$ interferometers with the coherent and squeezed vacuum input state via the quantum Cramer-Rao bound. We explicitly construct the detection scheme that…

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