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By harnessing the quantum states of light for illumination, precise phase and absorption estimations can be achieved with precision beyond the standard quantum limit. Despite their significance for precision measurements, quantum states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Ming Li , Chang-Ling Zou , Di Liu , Guo-Ping Guo , Guang-Can Guo , Xi-Feng Ren

We demonstrate quantum interference of three photons that are distinguishable in time, by resolving them in the conjugate parameter, frequency. We show that the multiphoton interference pattern in our setup can be manipulated by tuning the…

Quantum Sensing is a rapidly growing branch of research within the area of quantum science and technology offering key resources, beyond classical ones, with potential for commercialisation of novel (quantum) sensors. The exploitation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Andrea Chiuri , Federico Angelini , Ilaria Gianani , Simone Santoro , Marco Barbieri

The sensitivity of classical and quantum sensing is impaired in a noisy environment. Thus, one of the main challenges facing sensing protocols is to reduce the noise while preserving the signal. State of the art quantum sensing protocols…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-18 L. Cohen , Y. Pilnyak , D. Istrati , A. Retzker , H. S. Eisenberg

The transverse spatial effects observed in photon pairs produced by parametric down-conversion provide a robust and fertile testing ground for studies of quantum mechanics, non-classical states of light, correlated imaging and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. P. Walborn , C. H. Monken , S. Pádua , P. H. Souto Ribeiro

Quantum systems can be used to measure various quantities in their environment with high precision. Often, however, their sensitivity is limited by the decohering effects of this same environment. Dynamical decoupling schemes are widely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 David Layden , Paola Cappellaro

Traditional method for measuring continuous-variable quantum entanglement relies on balanced homodyne detections, which are sensitive to vacuum quantum noise coupled in through losses resulted from many factors such as detector's quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Jiamin Li , Yuhong Liu , Nan Huo , Liang Cui , Sheng Feng , Xiaoying Li , Z. Y. Ou

Non-local effects have the potential to radically move forward quantum enhanced LiDAR to provide an advantage over classical LiDAR not only in laboratory environments but practical implementation. In this work, we demonstrate a 43dB lower…

We suggest and demonstrate experimentally a strategy to obtain relevant information about a composite system by only performing measurements on a small and easily accessible part of it, which we call quantum probe. We show in particular how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-15 Andrea Smirne , Simone Cialdi , Giorgio Anelli , Matteo G. A. Paris , Bassano Vacchini

The squeezed photons, as a quantum-correlated light with reduced noise, have emerged as a great resource for sensing the structures of matter. Here we study the transient absorption (TA) scheme using the squeezed photons whose spectral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Jiahao Joel Fan , Feihong Liu , Dangyuan Lei , Zhedong Zhang

Extracting as much information as possible about an object when probing with a limited number of photons is an important goal with applications from biology and security to metrology. Imaging with a few photons is a challenging task as the…

In a noisy environment with weak single levels, quantum illumination can outperform classical illumination in determining the presence and range of a target object even in the limit of sub-optimal measurements based on non-simultaneous,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Richard J. Murchie , Jonathan D. Pritchard , John Jeffers

We consider the certification of temporal quantum correlations using the pseudo-density matrix (PDM), an extension of the density matrix to the time domain, where negative eigenvalues are key indicators of temporal correlations.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Hongfeng Liu , Zhenhuan Liu , Shu Chen , Xinfang Nie , Xiangjing Liu , Dawei Lu

Neutron correlation spectroscopy can exceed direct spectroscopy in the incoming beam intensity by up to two orders of magnitude at the same energy resolution. However, the propagation of the counting noise in the correlation algorithm of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-13 F. Mezei , M. T. Caccamo , F. Migliardo , S. Magazù

Many quantum sensing suggestions rely on temporal correlations found in photon pairs generated by parametric down-conversion. In this work, we show that the temporal correlations in light with a thermal photon statistics can be equally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Peng Kian Tan , Xi Jie Yeo , Alvin Zhen Wei Leow , Lijiong Shen , Christian Kurtsiefer

We summarise the main results that follow from our theory of frequency- and time-resolved photon correlations, which provides exact computations in nontrivial systems. We illustrate the theory with original results as interesting cases can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 Juan Camilo López Carreño , Elena del Valle , Fabrice P. Laussy

A nonlocal quantum approach is presented to polarimetry, leveraging the phenomenon of entanglement in photon pairs to enhance the precision in sample property determination. By employing two distinct channels, one containing the sample of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Ali Pedram , Vira R. Besaga , Frank Setzpfandt , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We show that measuring dark matter signal by projecting quantum sensors in the collective excited state can highly suppress the non-collective noise background, hence improving the sensitivity significantly. We trace the evolution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Shion Chen , Hajime Fukuda , Yutaro Iiyama , Yuya Mino , Takeo Moroi , Mikio Nakahara , Tatsumi Nitta , Thanaporn Sichanugrist

Cross-correlation heterodyne detectors exhibit the potential for suppression of the detection quantum noise below shot noise without use of optical squeezing for capturing weak optical signals in low frequency bands. To understand the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Sheng Feng , Kaikai Wu

Spontaneous downconversion is a versatile source for correlated biphotons that has been employed in many quantum sensing and imaging experiments. Spatially-resolved photon-counting detectors allow to access a large number of modes, posing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-26 Ermes Toninelli , Paul-Antoine Moreau , Thomas Gregory , Miles J. Padgett