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The fundamental quantum interferometry bound limits the sensitivity of an interferometer for a given total rate of photons and for a given decoherence rate inside the measurement device.We theoretically show that the recently reported…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-15 Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski , Konrad Banaszek , Roman Schnabel

We develop a quantum learning scheme for binary discrimination of coherent states of light. This is a problem of technological relevance for the reading of information stored in a digital memory. In our setting, a coherent light source is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-09 Gael Sentís , Madalin Guta , Gerardo Adesso

The signal to noise ratio of quantum sensing protocols scales with the square root of the coherence time. Thus, increasing this time is a key goal in the field. Dynamical decoupling has proven to be efficient in prolonging the coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Gilad Arrad , Yuval Vinkler , Dorit Aharonov , Alex Retzker

Optomechanical sensors are capable of transducing external perturbations to resolvable optical signals. A particular regime of interest is that of high-bandwidth force detection, where an impulse is delivered to the system over a short…

We study the photon counting noise in optical interferometers used for gravitational wave detection. In order to reduce quantum noise a squeezed vacuum is injected into the usually unused input port. It is investigated under which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Volodymyr G. Voronov , Michael Weyrauch

Presence of harmful noise is inevitable in entanglement-enhanced sensing systems, requiring careful allocation of resources to optimize sensing performance in practical scenarios. We advocate a simple but effective strategy to improve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Allen Zang , Tian-Xing Zheng , Peter C. Maurer , Frederic T. Chong , Martin Suchara , Tian Zhong

A Doppler radar is a device that employs the Doppler effect to estimate the radial velocity of a moving target at a distance. Traditional radars are based on a classical description of the electromagnetic radiation, but in principle their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 Rongyu Wei , Francesco Albarelli , Jun Li , Vittorio Giovannetti

In quantum illumination, the signal mode of light, entangled with an idler mode, is dispatched towards a suspected object bathed in thermal noise and the returning mode, along with the stored idler mode, is measured to determine the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Ashwith Varadaraj Prabhu , Baladitya Suri , C. M. Chandrashekar

Quantum enhanced sensing provides a powerful tool for the precise measurement of physical parameters that is applicable in many areas of science and technology. The achievable gain in sensitivity is largely limited by the influence of noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Yu Liu , Zijun Shu , Martin B. Plenio , Jianming Cai

We analyze theoretically and experimentally cases of asymmetric detection, stimulation, and loss within a quantum nonlinear interferometer of entangled pairs. We show that the visibility of the SU(1,1) interference directly discerns between…

Critical phenomena of quantum systems offer a promising strategy to improve measurement precision. So far, many criticality-enhanced quantum metrological schemes have been proposed by using the adiabatically evolved photonic states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Ken Chen , Jia-Hao Lv , Wen Ning , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

Any amplifier requires coupling to its internal degrees of freedom for energy gain. This coupling introduces extra quantum noise to the output. On the other hand, if the internal degree of the amplifier can be accessed and manipulated, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jianmin Wang , Rong Zhu , Yue Li , Z. Y. Ou

Quantum illumination (QI) is a quantum sensing protocol mainly for target detection which uses entangled signal-idler photon pairs to enhance the detection efficiency of low-reflectivity objects immersed in thermal noisy environments.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Qizhi Cai , Jinkun Liao , Bohai Shen , Guangcan Guo , Qiang Zhou

We introduce a generalized filter-function framework that treats noise coupling strength as a tunable control parameter, enabling target noise suppression across user-defined frequency bands. By optimizing this generalized filter function,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Zhi-Da Zhang , Yao Song , Wen-Zheng Dong , Xiu-Hao Deng

The quantum fisher information and quantum correlation parameters are employed to study the application of non-classical light to the problem of parameter estimation. It is shown that the optimal measurement sensitivity of a quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 Jaspreet Sahota , Nicolás Quesada

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…

Entangled photons have the remarkable ability to be more sensitive to signal and less sensitive to noise than classical light. Joint photons can sample an object collectively, resulting in faster phase accumulation and higher spatial…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-04 Chien-Hung Lu , Matthew Reichert , Xiaohang Sun , Jason W. Fleischer

Quantum sensing is commonly described as a constrained optimization problem: maximize the information gained about an unknown quantity using a limited number of particles. Important sensors including gravitational-wave interferometers and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Morgan W. Mitchell

The detection of entanglement provides a definitive proof of quantumness. Its ascertainment might be challenging for hot or macroscopic objects, where entanglement is typically weak, but nevertheless present. Here we propose a platform for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Tanjung Krisnanda , Tomasz Paterek , Mauro Paternostro , Timothy C. H. Liew

Quantum-enhanced metrology is boosting interferometer sensitivities to extraordinary levels, up to the point where table-top experiments have been proposed to measure Planck-scale effects predicted by quantum gravity theories. In setups…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 F. Benatti , R. Floreanini , S. Olivares , E. Sindici