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We investigate the sensitivity of gravitational acceleration estimation using squeezed probe states in a quantum metrology framework. In particular, we analyze how the squeezing phase, beyond its amplitude, affects the attainable precision.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Oziel R. de Araujo , Lucas S. Marinho , Jonas F. G. Santos , Carlos H. S. Vieira

We present in this letter a scheme for optical interferometry. We utilize coherent-beam-stimulated two-mode squeezed light, which interacts with a phase shifter and is then squeezed again before detection. Our theoretical device has the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 William N. Plick , Jonathan P. Dowling , G. S. Agarwal

Quantum noise in a model of singly resonant frequency doubling including phase mismatch and driving in the harmonic mode is analyzed. The general formulae about the fixed points and their stability as well as the squeezing spectra…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Cabrillo , J. L. Roldan , P. Garcia-Fernandez

The accuracy in determining the quantum state of a system depends on the type of measurement performed. Homodyne and heterodyne detection are the two main schemes in continuous-variable quantum information. The former leads to a direct…

We show how to use two-mode squeezed light to exponentially enhance cavity-based dispersive qubit measurement. Our scheme enables true Heisenberg-limited scaling of the measurement, and crucially, is not restricted to small dispersive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-31 Nicolas Didier , Archana Kamal , William D. Oliver , Alexandre Blais , Aashish A. Clerk

The most efficient approach to laser interferometric force sensing to date uses monochromatic carrier light with its signal sideband spectrum in a squeezed vacuum state. Quantum decoherence, i.e. mixing with an ordinary vacuum state due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Mikhail Korobko , Jan Südbeck , Sebastian Steinlechner , Roman Schnabel

We present an algorithmic approach to calculate the quantum-noise spectral density of photocurrents generated by optical fields with arbitrary discrete classical spectrum in coherent or squeezed states. The measurement scheme may include an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Harms , P. Cochrane , A. Freise

Atom interferometers are reaching sensitivities fundamentally constrained by quantum fluctuations. A main challenge is to integrate entanglement into quantum sensing protocols to enhance precision while ensuring robustness against noise and…

Squeezed states of light constitute an important nonclassical resource in the field of high-precision measurements, e.g. gravitational wave detection, as well as in the field of quantum information, e.g. for teleportation, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Moritz Mehmet , Henning Vahlbruch , Nico Lastzka , Karsten Danzmann , Roman Schnabel

We study quantum enhancement of sensitivity using squeezed light in a multi-parameter quantum sensor, the hybrid dc-rf optically pumped magnetometer (hOPM) [Phys. Rev. Applied 21, 034054, (2024)]. Using a single spin ensemble, the hOPM…

Squeezed light offers genuine quantum advantage in enhanced sensing and quantum computation; yet the level of squeezing or quantum noise reduction generated from nanophotonic chips has been limited. In addition to strong quantum noise…

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

The balanced homodyne detection as a readout scheme of gravitational-wave detectors is carefully examined from the quantum field theoretical point of view. The readout scheme in gravitational-wave detectors specifies the directly measured…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 Kouji Nakamura

In order to expand the astrophysical reach of gravitational wave detectors, several interferometer topologies have been proposed to evade the thermodynamic and quantum mechanical limits in future detectors. In this work, we make a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Haixing Miao , Huan Yang , Rana X Adhikari , Yanbei Chen

Squeezed light is injected into the dark port of gravitational wave interferometers, in order to reduce the quantum noise. A fraction of the interferometer output light can reach the OPO due to sub-optimal isolation of the squeezing…

The DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (DECIGO) is a planned space-based, next-generation gravitational wave detector aimed at observing primordial gravitational waves originating form cosmic inflation. This work…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Kenji Tsuji , Tomohiro Ishikawa , Kentaro Komori , Yutaro Enomoto , Yuta Michimura , Kurumi Umemura , Shoki Iwaguchi , Keiko Kokeyama , Seiji Kawamura

It is believed that the quantum behaviors of homodyne detectors and traditional heterodyne detectors can be fully understood in the context of the quantum theory of optical detection. According to the theory, a 3 dB extra quantum noise has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Heng Fan , Dechao He , Sheng Feng

Squeezed light is a crucial resource for continuous-variable (CV) quantum information science. Distributed multi-mode squeezing is critical for enabling CV quantum networks and distributed quantum sensing. To date, multi-mode squeezing…

Squeezed vacuum states are now employed in gravitational-wave interferometric detectors, enhancing their sensitivity and thus enabling richer astrophysical observations. In future observing runs, the detectors will incorporate a filter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-13 Dhruva Ganapathy , Victoria Xu , Wenxuan Jia , Chris Whittle , Maggie Tse , Lisa Barsotti , Matthew Evans , Lee McCuller

We consider the problem of improving noisy quantum measurements by suitable preprocessing strategies making many noisy detectors equivalent to a single ideal detector. For observables pertaining to finite-dimensional systems (e.g. qubits or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Dall'Arno , G. M. D'Ariano , M. F. Sacchi