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An entangled quantum state is considered by applying a local photon excitation to each mode of an entangled coherent state. The entanglement property is investigated in terms of the entropy of entanglement. It is shown that applying a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-13 Arpita Chatterjee

Quantum techniques can be used to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio in optical imaging. Leveraging the latest advances in single photon avalanche diode array cameras and multi-photon detection techniques, here we introduce a super-sensitive…

High-dimensional entanglement in the form of transverse spatial correlation between a pair of photons generated via spontaneous parametric downconversion is not only a valuable resource in many academic and real-life applications but also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Rounak Chatterjee , Vikas S Bhat , Kiran Bajar , Sushil Mujumdar

Quantum metrology promises high-precision measurements beyond the capability of any classical techniques, and has the potential to be integral to investigative techniques. However, all sensors must tolerate imperfections if they are to be…

In optical interferometry multi-mode entanglement is often assumed to be the driving force behind quantum enhanced measurements. Recent work has shown this assumption to be false: single mode quantum states perform just as well as their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 P. A. Knott , T. J. Proctor , Kae Nemoto , J. A. Dunningham , W. J. Munro

Advancements in physics are often motivated/accompanied by advancements in our precision measurements abilities. The current generation of atomic and optical interferometers is limited by shot noise, a fundamental limit when estimating a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Luca Pezze' , Augusto Smerzi

Entanglement is a key resource in quantum technologies, enhancing precision and resolution in imaging and sensing by leveraging the cross-correlation of photon pairs. This correlation enables precise time synchronization of photons reaching…

Multi-photon interference reveals strictly non-classical phenomena. Its applications range from fundamental tests of quantum mechanics to photonic quantum information processing, where a significant fraction of key experiments achieved so…

We present a novel optical device based on an integrated system of micro-lenses and single mode optical fibers. It allows to collect and direct into many modes two photons generated by spontaneous parametric down conversion. By this device…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-27 A. Rossi , G. Vallone , A. Chiuri , F. De Martini , P. Mataloni

We experimentally show that two-photon path-entangled states can be coherently manipulated by multi-mode interference in multi-mode waveguides. By measuring the output two-photon spatial correlation function versus the phase of the input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-22 Eilon Poem , Yehonatan Gilead , Yaron Silberberg

Fusing photon pairs creates an arena where indistinguishability can exist between two two-photon amplitudes contributing to the same joint photodetection event. This two-photon interference has been extensively utilized in creating…

Quantum multiparameter metrology is hindered by incompatibility issues, such as finding a single probe state (probe incompatibility) and a single measurement (measurement incompatibility) optimal for all parameters. The simultaneous…

We propose a detection scheme for measuring the overlap of the quantum state of a weakly excited traveling-field mode with a desired reference quantum state, by successive mixing the signal mode with modes prepared in coherent states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 J. Clausen , M. Dakna , L. Knoll , D. -G. Welsch

Most experimental demonstrations of entanglement require nonclassical states and correlated measurements of single-photon detection events. It is shown here that entanglement can produce a large decrease in the rate of two-photon absorption…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. D. Franson

In this paper, we use the non-linear dynamics of the individual quantum trajectories of an optical cavity inside an instantaneous quantum feedback loop to measure the phase shift between two pathways of light with an accuracy above the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Lewis A. Clark , Adam Stokes , Almut Beige

At the heart of recent breakthroughs in quantum imaging and spectroscopy utilizing undetected photons lies the quantum optical effect known as induced coherence without induced emission. This fundamental quantum interference effect has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Dong-Gil Im , Seung-Yeun Yoo , Chung-Hyun Lee , Jongheon Suh , Yoon-Ho Kim

We present an entanglement-based quantitative phase gradient microscopy technique that employs principles from quantum ghost imaging and ghost diffraction. In this method, a transparent sample is illuminated by both photons of an entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Yingwen Zhang , Paul-Antoine Moreau , Duncan England , Ebrahim Karimi , Benjamin Sussman

Generating quantum entanglement is not only an important scientific endeavor, but will be essential to realizing quantum-enhanced technologies, in particular, quantum-enhanced measurements with precision beyond classical limits. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-24 Jonathan C. F. Matthews , Alberto Politi , Damien Bonneau , Jeremy L. O'Brien

Quantum sensing with undetected photons is a technique where photons of one wavelength probe a sample, but information is extracted by measuring photons of another wavelength that never interacts with the sample. This has seen significant…

We propose a scheme to implement a single-mode quantum filter, which selectively eliminates the one-photon state in a quantum state $\alpha|0>+\beta|1>+\gamma|2>$. The vacuum state and the two photon state are transmitted without any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 XuBo Zou , K. Pahlke , W. Mathis