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The sensitivity in optical interferometry is strongly affected by losses during the signal propagation or at the detection stage. The optimal quantum states of the probing signals in the presence of loss were recently found. However, in…

With the help of quantum entanglement, quantum dense metrology (QDM) is a technique that can perform the joint estimates of two conjugate quantities such as phase and amplitude modulations of an optical field with an accuracy beating the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Wei Du , J. F. Chen , Z. Y. Ou , Weiping Zhang

We present a simple and robust design for a squeezing-enhanced Sagnac interferometer that employs the concept of SU(1,1) interference to significantly surpass the classical sensitivity limit (shot-noise limit - SNL) in rotational sensing.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Michal Natan , Saar Levin , Avi Pe'er

We apply the variational method to obtain the universal and analytical lower bounds for parameter precision in some noisy systems. We first derive a lower bound for phase precision in lossy optical interferometry at non-zero temperature.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Yang Gao , Rumin Wang

Breaking the standard quantum limit in the sensing of parameters at different spatial locations, such as in a quantum network, is of great importance. Using the framework of quantum Fisher information, many strategies based on squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Girish S. Agarwal

In this paper, we revisit the quantum Fisher information (QFI) calculation in SU(1,1) interferometer considering different phase configurations. When one of the input modes is a vacuum state, we show by using phase averaging, different…

Tracking a randomly varying optical phase is a key task in metrology, with applications in optical communication. The best precision for optical phase tracking has till now been limited by the quantum vacuum fluctuations of coherent light.…

Recent advances in quantum photonics have enabled increasingly robust protocols in optical phase estimation, achieving precisions beyond the standard quantum limit and approaching the Heisenberg limit. While intrinsic losses hinder the…

We propose a novel method for enhancing phase estimation in the displacement-assisted SU(1,1) (DSU(1,1)) interferometer by incorporating the photon recycling technique, evaluated under single-intensity detection (SID) and homodyne detection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Taj Kumar , Aviral Kumar Pandey , Anand Kumar , Devendra Kumar Mishra

Multi-photon quantum interference is the underlying principle for optical quantum information processing protocols. Indistinguishability is the key to quantum interference. Therefore, the success of many protocols in optical quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Liang Cui , Jie Su , Jiamin Li , Yuhong Liu , Xiaoying Li , Z. Y. Ou

Temporal optics has attracted much attention due to its ability for lossless stretching of ultrafast temporal pulses. At the same time, spatial SU(1,1) interferometers have been widely used because of their high sensitivity to phase…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-03 Zepeng Liu , Tianyu Liu , Hongmei Ma , Chun-Hua Yuan

We propose a theoretical scheme to enhance the phase sensitivity by introducing a Kerr nonlinear phase shift into the traditional SU(1,1) interferometer with a coherent state input and homodyne detection. We investigate the realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Shoukang Chang , Wei Ye , Huan Zhang , Liyun Hu , Jiehui Huang , Sanqiu Liu

Many works have stated that nonlinear interactions can improve phase sensitivity beyond the Heisenberg limit scaling of $1/N$ with $N$ being the mean photon number. This raises some open questions---among them the conclusive sensitivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-27 Jian-Dong Zhang , Zi-Jing Zhang , Jun-Yan Hu , Long-Zhu Cen , Yi-Fei Sun , Chen-Fei Jin , Yuan Zhao

Quantum interferometric sensing plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications, including quantum metrology, quantum imaging, and quantum lithography, where minute phase shifts carry valuable physical information. The strength of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Samata Gokhale , Netanel P. Yaish , Michal Natan , Saar Levin , Yogesh Dandekar , Avi Pe'er

We propose a multi-parameter quantum metrological protocol based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with a squeezed vacuum input state and an anti-squeezing operation at one of its output channels. A simple and intuitive geometrical picture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Dario Gatto , Paolo Facchi , Vincenzo Tamma

We theoretically present the quantum Cram\'{e}r-Rao bounds (QCRB) of an SU(1,1) interferometer for Gaussian states input with and without the internal photonic losses. The phase shifts in the single arm and in the double arms are studied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Qian-Kun Gong , Dong Li , Chun-Hua Yuan , Z. Y. Ou , Weiping Zhang

The research focused on enhancing the measurement accuracy through the use of non-Gaussian states has garnered increasing attention. In this study, we propose a scheme to input the coherent state mixed with photon-catalyzed squeezed vacuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Zekun Zhao , Qingqian Kang , Huan Zhang , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

Photon addition operations applied to squeezed states have been shown to significantly enhance phase sensitivity. In this study, we extend this approach by applying photon addition not only to coherent states but also within a Mach--Zehnder…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Qisi Zhou , Qingqian Kang , Teng Zhao , Xin Su , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

The high-precision interferometric measurement of an unknown phase is the basis for metrology in many areas of science and technology. Quantum entanglement provides an increase in sensitivity, but present techniques have only surpassed the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 G. Y. Xiang , B. L. Higgins , D. W. Berry , H. M. Wiseman , G. J. Pryde

We propose an enhanced optical interferometer based on tailored non-classical light generated by nonlinear dynamics and projective measurements in a three-level atom cavity QED system. A coherent state in the cavity becomes dynamically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 K. Gietka , T. Wasak , J. Chwedenczuk , F. Piazza , H. Ritsch
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