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In this work a quantum imaging setup based on undetected squeezed photons is employed for metrological applications such as sensitive phase measurement and quantum imaging. In spite of the traditional quantum imaging with undetected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 S. Samimi , Z. Ghasemi , H. Mohammadi

We show that continuous quantum nondemolition (QND) measurement of an atomic ensemble is able to improve the precision of frequency estimation even in the presence of independent dephasing acting on each atom. We numerically simulate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-13 Matteo A. C. Rossi , Francesco Albarelli , Dario Tamascelli , Marco G. Genoni

According to quantum mechanics, if we keep observing a continuous variable we generally disturb its evolution. For a class of observables, however, it is possible to implement a so-called quantum nondemolition measurement: by confining the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 A. Pontin , M. Bonaldi , A. Borrielli , L. Marconi , F. Marino , G. Pandraud , G. A. Prodi , P. M. Sarro , E. Serra , F. Marin

We report on a novel experiment to generate non-classical atomic states via quantum non-demolition (QND) measurements on cold atomic samples prepared in a high finesse ring cavity. The heterodyne technique developed for the QND detection…

We consider light scattering from ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice into a cavity. The measurement of photons leaking out the cavity provides a quantum nondemolition (QND) access to various atomic variables. Depending on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-29 Igor B. Mekhov , Helmut Ritsch

Although universal continuous-variable quantum computation cannot be achieved via linear optics (including squeezing), homodyne detection and feed-forward, inclusion of ideal photon counting measurements overcomes this obstacle. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. Bartlett , Barry C. Sanders

We propose a scheme to perform single-shot quantum non-demolition (QND) readout of the spin of an electron trapped in a semiconductor quantum dot (QD). Our proposal relies on the interaction of the QD electron spin with optically excited,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Shruti Puri , Peter McMahon , Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Optical quantum information processing critically relies on Bell-state measurement, a ubiquitous operation for quantum communication and computing. Its practical realization involves the interference of optical modes and the detection of a…

One approach to quantum information processing is to use photons as quantum bits and rely on linear optical elements for most operations. However, some optical nonlinearity is necessary to enable universal quantum computing. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Prabin Adhikari , Mohammad Hafezi , J. M. Taylor

In this paper, we propose a resources-optimal linear-optical scheme for quantum nondemolition detection of single-photon presence. By measuring the state of ancillary photons, the presence of a photon in signal mode is revealed with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 Marek Bula , Karol Bartkiewicz , Antonín Černoch , Karel Lemr

Generalized quantum measurements are an important extension of projective or von Neumann measurements, in that they can be used to describe any measurement that can be implemented on a quantum system. We describe how to realize two…

We demonstrate an optical quantum nondemolition (QND) interaction gate with a bandwidth of about 100 MHz. Employing this gate, we are able to perform QND measurements in real time on randomly fluctuating signals. Our QND gate relies upon…

Quantum metrology promises measurement precision beyond the classical limit by using suitably tailored quantum states and detection strategies. However, scaling up this advantage is experimentally challenging, due to the difficulty of…

In quantum metrology schemes, one generally needs to prepare $m$ copies of $N$ entangled particles, such as entangled photon states, and then they are detected in a destructive process to estimate an unknown parameter. Here, we present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yu-Ran Zhang , Jie-Dong Yue , Heng Fan

Nanophotonic quantum devices can significantly boost light-matter interaction which is important for applications such as quantum networks. Reaching a high interaction strength between an optical transition of a spin system and a single…

We analyze the detection of itinerant photons using a quantum non-demolition (QND) measurement. We show that the backaction due to the continuous measurement imposes a limit on the detector efficiency in such a scheme. We illustrate this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Ferdinand Helmer , Matteo Mariantoni , Enrique Solano , Florian Marquardt

We investigate the feasibility of performing quantum non-demolition (QND) measurements in relativistic quantum systems, using the one-dimensional Dirac oscillator as a specific example. We derive general expressions for its QND observables…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-12 Wei Sun , Keye Zhang , Pierre Meystre , Weiping Zhang

We present an unconventional mechanism for quantum nonlinearity in a system comprising of a V-type quantum emitter (QE) and two Fabry-Perot cavities. The two transitions of the V-type QE are effectively coupled with two independent cavity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Jiang-Shan Tang , Mingyuan Chen , Miao Cai , Lei Tang , Yanqing Lu , Keyu Xia , Franco Nori

We discuss a Quantum Non-Demolition Measurement (QNDM) protocol to estimate the derivatives of a cost function with a quantum computer. %This is a key step for the implementation of variational quantum circuits. The cost function, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Paolo Solinas , Simone Caletti , Giovanni Minuto

Molecular cavity optomechanical systems, featuring ultrahigh vibrational frequencies and strong light-matter interactions, hold significant promise for advancing applications in quantum science and technology. Specifically, by introducing…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-25 Jian Tang , Baijun Li , Bin Yin , Tian-Xiang Lu , Ran Huang , Franco Nori , Hui Jing