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The performance of a quantum sensor is fundamentally limited by noise. This noise is particularly damaging when it becomes correlated with the readout of a target signal, caused by fluctuations of the sensor's operating parameters. These…

Quantum sensing takes advantage of well controlled quantum systems for performing measurements with high sensitivity and precision. We have implemented a concept for quantum sensing with arbitrary frequency resolution, independent of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 J. M. Boss , K. S. Cujia , J. Zopes , C. L. Degen

The impact of measurement imperfections on quantum metrology protocols has not been approached in a systematic manner so far. In this work, we tackle this issue by generalising firstly the notion of quantum Fisher information to account for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Yink Loong Len , Tuvia Gefen , Alex Retzker , Jan Kołodyński

Every quantum operation that takes a system from one state to another is known to have bounds on operation time, due to Heisenberg uncertainty principle. In open quantum systems (OQS), such bounds have been principally affected by system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Sarfraj Fency , Riddhi Chatterjee , Rangeet Bhattacharyya

The emergence of quantum sensor networks has presented opportunities for enhancing complex sensing tasks, while simultaneously introducing significant challenges in designing and analyzing quantum sensing protocols due to the intricate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Pengcheng Liao , Bingzhi Zhang , Quntao Zhuang

Detection of signals buried in noise is the major challenge for sensing. Classically, the optimal detector is a matched filter, whose sensitivity meets the classical limit of correlation between the filter target and the measured signal…

Entangled many-body states enable high-precision quantum sensing beyond the standard quantum limit. We develop interferometric sensing protocols based on quantum critical wavefunctions and compare their performance with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Yinan Chen , Sara Murciano , Pablo Sala , Jason Alicea

Quantum mechanics imposes a lower bound on the time required for a quantum system to reach certain given targets. In this paper, from a geometric perspective, we introduce a new quantum speed limit (QSL) based on the Bloch angle and derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Qianyi Wang , Ben Wang , Jun Wang , Lijian Zhang

Quantum sensing is a rapidly growing approach to probe fundamental physics and explore new phase space for possible new physics with precision and highly sensitive measurements in our quest to understand the deep structure of matter and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 Steven D. Bass , Michael Doser

We introduce a quantum convolution and a conceptual framework to study states in discrete-variable (DV) quantum systems. All our results suggest that stabilizer states play a role in DV quantum systems similar to the role Gaussian states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Kaifeng Bu , Weichen Gu , Arthur Jaffe

We establish the ultimate limits that quantum theory imposes on the accuracy attainable in optical ellipsometry. We show that the standard quantum limit, as usual reached when the incident light is in a coherent state, can be surpassed with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 L. Rudnicki , L. L. Sanchez-Soto , G. Leuchs , R. W. Boyd

This work demonstrates that quantum diffractive collisions, those that result in very small momentum and energy transfer, are universal. Specifically, the cumulative energy distribution transferred to an initially stationary sensor particle…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 James L. Booth , Pinrui Shen , Roman V. Krems , Kirk W. Madison

Quantum sensing using non-linear interferometers offers the possibility of bicolour imaging, using light that never interacted with the object of interest, and provides a way to achieve phase supersensitivity, i.e. a Heisenberg-type scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Simon Schaffrath , Daniel Derr , Markus Gräfe , Enno Giese

Thanks to common-mode noise rejection, differential configurations are crucial for realistic applications of phase and frequency estimation with atom interferometers. Currently, differential protocols with uncorrelated particles and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Robin Corgier , Marco Malitesta , Augusto Smerzi , Luca Pezzè

Quantum resources enable secure quantum sensing (SQS) of remote systems, offering significant advantages in precision and security. However, decoherence in the quantum communication channel and during the evolution of quantum states can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Muhammad Talha Rahim , Saif Al-Kuwari , Mahmood Irtiza Hussain , Asad Ali

A general quantum limit to the sensitivity of particle position measurements is derived following the simple principle of the Heisenberg microscope. The value of this limit is calculated for particles in the Rayleigh and Mie scattering…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-04 Michael A. Taylor , Joachim Knittel , Warwick P. Bowen

Noise is the greatest obstacle in quantum metrology that limits it achievable precision and sensitivity. There are many techniques to mitigate the effect of noise, but this can never be done completely. One commonly proposed technique is to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 Nathan Shettell , William J. Munro , Damian Markham , Kae Nemoto

State-of-the-art atomic clocks are based on the precise detection of the energy difference between two atomic levels, measured as a quantum phase accumulated in a given time interval. Optical-lattice clocks (OLCs) now operate at or near the…

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

Long-baseline laser-interferometer gravitational-wave detectors are operating at a factor of 10 (in amplitude) above the standard quantum limit (SQL) within a broad frequency band. Such a low classical noise budget has already allowed the…