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Achieving the ultimate quantum precision in the estimation of multiple physical parameters simultaneously is a challenge in quantum metrology due to fundamental limitations and experimental challenges in harnessing the necessary quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Atmadev Rai , Danilo Triggiani , Paolo Facchi , Vincenzo Tamma

In this article, we demonstrate a scheme capable of two-phase measurement, i.e. the simultaneous measurement of the two phase-shifts occurring in two independent Mach-Zehnder interferometers using one intensity detector. Our scheme utilizes…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Utsab Khadka , Jiteng Sheng , Xihua Yang , Min Xiao

We study a Mach-Zehnder interferometer fed by a coherent state in one input port and vacuum in the other. We explore a Bayesian phase estimation strategy to demonstrate that it is possible to achieve the standard quantum limit independently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Pezze , A. Smerzi , G. Khoury , J. F. Hodelin , D. Bouwmeester

The Mach-Zehnder interferometer is a fundamental tool for measuring phase shifts between two light paths, serving as a crucial prototype for achieving high-precision measurements in various scientific and technological applications. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Bing-Shu Hu , Xiao-Ming Lu

Quantum metrology is the state-of-the-art measurement technology. It uses quantum resources to enhance the sensitivity of phase estimation beyond what reachable within classical physics. While single parameter estimation theory has been…

We investigate the phase sensitivity of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer using a special class of generalized coherent states constructed from generalized Heisenberg and deformed $su(1,1)$ algebras. These states, derived from a perturbed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 N. E. Abouelkhir , A. Slaoui , R. Ahl Laamara

We study a sensor network of distributed Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) for the parallel (simultaneous) estimation of an arbitrary number $d \geq 1$ of phase shifts. The scheme uses a squeezed-vacuum state that is split between $d$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Marco Malitesta , Augusto Smerzi , Luca Pezzè

Multiparameter estimation is a general problem that aims at measuring unknown physical quantities, obtaining high precision in the process. In this context, the adoption of quantum resources promises a substantial boost in the achievable…

We quantitatively investigate phase measurement in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), which is injected with a weak coherent and a squeezed vacuum generated from a spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The measured three-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Lifeng Duan

The canonical Mach-Zehnder interferometer fed with a coherent state and a squeezed-vacuum state of equal intensities is theoretically predicted to achieve Heisenberg scaling in phase sensitivity. However, this ultimate performance is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Yi Gu , Song-Ping Wang , Wei Zhong

We find a phase matching condition for enhancement of sensitivity in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer illuminated by an arbitrary state in one input port and an odd(even) state in the other port. Under this condition, the Fisher information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-17 Jing Liu , Xiaoxing Jing , Xiaoguang Wang

Multiparameter estimation, which aims to simultaneously determine multiple parameters in the same measurement procedure, attracts extensive interests in measurement science and technologies. Here, we propose a multimode many-body quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Min Zhuang , Jiahao Huang , Chaohong Lee

Photon counting measurements are analyzed for obtaining a classical phase parameter in linear Mach Zehnder interferometer (MZI), by the use of phase estimation theories. The detailed analysis is made for four cases: a) Coherent states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Y. Ben-Aryeh

For a fixed average energy, the simultaneous estimation of multiple phases can provide a better total precision than estimating them individually. We show this for a multimode interferometer with a phase in each mode, using Gaussian inputs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 Christos N. Gagatsos , Dominic Branford , Animesh Datta

The best performance of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer is achieved with the input state |N_T/2 + 1>|N_T/2-1 > + |N_T/2 - 1>|N_T/2+1>, being N_T the total number of atoms/photons. This gives: i) a phase-shift error confidence C_{68%}=2.67/N_T…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Luca Pezze' , Augusto Smerzi

We study the simultaneous estimation of multiple phases as a discretised model for the imaging of a phase object. We identify quantum probe states that provide an enhancement compared to the best quantum scheme for the estimation of each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Peter C. Humphreys , Marco Barbieri , Animesh Datta , Ian A. Walmsley

Estimating multiple parameters simultaneously is of great importance to measurement science and application. For a single parameter, atomic Ramsey interferometry (or equivalently optical Mach-Zehnder interferometry) is capable of providing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-09 Xinwei Li , Jia-Hao Cao , Qi Liu , Meng Khoon Tey , Li You

We propose a phase estimation protocol for optical interferometry that employs a probe state (containing on average n photons) obtained by squeezing each mode, separately, of a single photon path entangled Bell state. This scheme involves a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-06 Jaspreet Sahota , Daniel F. V. James

We provide general bounds of phase estimation sensitivity in linear two-mode interferometers. We consider probe states with a fluctuating total number of particles. With incoherent mixtures of state with different total number of particles,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Luca Pezzè , Philipp Hyllus , Augusto Smerzi

We investigate phase and frequency estimation with different measurement strategies under the effect of collective phase noise. First, we consider the standard linear estimation scheme and present an experimentally realisable optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-08 Sanah Altenburg , Sabine Wölk , Geza Toth , Otfried Gühne
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