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In current paper, distortions in digital demodulation schemes with harmonic phase modulation for interferometric optical sensors are considered. In particular, the influence of target signal variations on phase demodulation errors is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-08 Leonid Liokumovich , Andrei Medvedev , Konstantin Muravyov , Philipp Skliarov , Nikolai Ushakov

We suggest to use the photon homodyne detection experimental data for checking the Heisenberg and Schr\"{o}dinger-Robertson uncertainty relations, by means of measuring optical tomograms of the photon quantum states.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. I. Man'ko , G. Marmo , A. Simoni , F. Ventriglia

A universal and fault tolerant scheme for quantum computation is proposed which utilizes a class of error correcting codes that is based on the detection of spontaneous emission (of, e.g., photons, phonons, and ripplons). The scheme is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Kaveh L. Khodjasteh , Daniel A. Lidar

In arXiv:2503.00188 we introduced broadband pulsed (BBP) homodyne measurements as a generalization of standard pulsed homodyne quadrature measurements. BBP can take advantage of detectors such as calorimeters that have the potential for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Emanuel Knill , Ezad Shojaee , James R. van Meter , Akira Kyle , Scott Glancy

Low-noise, efficient, phase-sensitive time-domain optical detection is essential for foundational tests of quantum physics based on optical quantum states and the realization of numerous applications ranging from quantum key distribution to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-18 Merlin Cooper , Christoph Söller , Brian J. Smith

Using coherent phase states, parameterized phase state distributions for a single-mode radiation field are introduced and their integral relation to the phase-parameterized field-strength distributions is studied. The integral kernel is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Dakna , L. Knoll , D. -G. Welsch

Quantum optical states which have no coherent amplitude, such as squeezed vacuum states, can not rely on standard readout techniques to generate error signals for control of the quadrature phase. Here we investigate the use of asymmetry in…

In this paper, we study how a displacement of a quantum system appears under a change of relativistic reference frame. We introduce a generic method in which a displacement operator in one reference frame can be transformed into another…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Sho Onoe , Timothy. C. Ralph

We derive a simple formula for the transformation of an arbitrary covariance matrix of (n+2) bosonic modes under general Bell-like detections, where the last two modes are combined in an arbitrary beam splitter (i.e., with arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 Gaetana Spedalieri , Carlo Ottaviani , Stefano Pirandola

Quantum coherence inherently affects the dynamics and the performances of a quantum machine. Coherent control can, at least in principle, enhance the work extraction and boost the velocity of evolution in an open quantum system. Using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 Vasco Cavina , Andrea Mari , Alberto Carlini , Vittorio Giovannetti

Obtaining the expectation value of an observable on a quantum computer is a crucial step in the variational quantum algorithms. For complicated observables such as molecular electronic Hamiltonians, a common strategy is to present the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Tzu-Ching Yen , Aadithya Ganeshram , Artur F. Izmaylov

We study the effect of homodyne detector visibility on the measurement of quadrature squeezing for a spatially multi-mode source of two-mode squeezed light. Sources like optical parametric oscillators (OPO) typically produce squeezing in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-20 Prasoon Gupta , Rory W. Speirs , Kevin M. Jones , Paul D. Lett

We present a homodyne detection scheme to verify Bell's inequality on correlated optical beams at the output of a nondegenerate parametric amplifier. Our approach is based on tomographic measurement of the joint detection probabilities,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-28 G. M. D'Ariano , L. Maccone , M. F. Sacchi , A. Garuccio

A self-homodyne detection scheme is proposed to perform two-mode tomography on a twin-beam state at the output of a nondegenerate optical parametric amplifier. This scheme has been devised to improve the matching between the local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Giacomo M. D'Ariano , Michael Vasilyev , Prem Kumar

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver approach to the electronic structure problem on a quantum computer involves measurement of the Hamiltonian expectation value. Formally, quantum mechanics allows one to measure all mutually commuting or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Tzu-Ching Yen , Vladyslav Verteletskyi , Artur F. Izmaylov

A pulsed balanced homodyne detector has been developed for precise measurements of electric field quadratures of pulsed optical quantum states. A high level of common mode suppression (> 85 dB) and low electronic noise (730 electrons per…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Hansen , T. Aichele , C. Hettich , P. Lodahl , A. I. Lvovsky , J. Mlynek , S. Schiller

In quantum theory, the inescapable interaction between a system and its surroundings would lead to a loss of coherence and leakage of information into the environment. An effective approach to retain the quantum characteristics of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Guohui Dong , Yao Yao

A measurement technique is proposed which, in principle, allows one to observe the general space-time correlation properties of a quantized radiation field. Our method, called balanced homodyne correlation measurement, unifies the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Shchukin , W. Vogel

Context. The diffusion of adaptive optics systems in astronomical instrumentation for large ground-based telescopes is rapidly increasing and the pyramid wavefront sensor is replacing the Shack-Hartmann as the standard solution for single…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-27 Guido Agapito , Enrico Pinna , Simone Esposito , Cedric Taïssir Heritier , Sylvain Oberti

Optical homodyne detection has found use in a range of quantum technologies as both a characterisation tool and as a way to post-selectively generate non-linearities. So far optical implementations have been limited to bulk optics. Here we…