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Dynamic control of atomic dressing to the highly-excited Rydberg state in multi-level systems has special appeals owing to the development of flexible and precise measurement. In this study we develop an experimentally-accessible proposal…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Yichun Gao , Yinghui Ren , Dongmin Yu , Jing Qian

Rydberg atom-based radio frequency electromagnetic field sensors are drawing wide-spread interest because of their unique properties, such as small size, dielectric construction, and self-calibration. These photonic sensors use lasers to…

Quantum batteries (QBs), as emerging quantum devices for energy storage and transfer, have attracted significant attention due to their potential to surpass classical batteries in charging efficiency and energy density. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Jin-Tian Zhang , Cheng-Ge Liu , Qing Ai

We propose a theoretical scheme for quantum sensing of temperature close to absolute zero in a quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). In our scheme, a single-atom impurity qubit is used as a temper-ature sensor. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Ji-Bing Yuan , Bo Zhang , Ya-Ju Song , Shi-Qing Tang , Xin-Wen Wang , Le-Man Kuang

Rydberg-assisted atomic electrometry with thermal vapors offers a promising approach for detecting external electric fields. However, this technique presents significant challenges for measuring low frequencies due to the effects of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yu-Chi Chen , Shao-Cheng Fang , Hsuan-Jui Su , Yi-Hsin Chen

Quantum sensors based on single solid-state spins promise a unique combination of sensitivity and spatial resolution. The key challenge in sensing is to achieve minimum estimation uncertainty within a given time and with a high dynamic…

Industrial, metrological, and medical applications provide a strong technological pull for advanced nanoscale sensors exploiting the unique sensitivity of quantum coherent systems to their environments. Essential to the functionality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 V. M. Frey , S. Mavadia , L. M. Norris , W. de Ferranti , D. Lucarelli , L. Viola , M. J. Biercuk

Employing electro-optic sampling (EOS) with ultrashort probe pulses, recent experiments showed direct measurements of quantum vacuum fields and their correlations on subcycle timescales. Here, we propose a quantum-enhanced EOS where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Stéphane Virally , Patrick Cusson , Denis V. Seletskiy

The precision advantages offered by harnessing the quantum states of sensors can be readily compromised by noise. However, when the noise has a different spatial function than the signal of interest, recent theoretical work shows how the…

We consider a quantum sensor network of qubit sensors coupled to a field $f(\vec{x};\vec{\theta})$ analytically parameterized by the vector of parameters $\vec\theta$. The qubit sensors are fixed at positions $\vec{x}_1,\dots,\vec{x}_d$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Timothy Qian , Jacob Bringewatt , Igor Boettcher , Przemyslaw Bienias , Alexey V. Gorshkov

Photonic sensors have many applications in a range of physical settings, from measuring mechanical pressure in manufacturing to detecting protein concentration in biomedical samples. A variety of sensing approaches exist, and plasmonic…

Entangled quantum probes can achieve Heisenberg-limited measurement precision, but this advantage is typically destroyed by noise. We address this issue by introducing a framework that we call encoded quantum signal processing, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Carlos Ortiz Marrero , Rui Jie Tang , Nathan Wiebe

Quantum sensing technologies have experienced rapid progresses since entering the `second quantum revolution'. Among various candidates, schemes relying on Rydberg atoms exhibit compelling advantages for detecting radio frequency signals.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Tierui Gong , Chau Yuen , Chong Meng Samson See , Mérouane Debbah , Lajos Hanzo

Quantum metrology utilizes nonclassical resources, such as entanglement or squeezed light, to realize sensors whose performance exceeds that afforded by classical-state systems. Environmental loss and noise, however, easily destroy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Quntao Zhuang , Zheshen Zhang , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Conventional classical sensors are approaching their maximum sensitivity levels in many areas. Yet these levels still are far from the ultimate limits dictated by quantum mechanics. Quantum sensors promise a substantial step ahead by taking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Aaron Z. Goldberg , Andrei B. Klimov , Gerd Leuchs , Luis L. Sanchez-Soto

We derive an exact expression for the quantumness of a Hilbert space (defined in quant-ph/0302092), and show that in composite Hilbert spaces the signal states must contain at least some entangled states in order to achieve such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher A. Fuchs

Quantum sensing has attracted significant attention due to its ability to measure physical quantities with extremely high accuracy. Rydberg atoms - typically alkali atoms with a highly excited valence electron that is far from the nucleus -…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Javane Rostampoor , Raviraj Adve

Quantum sensors hold considerable promise for precision measurement, yet their capabilities are inherently constrained by environmental noise. A fundamental task in quantum sensing is determining the precision limit of noisy sensor devices.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Dayou Yang , Moulik Ketkar , Koenraad Audenaert , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Discrimination of coherent states beyond the standard quantum limit (SQL) is an important tasknot only for quantum information processing but also for optical coherent communication. In orderto optimize long distance optical fiber networks,…

The Einstein-Bohr recoiling-slit gedankenexperiment, a cornerstone of quantum complementarity, has long been constrained by the zero-point fluctuations of the atomic slit -- the spatial Standard Quantum Limit (SQL). Here we transcend this…