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We theoretically studied the quantum Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound of an actively correlated Mach-Zehnder interferometer (ACMZI), where the quantum Fisher information obtained by the phase-averaging method can give the proper phase-sensing limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Qiang Wang , Gao-Feng Jiao , Zhifei Yu , L. Q. Chen , Weiping Zhang , Chun-Hua Yuan

Although quantum metrology allows us to make precision measurement beyond the standard quantum limit, it mostly works on the measurement of only one observable due to Heisenberg uncertainty relation on the measurement precision of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Jiamin Li , Yuhong Liu , Liang Cui , Nan Huo , Syed M Assad , Xiaoying Li , Z. Y. Ou

We theoretically study the effect of quantum statistics of the light field on the quantum enhancement of parameter estimation based on cat state input the SU(1,1) interferometer. The phase sensitivity is dependent on the relative phase…

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

We calculate quantum and classical Fisher informations for gravity sensors based on matterwave interference, and find that current Mach-Zehnder interferometry is not optimally extracting the full metrological potential of these sensors. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Michail Kritsotakis , Stuart S. Szigeti , Jacob A. Dunningham , Simon A. Haine

We propose and implement a quantum procedure for enhancing the sensitivity with which one can determine the phase shift experienced by a weak light beam possessing thermal statistics in passing through an interferometer. Our procedure…

We consider dephasing in the electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer strongly coupled to current noise created by a voltage biased quantum point contact (QPC). We find the visibility of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations as a function voltage bias…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-16 Ivan P. Levkivskyi , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

Quantum Cramer-Rao (QCR) bound is attached to a particular nonclassical state, therefore appropriate choice of the probe state is of the key importance to enhance sensitivity beyond classical one. Since the work of C.M. Caves (Phys. Rev. D…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Mikhail S. Podoshvedov , Sergey A. Podoshvedov

We analyse a nonlinear interferometer, also known as an SU(1,1) interferometer, in the presence of internal losses and inefficient detectors. To overcome these limitations, we consider the effect of seeding one of the interferometer input…

Possible paths of a photon passing through a nested Mach-Zehnder interferometer on its way to a detector are analyzed using the consistent histories formulation of quantum mechanics, and confirmed using a set of weak measurements (but not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Robert B. Griffiths

This work was motivated by the quest for observing interference of fractionally charged quasi particles. Here, we study the behavior of an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) at the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) regime at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Itamar Gurman , Ron Sabo , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Diana Mahalu

We analyze the creation of spin squeezed atomic ensembles by simultaneous dispersive interactions with several optical frequencies. A judicious choice of optical parameters enables optimization of an interferometric detection scheme that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-14 M. Saffman , D. Oblak , J. Appel , E. S. Polzik

The employment of path entangled multiphoton states enables measurement of phase with enhanced precision. It is common practice to demonstrate the unique properties of such quantum states by measuring super-resolving oscillations in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Itai Afek , Oron Ambar , Yaron Silberberg

Manipulating cold atoms in traps is a key tool for numerous realizations of quantum simulators and quantum sensors. They require accurate modeling and characterization of the underlying trapping potentials. We introduce a technique based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Alexander Wolf , Maxim A. Efremov

We consider theoretically an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer constructed from quantum Hall edge channels and quantum point contacts, fed with single electrons from a dynamic quantum dot source. By considering the energy dependence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Clarissa J. Barratt , Sungguen Ryu , Lewis A. Clark , H. -S. Sim , Masaya Kataoka , Clive Emary

Quantum interference is typically detected through the dependence of the interference signal on certain parameters (path length, Aharonov-Bohm flux, etc.), which can be varied in a controlled manner. The destruction of interference by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Iliya Esin , Alessandro Romito , Yuval Gefen

Quantum-enhanced phase estimation paves the way to ultra-precision sensing and is of great realistic significance. In this paper we investigate theoretically the estimation of a second-order nonlinear phase shift using a coherent state and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Jian-Dong Zhang , Zi-Jing Zhang , Long-Zhu Cen , Jun-Yan Hu , Yuan Zhao

The sensitivity properties of an SU(1,1) interferometer made of two cascaded parametric amplifiers, as well as of an ordinary SU(2) interferometer preceded by a squeezer and followed by an anti-squeezer, are theoretically investigated.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Mathieu Manceau , Farid Khalili , Maria Chekhova

We analyze theoretically and experimentally cases of asymmetric detection, stimulation, and loss within a quantum nonlinear interferometer of entangled pairs. We show that the visibility of the SU(1,1) interference directly discerns between…

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