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We provide the optimal measurement strategy for a class of noisy channels that reduce to the identity channel for a specific value of a parameter (spreading channels). We provide an example that is physically relevant: the estimation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Wojciech Górecki , Alberto Riccardi , Lorenzo Maccone

The future laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors sensitivity can be improved using squeezed light. In particular, recently a scheme which uses the optical field with frequency dependent squeeze factor, prepared by means of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Ya. Khalilli

The development of new techniques to improve measurements is crucial for all sciences. By employing quantum systems as sensors to probe some physical property of interest allows the application of quantum resources, such as coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 G. H. Aguilar , M. A. de Souza , R. M. Gomes , J. Thompson , M. Gu , L. C. Céleri , S. P. Walborn

The quantum entanglement enables the precision measurement and frequency metrology beyond the standard quantum limit that is imposed by the quantum projection noise and photon shot noise. Here we propose employing the entangled atoms in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Deshui Yu , Jingbiao Chen , Shougang Zhang

In ref [Phys. Rev. A 106, 013720], the scheme of quantum non-demolition measurement of optical quanta that uses a resonantly enhanced Kerr nonlinearity in optical microresonators was analyzed theoretically. It was shown that using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Stepan Balybin , Dariya Salykina , Farid Ya. Khalili

Quantum metrology seeks to leverage the richness of quantum systems for making better measurements than are possible using only classical resources in order to gain a ``quantum advantage''. Quantum metrology schemes must also be resilient…

We employ quantum state discrimination theory to establish the ultimate limit for spoofing detection in electromagnetic signals encoded with random quantum states. Our analysis yields an analytical expression for the optimal bound, which we…

Quantum illumination (QI) provides entanglement-based target detection---in an entanglement-breaking environment---whose performance is significantly better than that of optimum classical-illumination target detection. QI's performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Quntao Zhuang , Zheshen Zhang , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

We present the enhanced feature quantum autoencoder, or EF-QAE, a variational quantum algorithm capable of compressing quantum states of different models with higher fidelity. The key idea of the algorithm is to define a parameterized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Carlos Bravo-Prieto

The optical spectrum of a quantum system is jointly determined by the properties of the emitter and the driving field. All-optical spectral control can hence be a promising method to engineer the properties of single photon emitters for…

Laser light with squeezed quantum uncertainty is a powerful tool for interferometric sensing. A routine application can be found in gravitational wave observatories. A significant quantum advantage is only achievable if a large fraction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Pascal Gewecke , Jascha Zander , Roman Schnabel

Preparation of a non-classically correlated state is the first step of any quantum-enhanced interferometric protocol. An efficient method is the one-axis twisting, which entangles a collection of initially uncorrelated particles by means of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 K. Gietka , P. Szankowski , T. Wasak , J. Chwedenczuk

Active optical media leading to interaction Hamiltonians of the form $ H = \tilde{\lambda}\, (a + a^{\dagger})^{\zeta}$ represent a crucial resource for quantum optical technology. In this paper, we address the characterization of those…

The frequency of a quantum harmonic oscillator cannot be determined through static measurement strategies on a prepared state, as the eigenstates of the system are independent of its frequency. Therefore, dynamic procedures must be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Simone Cavazzoni , Berihu Teklu , Matteo G. A. Paris

The optimal rate of reliable communication over a quantum channel can be enhanced by pre-shared entanglement. Whereas the enhancement may be unbounded in infinite-dimensional settings even when the input power is constrained, a…

Quantum illumination (QI) provides entanglement-enabled target-detection enhancement, despite operating in an entanglement-breaking environment. Existing experimental studies of QI have utilized a Bayesian approach, assuming that the target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 William Ward , Abdulkarim Hariri , Zheshen Zhang

Quantum metrology offers an enhanced performance in experiments such as gravitational wave-detection, magnetometry or atomic clocks frequency calibration. The enhancement, however, requires a delicate tuning of relevant quantum features…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-25 Jan Kolodynski , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

This study presents a quantum strategy for simultaneous estimation of two physical quantities using different entanglement resources. We explore the utilization of positively or negatively timecorrelated photons. The proposed method enables…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Yongqiang Li , Changliang Ren

Optical frequency combs, named for their comb-like peaks in the spectrum, are essential for various sensing applications. As the technology develops, its performance has reached the standard quantum limit dictated by the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Haowei Shi , Quntao Zhuang

Quantum entanglement, in the form of spin squeezing, is known to improve the sensitivity of atomic sensors to static or slowly varying fields. Sensing transient events presents a distinct challenge, requires different analysis tools, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Julia Amoros-Binefa