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We address in this work the phase sensitivity of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with Gaussian input states. A squeezed-coherent plus squeezed vacuum input state allows us to unambiguously determine the optimal phase-matching conditions in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 Stefan Ataman

The research focused on enhancing the measurement accuracy through the use of non-Gaussian states has garnered increasing attention. In this study, we propose a scheme to input the coherent state mixed with photon-catalyzed squeezed vacuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Zekun Zhao , Qingqian Kang , Huan Zhang , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

Mach-Zehnder interferometer is a common device in quantum phase estimation and the photon losses in it are an important issue for achieving a high phase accuracy. Here we thoroughly discuss the precision limit of the phase in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 Xu Yu , Xiang Zhao , Luyi Shen , Yanyan Shao , Jing Liu , Xiaoguang Wang

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

Quantum metrology employs quantum resources to achieve measurement precision beyond classical limits. This work investigates a Mach--Zehnder interferometer incorporating a Kerr nonlinear phase shifter, with photon-added two-mode squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Zekun Zhao , Qingqian Kang , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Xin Su , Liyun Hu

We study the precise phase estimation using squeezed states with photon losses present. Our exact quantum Fisher information calculation shows significant quantum enhancement and thus reveals the benchmark for practical quantum metrology in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-13 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Yu-Xiang Yang , Xiang-Bin Wang

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

We investigate quantum phase estimation in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer using q-deformed photon states, including q-coherent and q-cat states, which model realistic deviations from ideal light sources. By deriving closed-form photon count…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Duttatreya , Sanjib Dey

We study the phase super-sensitivity of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) with the squeezed Kerr and coherent states as the inputs. We discuss the lower bound in phase sensitivity by considering the quantum Fisher information (QFI) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Dhiraj Yadav , Gaurav Shukla , Priyanka Sharma , Devendra Kumar Mishra

The accuracy of quantum measurements can be effectively improved by using both photon-added non-Gaussian operations and Kerr nonlinear phase shifters. Here, we employ coherent state mixed photon-added squeezed vacuum state as input into a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Zekun Zhao , Qingqian Kang , Shoukang Chang , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Xin Su , Liyun Hu

Based on the conventional Mach-Zehnder interferometer, we propose a metrological scheme to improve phase sensitivity. In this scheme, we use a coherent state and a squeezed vacuum state as input states, employ multi-photon-subtraction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Qisi Zhou , Qinqian Kang , Tao Jiang , Zekun Zhao , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

A nonlinear phase shift is introduced to a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), and we present a scheme for enhancing the phase sensitivity. In our scheme, one input port of a standard MZI is injected with a coherent state and the other input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-29 Gao-Feng Jiao , Keye Zhang , L. Q. Chen , Weiping Zhang , Chun-Hua Yuan

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

Determining the phase in one arm of a quantum interferometer is discussed taking into account the three non-ideal aspects in real experiments: non-deterministic state preparation, non-unitary state evolution due to losses during state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Thomas B. Bahder

We study the sensitivity of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer that contains in addition to the phase shifter a non-linear element. By including both elements in a cavity or a loop that the light transverses many times, a non-linear kicked…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Sabrina Müller , Daniel Braun

We theoretically investigate the phase sensitivity with parity detection on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with a coherent state combined with a photon-added squeezed vacuum state. When the phase shift approaches zero, the squeezed vacuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Shui Wang , Xuexiang Xu , Yejun Xu , Lijian Zhang

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

Using multi-photon entangled input states, we estimate the phase uncertainty in a noiseless Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) using photon-counting detection. We assume a flat prior uncertainty and use Bayesian inference to construct a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 Shreyas Sadugol , Lev Kaplan

Recent advances in quantum photonics have enabled increasingly robust protocols in optical phase estimation, achieving precisions beyond the standard quantum limit and approaching the Heisenberg limit. While intrinsic losses hinder the…

The sensitivity in optical interferometry is strongly affected by losses during the signal propagation or at the detection stage. The optimal quantum states of the probing signals in the presence of loss were recently found. However, in…

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