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Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond allow measurement of environment properties such as temperature, magnetic and electric fields at nanoscale level, of utmost relevance for several research fields, ranging from nanotechnologies to…

Cold-atom magnetometers can achieve an exceptional combination of superior sensitivity and high spatial resolution. One key challenge these quantum sensors face is improving the sensitivity within a given timeframe while preserving a high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Zhu Ma , Chengyin Han , Zhi Tan , Haihua He , Shenszhen Shi , Xin Kang , Jiatao Wu , Jiahao Huang , Bo Lu , Chaohong Lee

We describe a detector that measures the mutual coherence of two optical fields directly using quantum interference, free from photon noise of the individual irradiances. Our approach utilizes Raman transition in an atomic system where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-16 Jungsang Kim , David J. Brady

Quantum sensors typically translate external fields into a periodic response whose frequency is then determined by analyses performed in Fourier space. This allows for a linear inference of the parameters that characterize external signals.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 R. Puebla , Y. Ban , J. F. Haase , M. B. Plenio , M. Paternostro , J. Casanova

High-precision frequency estimation is an ubiquitous issue in fundamental physics and a critical task in spectroscopy. Here, we propose a quantum Ramsey interferometry to realize high-precision frequency estimation in spin-1 Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Min Zhuang , Hongtao Huo , Yuxiang Qiu , Wenjie Liu , Jiahao Huang , Chaohong Lee

Incorporating a variable capacitance diode into a radio-frequency matching circuit allows us to in-situ tune the resonance frequency of an RF quantum point contact, increasing the versatility of the latter as a fast charge sensor of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-19 Thomas Müller , Bruno Küng , Paul Studerus , Sarah Hellmüller , Klaus Ensslin , Thomas Ihn , Matthias Reinwald , Werner Wegscheider

In this study, we developed a diamond quantum magnetometer based on Ramsey interferometry with a short sensor-to-sample distance. Conventional biomagnetic sensors with ensemble nitrogen-vacancy centers using continuous-wave optically…

We demonstrate a highly sensitive real-time magnetometry method at two measurement points. This magnetometry method is based on the frequency-division multiplexing of continuous-wave optically detected magnetic resonance. We use two…

Molecular spins offer a promising platform for quantum sensing, particularly in organic, supramolecular or biological environments. Recognition of the signals by these systems is of particular interest given their possible integration into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 M. Lanza , C. Bonizzoni , O. Mironova , F. Santanni , A. Nicolini , A. Ghirri , A. Cornia , M. Affronte

Ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors are highly precise sensors for weak forces, limited in sensitivity across their detection band by quantum fluctuations of light. Current and future instruments address this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Yohei Nishino , Stefan Danilishin , Yutaro Enomoto , Teng Zhang

Optical frequency combs combine ultrashort pulse duration and phase stability, making them powerful resources for high-precision ranging even when affected by atmospheric dispersion. It has been established that by classical modal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Mylenne Manrique , Ilaria Gianani , Marco Barbieri , Valentina Parigi , Nicolas Treps

Real-time frequency readout of time-dependent pulsed signals with a high sensitivity are key elements in many applications using atomic devices, such as FID atomic magnetometers. In this paper, we propose a frequency measurement algorithm…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-06 Tong Gong , Ming-Rui Shu , Jiang He , Kai Liu , Yi-Ren Li , Xin-Jun Hao , Dong Sheng , Yu-Ming Wang , Yu-Kun Feng

Quantum sensors allow us to measure weak oscillating fields with incredible precision. One common approach is to use the time evolution of a single two-level system (or a qubit) in conjunction with applied control pulses to measure the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Rizwan Abbas , Ali Raza Mirza , Adam Zaman Chaudhry

The Heisenberg time-energy relation prevents determination of an atomic transition to better than the inverse of the measurement time. The relation generally applies to frequency estimation of a near-resonant field [1-3], since information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Liam P. McGuinness

Rydberg-atom electric field sensing has shown great potential from near-DC to THz with state-of-the-art measurement metrics realized in sensitivity, phase extraction, multi-band receptivity, etc. While Rydberg-atom sensors have shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Aveek Chandra , Narongrit Paensin , Rainer Dumke

We demonstrate a new method for measuring radio frequency (RF) electric fields based on quantum interference in an atom. Using a bright resonance prepared within an electromagnetically induced transparency window we are able to achieve a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-05-22 J. Sedlacek , A. Schwettmann , H. Kübler , R. Löw , T. Pfau , J. P. Shaffer

Precise timekeeping is critical to metrology, forming the basis by which standards of time, length and fundamental constants are determined. Stable clocks are particularly valuable in spectroscopy as they define the ultimate frequency…

Realistic quantum sensors face a trade-off between the number of sensors measured in parallel and the control and readout fidelity ($F$) across the ensemble. We investigate how the number of sensors and fidelity affect sensitivity to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Sara Mouradian , Neil Glikin , Eli Megidish , Kai-Isaak Ellers , Hartmut Haeffner

We demonstrate the simultaneous estimation of signal frequency and amplitude by a single quantum sensor in a single experimental shot. Sweeping the qubit splitting linearly across a span of frequencies induces a non-adiabatic Landau-Zener…

Solid-state magnetometers like the Nitrogen-Vacancy center in diamond have been of paramount importance for the development of quantum sensing with nanoscale spatial resolution. The basic protocol is a Ramsey sequence, that imprints an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Raúl Coto , Hossein T. Dinani , Ariel Norambuena , Mo Chen , Jerónimo R. Maze