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Imperfections in integrated photonics manufacturing have a detrimental effect on the maximal achievable visibility in interferometric architectures. These limits have profound implications for further photonics technological developments…

The simultaneous two-parameter estimation problem in single squeezed-light Mach-Zehnder interferometer with double-port homodyne detection is investigated in this work. The analytical form of the two-parameter quantum Cramer-Bao bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Li-li Hou , Jian-Dong Zhang , Kai-Min Zheng , Shuai Wang

Quantum states of light can enable sensing configurations with sensitivities beyond the shot-noise limit (SNL). In order to better take advantage of available quantum resources and obtain the maximum possible sensitivity, it is necessary to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-21 Mohammadjavad Dowran , Timothy S. Woodworth , Ashok Kumar , Alberto M. Marino

Quantum metrology promises greater sensitivity for optical phase measurements than could ever be achieved classically. Here we present a theory of the phase sensitivity for the general case where the detection probability is given by an $N$…

We theoretically analyze a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with trapped condensates, and find that it is surprisingly stable against the nonlinearity induced by inter-particle interactions. The phase sensitivity, which we study for number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-17 Julian Grond , Ulrich Hohenester , Joerg Schmiedmayer , Augusto Smerzi

We describe a resonantly enhanced Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) that can be operated over a wide temperature range of 55C without being actively biased, while providing a significant resonant enhancement of 6.8 at the nominal wavelength /…

Quantum interferometers offer phase measurement capabilities that surpass the standard quantum limit (SQL), with phase sensitivity and quantum enhancement factor serving as key performance metrics. However, practical implementations face…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jie Zhao , Zeliang Wu , Haoran Liu , Yueya Liu , Xin Chen , Xinyun Liang , Wenfeng Huang , Chun-Hua Yuan , L. Q. Chen

For a HOM interferometer with two independent incident pulses, the interference pattern can be affected by adding a dispersion medium on one of the incident directions, but there hasn't been a method to reconstruct the phase constant of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Yuhang Lei , Wen Zhao , Liang cui , Xiaoyin Li

This work presents techniques which can allow low-cost phased-array receivers to be reconfigured as interferometric imagers and thereby reducing cost. Since traditional phased arrays power combine incoming signals prior to digitization,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-21 Vikas Chauhan

Terahertz wireless communications offer abundant untapped spectrum and are regarded as a promising playground for next-generation high-throughput links. Yet oscillator phase noise becomes the dominant impairment at such high frequencies,…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-03 Bowen Liu , Takasumi Tanabe

We have previously shown that quantum-enhanced atom interferometry can be achieved by mapping the quantum state of squeezed optical vacuum to one of the atomic inputs via a beamsplitter-like process [Phys.~Rev.~A \textbf{90}, 063630…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 Behnam Tonekaboni , Simon A. Haine , Stuart S. Szigeti

This paper explores the sensitivity gains afforded by spin-squeezed states in atom interferometry, in particular using Bragg diffraction. We introduce a generalised input-output formalism that accurately describes realistic, non-unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Julian Günther , Jan-Niclas Kirsten-Siemß , Naceur Gaaloul , Klemens Hammerer

Quantum devices exploiting twistronics by stacking two-dimensional materials could enable breakthroughs in computing and sensing beyond the limits of current transistors. Scaling up these devices poses grand challenges for in situ…

We theoretically study the quantum Fisher information (QFI) of the SU(1,1) interferometer with phase shifts in two arms taking account of realistic noise effects. A generalized phase transform including the phase diffusion effect is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Xiu-Ling Hu , Dong Li , L. Q. Chen , Keye Zhang , Weiping Zhang , Chun-Hua Yuan

In an unseeded SU(1,1) interferometer composed of two cascaded degenerate parametric amplifiers, with direct detection at the output, we demonstrate a phase sensitivity overcoming the shot noise limit by 2.3 dB. The interferometer is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Mathieu Manceau , Gerd Leuchs , Farid Khalili , Maria Chekhova

Homodyne detection is often used for interferometers based on nonlinear optical gain media. For the configuration of a seeded, 'truncated SU(1,1)' interferometer Anderson et al. (Phys. Rev. A 95, 063843 (2017)) showed how to optimize the…

Observation of the Fano line shapes is essential to understand properties of the Fano resonance in different physical systems. We explore a tunable Fano resonance by tuning the phase shift in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) based on a…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-24 Jian-Qi Zhang , Yi Xu , Keyu Xia , Zhi-Ping Dai , Wen Yang , Shangqing Gong , Mang Feng

We investigate how squeezing techniques can improve the measurement precision in multiphase quantum metrology. While these methods are well-studied and effectively used in single-phase estimations, their usage in multiphase situations has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Le Bin Ho

Absolute sensitivity is measured for the phase measurement in an SU(1,1) type interferometer and the results are compared to that of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer operated under the condition of the same intra-interferometer intensity. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Wei Du , Jun Jia , J. F. Chen , Z. Y. Ou , Weiping Zhang

Achieving the ultimate quantum precision in the estimation of multiple physical parameters simultaneously is a challenge in quantum metrology due to fundamental limitations and experimental challenges in harnessing the necessary quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Atmadev Rai , Danilo Triggiani , Paolo Facchi , Vincenzo Tamma