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Long-baseline interferometry will be possible using pre-shared entanglement between two telescope sites to mimic the standard phase-scanning interferometer, but without physical beam combination. We show that spatial-mode sorting at each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Isack Padilla , Aqil Sajjad , Babak N. Saif , Saikat Guha

Quantum illumination is a powerful sensing technique that employs entangled signal-idler photon pairs to boost the detection efficiency of low-reflectivity objects in environments with bright thermal noise. The promised advantage over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 S. Barzanjeh , S. Pirandola , D. Vitali , J. M. Fink

In the last years several estimation strategies have been formulated to determine the value of an unknown parameter in the most precise way, taking into account the presence of noise. These strategies typically rely on the use of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Andrea Smirne , Andreas Lemmer , Martin B. Plenio , Susana F. Huelga

We propose methods to perform intensity interferometry of photons having two different wavelengths. Distinguishable particles typically cannot interfere with each other, but we overcome that obstacle by processing the particles via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Jordan Cotler , Frank Wilczek , Victoria Borish

We propose two optimal phase-estimation schemes that can be used for quantum-enhanced long-baseline interferometry. By using distributed entanglement, it is possible to eliminate the loss of stellar photons during transmission over the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-17 Robert Czupryniak , John Steinmetz , Paul G. Kwiat , Andrew N. Jordan

Quantum-enhanced metrology can be achieved by entangling a probe with an auxiliary system, passing the probe through an interferometer, and subsequently making measurements on both the probe and auxiliary system. Conceptually, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 Simon A. Haine , Stuart S. Szigeti

Quantum metrology overcomes standard precision limits by exploiting collective quantum superpositions of physical systems used for sensing, with the prominent example of non-classical multiphoton states improving interferometric techniques.…

Quantum entanglement is a crucial resource for a wide variety of quantum technologies. However, the current state-of-art methods to generate quantum entanglement in optomechanical systems are not as efficient as all-optical methods…

Quantum entanglement is an essential ingredient for the absolute security of quantum communication. Generation of continuous-variable entanglement or two-mode squeezing between light fields based on the effect of electromagnetically induced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 You-Lin Chuang , Ray-Kuang Lee , Ite A. Yu

The non-Gaussian operations effected by adding or subtracting a photon on the entangled optical beams emerging from a parametric down-conversion process have been suggested to enhance entanglement. Heralded photon addition or subtraction…

Entanglement has been proposed as a means to improve the sensitivity of sensing weak signals. While the degree of this quantum advantage is well understood in noiseless settings, the situation is more complex under realistic conditions,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Noah Kaufmann , Kasper H. Nielsen , Eva M. González-Ruiz , Anders S. Sørensen

Balancing high sensitivity with a broad dynamic range is a fundamental challenge in measurement science, as improving one often compromises the other. While traditional quantum metrology has prioritized enhancing local sensitivity, a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Qi Liu , Ming Xue , Matthew Radzihovsky , Xinwei Li , Denis V. Vasilyev , Ling-Na Wu , Vladan Vuletić

When standard light sources are employed, the precision of the phase determination is limited by the shot noise. Quantum entanglement provides means to exceed this limit with the celebrated example of N00N states that saturate the ultimate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-01 M. Kacprowicz , R. Demkowicz-Dobrzanski , W. Wasilewski , K. Banaszek , I. A. Walmsley

We propose an approach to quantum phase estimation that can attain precision near the Heisenberg limit without requiring single-particle-resolved state detection. We show that the "one-axis twisting" interaction, well known for generating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Emily Davis , Gregory Bentsen , Monika Schleier-Smith

Entanglement is an extraordinary feature of quantum mechanics. Sources of entangled optical photons were essential to test the foundations of quantum physics through violations of Bell's inequalities. More recently, entangled many-body…

Entanglement is a counterintuitive feature of quantum physics that is at the heart of quantum technology. High-dimensional quantum states offer unique advantages in various quantum information tasks. Integrated photonic chips have recently…

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…

We consider application of a temporal imaging system, based on the sum-frequency generation, to a nonclassical, in particular, squeezed optical temporal waveform. We analyze the restrictions on the pump and the phase matching condition in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 G. Patera , J. Shi , D. B. Horoshko , M. I. Kolobov

Entanglement detection is a fundamental task in quantum information science, serving as a cornerstone for quantum benchmarking and foundational studies. With an increasing qubit number that can be effectively controlled, there is a pressing…

Phase distortions, or aberrations, can negatively influence the performance of an optical imaging system. Through the use of position-momentum entangled photons, we nonlocally correct for aberrations in one photon's optical path by…