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The nonlinear quantum regime is crucial for implementing interesting quantum effects, which have wide applications in modern quantum science. Here we propose an effective method to reach the nonlinear quantum regime in a modulated…

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We utilize the generation of large atomic coherence to enhance the resonant nonlinear magneto-optic effect by several orders of magnitude, thereby eliminating power broadening and improving the fundamental signal-to-noise ratio. A…

Quantum-intensity-correlated twin beams of light can be used to measure absorption with precision beyond the classical shot-noise limit. The degree to which this can be achieved with a given estimator is defined by the quality of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Jason D. Mueller , Nigam Samantaray , Jonathan C. F. Matthews

Quantum light generated in non-degenerate squeezers has many applications such as sub-shot-noise transmission measurements to maximise the information extracted by one photon or quantum illumination to increase the probability in target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Stefan Frick , Alex McMillan , John Rarity

Absorption spectroscopy is a widely used technique that permits the detection and characterization of gas species at low concentrations. We propose a sensing strategy combining the advantages of frequency modulation spectroscopy with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-30 Alexandre Belsley

Multimode squeezed light is a key resource for high-dimensional quantum technologies, enhancing metrological sensitivity, boosting communication security, and enabling parallel processing in computation. Its practical potential, however,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Mahmoud Kalash , Aditya Sudharsanam , M. H. M. Passos , Valentina Parigi , Maria Chekhova

Phase-sensitive amplification of squeezed states is a technique to mitigate high detection loss, e.g. at 2-micrometre wavelengths. Our analytical model of amplified squeezed states expands on the effect of phase noise and derives two…

Quantum systems are powerful detectors with wide-ranging applications from scanning probe microscopy of materials to biomedical imaging. Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, for instance, can be operated as qubits for sensing of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Christopher I. Timms , Michael H. Kolodrubetz

Squeezing of light's quantum noise requires temporal rearranging of photons. This again corresponds to creation of quantum correlations between individual photons. Squeezed light is a non-classical manifestation of light with great…

We explore experimentally quantum non-demolition (QND) measurements of atomic spin in a hot potassium vapor in the presence of spin-exchange relaxation. We demonstrate a new technique for back-action evasion by stroboscopic modulation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Vasilakis , V. Shah , M. V. Romalis

In order to implement fault-tolerant quantum computation, entanglement generation with low error probability and high success probability is required. We have proposed the use of squeezed coherent light as a probe to generate entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Fumiaki Matsuoka , Akihisa Tomita , Atsushi Okamoto

We study the photon counting noise in optical interferometers used for gravitational wave detection. In order to reduce quantum noise a squeezed vacuum is injected into the usually unused input port. It is investigated under which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Volodymyr G. Voronov , Michael Weyrauch

Laser spectroscopy and interferometry have provided an unparalleled view into the fundamental nature of matter and the universe through ultra-precise measurements of atomic transition frequencies and gravitational waves. Optical frequency…

Measuring the spectral properties of an optical frequency comb is among the most fundamental tasks of precision metrology. In contrast to general single-parameter measurement schemes, we demonstrate here single shot multiparameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-16 Y. Cai , J. Roslund , V. Thiel , C. Fabre , N. Treps

Nonlinear forces allow motion of a mechanical oscillator to be squeezed below the zero-point motion. Of existing methods, mechanical parametric amplification is relatively accessible, but previously thought to be limited to 3dB of squeezing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-17 Alex Szorkovszky , Andrew C. Doherty , Glen I. Harris , Warwick P. Bowen

We propose an experiment to extract ponderomotive squeezing from an interferometer with high circulating power and low mass mirrors. In this interferometer, optical resonances of the arm cavities are detuned from the laser frequency,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Corbitt , Y. Chen , F. Khalili , D. Ottaway , S. Vyatchanin , S. Whitcomb , N. Mavalvala

We report quantum enhancement of Faraday rotation spin noise spectroscopy by polarization squeezing of the probe beam. Using natural abundance Rb in 100 Torr of N_2 buffer gas, and squeezed light from a sub-threshold optical parametric…

We study the process of squeezing of an ensemble of cold atoms in a pulsed optical lattice. The problem is treated both classically and quantum-mechanically under various thermal conditions. We show that a dramatic compression of the atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Leibscher , I. Sh. Averbukh

In this work, we present a comprehensive and comparative analysis of two detection modalities, i.e., polarization rotation and absorption measurement of light, for a double resonance alignment based optical magnetometer (DRAM). We derive…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-11 A. Akbar , M. Kozbiál , L. Elson , A. Meraki , J. Kolodyński , K. Jensen

Cavity magnomechanics, exhibiting remarkable experimental tunability, rich magnonic nonlinearities, and compatibility with various quantum systems, has witnessed considerable advances in recent years. However, the potential benefits of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Qian Zhang , Jie Wang , Tian-Xiang Lu , Franco Nori , Hui Jing