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Single photons and squeezed light are the two primary workhorses for quantum computation and quantum communication. Generating high-efficiency single photons with high purity and heralding efficiency is the prerequisite for photonic quantum…
Significant efforts have been made to enhance the performance of displacement sensors limited by quantum noise, such as gravitational wave detectors. Techniques like frequency-dependent squeezing have overcome the standard quantum limit in…
Quantum optical sensors are ubiquitous in various fields of research, from biological or medical sensors to large-scale experiments searching for dark matter or gravitational waves. Gravitational-wave detectors have been very successful in…
The ultimate precision of phase estimation is limited by the Heisenberg scaling $\Delta\phi_0 = K/N$, where $K\sim1$ is a numerical prefactor and $N$ is the mean number of photons interacting with the phase shifting object(s). However,…
The use of an interferometer to perform an ultra-precise parameter estimation under noisy conditions is a challenging task. Here we discuss nearly optimal measurement schemes for a well known,sensitive input state, squeezed vacuum and…
In this paper, we present a fully fiber-based one-way Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system implementing the Gaussian-Modulated Coherent States (GMCS) protocol. The system employs a double Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) configuration in…
Ramsey interferometry allows the estimation of the phase $\phi$ of rotation of the pseudospin vector of an ensemble of two-state quantum systems. For $\phi$ small, the noise-to-signal ratio scales as the spin-squeezing parameter $\xi$, with…
Quantum squeezed states, with reduced quantum noise, have been widely utilized in quantum sensing and quantum error correction applications. However, generating and manipulating these nonclassical states with a large squeezing degree…
In this work, we introduce an experimentally viable scheme to enhance the simultaneous estimation precision of the couplings $G_{mc}$ and $G_{mb}$, with a particular focus on the performance of heterodyne detection. By comparing…
The hybrid interferometer integrating an optical parametric amplifier and a beam splitter has the potential to outperform the SU(1,1) interferometer. However, photon loss remains a critical limitation for practical implementation. To…
Quantum metrology is the state-of-the-art measurement technology. It uses quantum resources to enhance the sensitivity of phase estimation beyond what reachable within classical physics. While single parameter estimation theory has been…
We address characterization of lossy and dephasing channels in the presence of self-Kerr interaction using coherent probes. In particular, we investigate the ultimate bounds to precision in the joint estimation of loss and nonlinearity and…
Multimode quantum light has promising applications in many areas of physics, such as quantum communications and quantum computing. However, its multimode nature also makes it challenging to measure its properties. Recently [Optica Quantum…
Quantum sensors driven into the quantum chaotic regime can have dramatically enhanced sensitivity, which, however, depends intricately on the details of the underlying classical phase space. Here, we develop an accurate semiclassical…
Quantum-enhanced multiparameter sensing is often associated with distributed architectures or 2-anticoherent states, whereas squeezing in a single collective ensemble is typically limited to single-parameter metrology. Here, we show that a…
We calculate the utility of high-frequency squeezed-state enhanced two-frequency interferometry for low-frequency phase measurement. To use the high-frequency sidebands of the squeezed light, a two-frequency intense laser is used in the…