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We theoretically investigate the phase sensitivity with parity detection on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with a coherent state combined with a photon-added squeezed vacuum state. When the phase shift approaches zero, the squeezed vacuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Shui Wang , Xuexiang Xu , Yejun Xu , Lijian Zhang

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

We quantitatively investigate phase measurement in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), which is injected with a weak coherent and a squeezed vacuum generated from a spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The measured three-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Lifeng Duan

We address the performance of an interferometric setup in which a squeezed single photon interferes at a beam splitter with a coherent state. Our analysis in based on both the quantum Fisher information and the sensitivity when a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-09 Stefano Olivares , Maria Popovic , Matteo G. A. Paris

We propose a high-precision phase estimation scheme in a hybrid interferometer by synergistically combining a Kerr nonlinear phase shifter and multi-photon subtraction operations. Using a coherent state and a vacuum state as input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Lifen Guo , Qingqian Kang , Zekun Zhao , Jifeng Sun , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Xin Su , Liyun Hu

We study the phase sensitivity in the conventional $SU(2)$ and nonconventional $SU(1,1)$ interferometers with the coherent and squeezed vacuum input state via the quantum Cramer-Rao bound. We explicitly construct the detection scheme that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Yang Gao

In this work, we discuss two phase-measurement methods for the Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) in the presence of internal losses and give the corresponding optimum conditions. We find theoretically that when the core parameters…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-23 Wenfeng Huang , Xinyun Liang , Chun-Hua Yuan , Weiping Zhang , Liqing Chen

We consider an optical interferometer with coherent light in one input and a squeezed vacuum in another. Such an interferometer is known to beat the standard quantum limit of sensitivity to the difference of phase shifts in its arms. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Dmitri B. Horoshko , Fedor Jelezko

We study sensitivity of phase estimation of Mach-Zehnder (MZ) interferometer with original two-mode squeezed vacuum (TMSV) state. At the initial stage, the TMSV state is converted into two single-mode squeezed vacuum (SMSV) states, from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Mikhail S. Podoshvedov , Sergey A. Podoshvedov

Mach-Zehnder interferometer is a common device in quantum phase estimation and the photon losses in it are an important issue for achieving a high phase accuracy. Here we thoroughly discuss the precision limit of the phase in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 Xu Yu , Xiang Zhao , Luyi Shen , Yanyan Shao , Jing Liu , Xiaoguang Wang

The research focused on enhancing the measurement accuracy through the use of non-Gaussian states has garnered increasing attention. In this study, we propose a scheme to input the coherent state mixed with photon-catalyzed squeezed vacuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Zekun Zhao , Qingqian Kang , Huan Zhang , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

We give an analytical result for the quantum Fisher information of entangled coherent States in a lossy Mach-Zehnder Interferometer recently proposed by J. Joo et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 083601(2011)]. For small loss of photons, we find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 Xiaoxing Jing , Jing Liu , Wei Zhong , Xiaoguang Wang

We analytically investigate the sensitivity of Kerr nonlinear phase estimation in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with two-mode squeezed vacuum states. We find that such a metrological scheme could access a sensitivity scaling over the Boixo…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Yun-Feng Guo , Wei Zhong , Lan Zhou , Yu-Bo Sheng

We study the multiparameter sensitivity bounds of a sensor made by an array of $d$ spatially-distributed Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZIs). A generic single non-classical state is mixed with $d-1$ vacuums to create a $d$-modes entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Luca Pezzè , Augusto Smerzi

High precision interferometers are the building blocks of precision metrology and the ultimate interferometric sensitivity is limited by the quantum noise. Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate a compact quantum interferometer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Xiaojie Zuo , Zhihui Yan , Yanni Feng , Jingxu Ma , Xiaojun Jia , Changde Xie , Kunchi Peng

Using multi-photon entangled input states, we estimate the phase uncertainty in a noiseless Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) using photon-counting detection. We assume a flat prior uncertainty and use Bayesian inference to construct a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 Shreyas Sadugol , Lev Kaplan

We present in this letter a scheme for optical interferometry. We utilize coherent-beam-stimulated two-mode squeezed light, which interacts with a phase shifter and is then squeezed again before detection. Our theoretical device has the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 William N. Plick , Jonathan P. Dowling , G. S. Agarwal

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…

The Mach-Zehnder interferometer is a fundamental tool for measuring phase shifts between two light paths, serving as a crucial prototype for achieving high-precision measurements in various scientific and technological applications. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Bing-Shu Hu , Xiao-Ming Lu

In ref [Phys. Rev. A 106, 013720], the scheme of quantum non-demolition measurement of optical quanta that uses a resonantly enhanced Kerr nonlinearity in optical microresonators was analyzed theoretically. It was shown that using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Stepan Balybin , Dariya Salykina , Farid Ya. Khalili