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Quantum metrology aims to exploit quantum phenomena to overcome classical limitations in the estimation of relevant parameters. We consider a probe undergoing a phase shift $\varphi$ whose generator is randomly sampled according to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Rozhin Yousefjani , Rosanna Nichols , Shahriar Salimi , Gerardo Adesso

Quantum sensing has drawn considerable attention as a means to overcome the fundamental limitations in classical sensing. In practice, however, quantum sensing has been strongly constrained by the photon loss, the achievable photon number N…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 B. S. Ham

We sense the motion of a trapped atomic ion using a sequence of state-dependent ultrafast momentum kicks. We use this atom interferometer to characterize a nearly-pure quantum state with $n=1$ phonon and accurately measure thermal states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 K. G. Johnson , B. Neyenhuis , J. Mizrahi , J. D. Wong-Campos , C. Monroe

High-precision measurements are crucial for testing the fundamental laws of nature and for advancing the technological frontier. Clock interferometry, where particles with an internal clock are coherently split and recombined along two…

Sensing a classical signal using a linear quantum device is a pervasive application of quantum-enhanced measurement. The fundamental precision limits of linear waveform estimation, however, are not fully understood. In certain cases, there…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-02 James W. Gardner , Tuvia Gefen , Simon A. Haine , Joseph J. Hope , Yanbei Chen

Achieving high-frequency spectral resolution with quantum sensors, while crucial in fields ranging from physical to biological sciences, is challenging due to their finite coherence time. Here, we introduce a novel protocol that achieves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Jungbae Yoon , Keyuan Zhong , Guoqing Wang , Boning Li , Donghun Lee , Paola Cappellaro

Interferometric phase measurement is widely used to precisely determine quantities such as length, speed, and material properties. Without quantum correlations, the best phase sensitivity $\Delta\varphi$ achievable using $n$ photons is the…

We demonstrate the ultimate sensitivity allowed by quantum physics in the estimation of the time delay between two photons by measuring their interference at a beam-splitter through frequency-resolving sampling measurements. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Danilo Triggiani , Giorgos Psaroudis , Vincenzo Tamma

The manifestation of the wave nature of light through diffraction imposes limits on the resolution of optical imaging. For over a century, the Abbe-Rayleigh criterion has been utilized to assess the spatial resolution limits of optical…

Optical sensing schemes that rely on two-photon interference provide a powerful platform for precision metrology, although they are inherently constrained by a trade-off between dynamic range and measurement precision. To overcome this…

Quantum imaging with undetected photons is a recently introduced technique that goes significantly beyond what was previously possible. In this technique, images are formed without detecting the light that interacted with the object that is…

In this work quantum metrology techniques are applied to the imaging of objects with a non-uniform refractive spatial profile. A sensible improvement on the classical accuracy is shown to be found when the "Twin Beam State" (TWB) is used.…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-21 Giuseppe Ortolano , Ivano Ruo Berchera , Enrico Predazzi

A major obstacle to attain the fundamental precision limit of the phase estimation in an interferometry is the identification and implementation of the optimal measurement. Here we demonstrate that this can be accomplished by the use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Wei Zhong , Yixiao Huang , Xiaoguang Wang , Shi-Liang Zhu

The classically defined minimum uncertainty of the optical phase is known as the standard quantum limit or shot-noise limit (SNL) originating in the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. Based on SNL, the phase sensitivity is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Byoung S. Ham

We present a space and time resolved interferometric plasma diagnostic for use on plasmas where neutral-bound electron contribution to the refractive index cannot be neglected. By recording simultaneously the plasma optical index at 532 and…

Compact interferometers, called phasemeters, make it possible to operate over a large range while ensuring a high resolution. Such performance is required for the stabilization of large instruments dedicated to experimental physics such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-03 Jennifer Watchi , Sam Cooper , Binlei Ding , Conor M. Mow-Lowry , Christophe Collette

Quantum resources can enhance the sensitivity of a device beyond the classical shot noise limit and, as a result, revolutionize the field of metrology through the development of quantum-enhanced sensors. In particular, plasmonic sensors,…

Phase measurement constitutes a key task in many fields of science, both in the classical and quantum regime. The higher precision of such measurement offers significant advances, and can also be utilised to achieve finer estimates for…

Interferometry with quantum light is known to provide enhanced precision for estimating a single phase. However, depending on the parameters involved, the quantum limit for the simultaneous estimation of multiple parameters may not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-07 Philip J. D. Crowley , Animesh Datta , Marco Barbieri , Ian A. Walmsley

We study a Mach-Zehnder interferometer fed by a coherent state in one input port and vacuum in the other. We explore a Bayesian phase estimation strategy to demonstrate that it is possible to achieve the standard quantum limit independently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Pezze , A. Smerzi , G. Khoury , J. F. Hodelin , D. Bouwmeester