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We develop an iterative, adaptive frequency sensing protocol based on Ramsey interferometry of a two-level system. Our scheme allows one to estimate unknown frequencies with a high precision from short, finite signals. It avoids several…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Avishek Chowdhury , Anh Tuan Le , Eva M. Weig , Hugo Ribeiro

An approach for compensating the influence of the interrogator noises on the readings of interferometric sensors, interrogated by means of spectral interferometry with wavelength tuning is proposed. Both theoretical analysis and a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-30 Nikolai Ushakov , Alexandr Markvart , Leonid Liokumovich

High contrast matter-wave interferometry is essential in various fundamental quantum mechanical experiments as well as for technical applications. Thereby, contrast and sensitivity are typically reduced by decoherence and dephasing effects.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Andreas Günther , Alexander Rembold , Georg Schütz , Alexander Stibor

Interferometry techniques are essential for extracting phase information from optical systems, enabling precise measurements of dispersion and highly sensitive detection of perturbations. While phase sensing offers enhanced sensitivity…

I introduce Virtual Parameter Sharpening (VPS), an inference-time technique that augments frozen transformer linear layers with dynamic, activation-conditioned low-rank perturbations. Unlike parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Saba Kublashvili

Imaging the direct light signal from a faint exoplanet against the overwhelming glare of its host star presents one of the fundamental challenges to modern astronomical instrumentation. Achieving sufficient signal-to-noise for detection by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 S. Lacour , P. Tuthill , J. D. Monnier , T. Kotani , L. Gauchet , P. Labeye

We derive the asymptotic maximum-likelihood phase estimation uncertainty for any interferometric protocol where the positions of the probe particles are measured to infer the phase, but where correlations between the particles are not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jan Chwedenczuk , Philipp Hyllus , Francesco Piazza , Augusto Smerzi

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission aims to detect gravitational waves by interferometrically measuring the change of separation between free-falling test masses (TMs). LISA's interferometers must deliver pm/rtHz…

Among the known resources of quantum metrology, one of the most practical and efficient is squeezing. Squeezed states of atoms and light improve the sensing of the phase, magnetic field, polarization, mechanical displacement. They promise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Gaetano Frascella , Sascha Agne , Farid Ya. Khalili , Maria V. Chekhova

Currently planned and constructed terrestrial detectors for gravitational waves and dark matter based on differential light-pulse atom interferometry are designed around three primary strategies to enhance their sensitivity: (i)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Patrik Schach , Enno Giese

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…

We consider weak values in the Feynman propagator framework, to gain a broader understanding of their interpretation in terms of path integrals. In particular, we examine the phenomenon of seemingly discontinuous paths that particles take…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Shushmi Chowdhury , Jörg B. Götte

Infrared optical measurement has a wide range of applications in industry and science, but infrared light detectors suffer from high costs and inferior performance than visible light detectors. Four-wave mixing (FWM) process allows…

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

This paper is the third part of a trilogy dealing with the principles, performance and limitations of what I named "Telescope-Interferometers" (TIs). The basic idea consists in transforming one telescope into a Wavefront Error (WFE) sensing…

Optics · Physics 2011-05-17 Francois Henault

We present a weak measurement protocol that permits a sensitive estimation of angular rotations based on the concept of weak-value amplification. The shift in the state of a pointer, in both angular position and the conjugate orbital…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 Omar S. Magana-Loaiza , Mohammad Mirhosseini , Brandon Rodenburg , Robert W. Boyd

Precise measurements in optical and atomic systems often rely on differential interferometry. This method allows to handle large and correlated phase noise contributions -- such as environmental vibrations, thermal fluctuations, or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Luca Pezzè , Andrea Santoni , Chiara Mazzinghi , Marco Fattori , Augusto Smerzi

The viability of quantum communication schemes rely on sending quantum states of light over long distances. However, transmission loss can degrade the signal strength, adding noise. Heralded noiseless amplification of a quantum signal can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-20 Joseph Ho , Allen Boston , Matthew Palsson , Geoff Pryde

Time delay interferometry (TDI) is a post-processing technique used in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to reduce laser frequency noise by building an equal-arm interferometer via combining time-shifted raw phase measurements.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Olaf Hartwig , Martina Muratore

An improvement of the scheme by Brunner and Simon [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 010405 (2010)] is proposed in order to show that quantum weak measurements can provide a method to detect ultrasmall longitudinal phase shifts, even with white light.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-20 Chuan-Feng Li , Xiao-Ye Xu , Jian-Shun Tang , Jin-Shi Xu , Guang-Can Guo
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