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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…

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Quantum metrology offers the potential to surpass its classical counterpart, pushing the boundaries of measurement precision toward the ultimate Heisenberg limit. This enhanced precision is normally attained by utilizing large squeezed…

Phase estimation plays a central role in communications, sensing, and information processing. Quantum correlated states, such as squeezed states, enable phase estimation beyond the shot-noise limit, and in principle approach the ultimate…

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Gaussian boson sampling exploits squeezed states to provide a highly efficient way to demonstrate quantum computational advantage. We perform experiments with 50 input single-mode squeezed states with high indistinguishability and squeezing…

Microwave squeezing represents the ultimate sensitivity frontier for superconducting qubit measurement. However, observation of enhancement has remained elusive, in part because integration with conventional dispersive readout pollutes the…

We consider the estimation of a Hamiltonian parameter of a set of highly photosensitive samples, which are damaged after a few photons $N_{\rm abs}$ are absorbed, for a total time $T$. The samples are modelled as a two mode photonic system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 M. Perarnau-Llobet , D. Malz , J. I. Cirac

Squeezing currently represents the leading strategy for quantum enhanced precision measurements of a single parameter in a variety of continuous- and discrete-variable settings and technological applications. However, many important…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 Manuel Gessner , Augusto Smerzi , Luca Pezzè

Engineering apparatus that harness quantum theory offers practical advantages over current technology. A fundamentally more powerful prospect is the long-standing prediction that such quantum technologies could out-perform any future…

Using continuous wave superposition of spatial modes, we demonstrate experimentally displacement measurement of a light beam below the standard quantum limit. Multimode squeezed light is obtained by mixing a vacuum squeezed beam and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Treps , U. Andersen , B. Buchler , P. K. Lam , A. Maitre , H. -A. Bachor , C. Fabre

Quantum enhanced sensing is a powerful technique in which nonclassical states are used to improve the sensitivity of a measurement. For enhanced mechanical displacement sensing, squeezed states of light have been shown to reduce the photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-05 Jeremy B. Clark , Florent Lecocq , Raymond W. Simmonds , José Aumentado , John D. Teufel

Squeezed states of light have received renewed attention due to their applicability to quantum-enhanced sensing. To take full advantage of their reduced noise properties to enhance atomic-based sensors, it is necessary to generate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-21 Saesun Kim , Alberto M. Marino

Quantum metrology employs quantum resources to achieve measurement precision beyond classical limits. This work investigates a Mach--Zehnder interferometer incorporating a Kerr nonlinear phase shifter, with photon-added two-mode squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Zekun Zhao , Qingqian Kang , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Xin Su , Liyun Hu

We discuss how two-photon absorption (TPA) of squeezed and coherent states of light can be detected in measurements of the transmitted light fields. Such measurements typically suffer from competing loss mechanisms such as experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Shahram Panahiyan , Carlos Sánchez Muñoz , Maria V. Chekhova , Frank Schlawin

We study the application of squeezed states in a quantum optical scheme for direct sampling of the phase space by photon counting. We prove that the detection setup with a squeezed coherent probe field is equivalent to the probing of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 Konrad Banaszek , Krzysztof Wodkiewicz

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

Quantum physics has brought enhanced capability in various sensing applications. Despite challenges from noise and loss in the radio-frequency (RF) domain, [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 150502 (2020)] demonstrates a route for enhanced RF-receiver…

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An experimentally feasible magnetometer based on a dual-coupling optomechanical system is proposed, where the radiation-pressure coupling transduces the magnetic signal to the optical phase, and the quadratic optomechanical interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Gui-Lei Zhu , Jing Liu , Ying Wu , Xin-You Lü

In a strongly pumped non-degenerate traveling-wave OPA, we produce two-color squeezed vacuum with up to millions of photons per pulse. Our approach to registering this macroscopic quantum state is direct detection of a large number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-03 Ivan N. Agafonov , Maria V. Chekhova , Gerd Leuchs

We investigate the ultimate precision achievable in Gaussian quantum metrology. We derive general analytical expressions for the quantum Fisher information matrix and for the measurement compatibility condition, ensuring asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Rosanna Nichols , Pietro Liuzzo-Scorpo , Paul A. Knott , Gerardo Adesso

The squeezed photons, as a quantum-correlated light with reduced noise, have emerged as a great resource for sensing the structures of matter. Here we study the transient absorption (TA) scheme using the squeezed photons whose spectral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Jiahao Joel Fan , Feihong Liu , Dangyuan Lei , Zhedong Zhang