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To improve the phase sensitivity, multi-photon subtraction schemes within the SU(1,1) interferometer are proposed. The input states are the coherent state and the vacuum state, and the detection method is homodyne detection. The effects of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Q. Q. Kang , Z. K. Zhao , Y. K. Xu , T. Zhao , C. J. Liu , L. Y. Hu

In the field of quantum precision measurement, enhancing phase sensitivity is crucial for various applications, including quantum metrology and quantum sensing technologies. We theoretically investigate the improvement in phase sensitivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Tao Jiang , Zekun Zhao , Qingqian Kang , Teng Zhao , Nanrun Zhou , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

Compared to passive interferometers, SU(1,1) interferometers exhibit superior phase sensitivity due to the incorporation of nonlinear elements that enhance their ability to detect phase shifts. However, the precision of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Qingqian Kang , Zekun Zhao , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

SU(1,1) interferometers, based on the usage of nonlinear elements, are superior to passive interferometers in phase sensitivity. However, the SU(1,1) interferometer cannot make full use of photons carrying phase information as the second…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Jian-Dong Zhang , Chenglong You , Chuang Li , Shuai Wang

We propose a theoretical scheme to improve the precision of phase measurement using intensity detection by implementing delocalized photon subtraction operation (D-PSO) inside the SU(1,1) interferometer, with the coherent state and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Zhihao Li , Qingqian Kang , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu , Chengzhi Deng

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

We propose a theoretical scheme to enhance the phase sensitivity by introducing a Kerr nonlinear phase shift into the traditional SU(1,1) interferometer with a coherent state input and homodyne detection. We investigate the realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Shoukang Chang , Wei Ye , Huan Zhang , Liyun Hu , Jiehui Huang , Sanqiu Liu

Homodyne detection is often used for interferometers based on nonlinear optical gain media. For the configuration of a seeded, 'truncated SU(1,1)' interferometer Anderson et al. (Phys. Rev. A 95, 063843 (2017)) showed how to optimize the…

We analyse a nonlinear interferometer, also known as an SU(1,1) interferometer, in the presence of internal losses and inefficient detectors. To overcome these limitations, we consider the effect of seeding one of the interferometer input…

Based on the conventional Mach-Zehnder interferometer, we propose a metrological scheme to improve phase sensitivity. In this scheme, we use a coherent state and a squeezed vacuum state as input states, employ multi-photon-subtraction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Qisi Zhou , Qinqian Kang , Tao Jiang , Zekun Zhao , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

We propose a theoretical scheme to improve the resolution and precision of phase measurement with parity detection in the Mach-Zehnder interferometer by using a nonclassical input state which is generated by applying a number-conserving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Huan Zhang , Wei Ye , Chaoping Wei , Cunjin Liu , Zeyang Liao , Liyun Hu

By performing two local displacement operations (LDOs) inside an SU(1,1) interferometer, called as the displacement-assisted SU(1,1) [DSU(1,1)], both the phase sensitivity based on homodyne detection and quantum Fisher information (QFI)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 W. Ye , S. K. Chang , S. Y. Gao , H. Zhang , Y. Xia , X. Rao

In an unseeded SU(1,1) interferometer composed of two cascaded degenerate parametric amplifiers, with direct detection at the output, we demonstrate a phase sensitivity overcoming the shot noise limit by 2.3 dB. The interferometer is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Mathieu Manceau , Gerd Leuchs , Farid Khalili , Maria Chekhova

We propose a novel method for enhancing phase estimation in the displacement-assisted SU(1,1) (DSU(1,1)) interferometer by incorporating the photon recycling technique, evaluated under single-intensity detection (SID) and homodyne detection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Taj Kumar , Aviral Kumar Pandey , Anand Kumar , Devendra Kumar Mishra

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 Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Qisi Zhou , Tao Jiang , Qingqian Kang , Teng Zhao , Xin Su , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

The SU(1,1) interferometer can be thought of as a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with its linear beamsplitters replaced with parametric nonlinear optical processes. We consider the cases of bright and vacuum-seeded SU(1,1) interferometers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 B. E. Anderson , B. L. Schmittberger , P. Gupta , K. M. Jones , P. D. Lett

We provide a general theoretical derivation of the phase sensitivity achieved by SU(1,1) interferometers under homodyne detection. The general expressions obtained accommodate arbitrary input states and include internal and external losses.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Sonu Jana , Dhruv Baheti , Paul Grossiord , Fabien Bretenaker , Nadia Belabas , Syamsundar De

Photon addition operations applied to squeezed states have been shown to significantly enhance phase sensitivity. In this study, we extend this approach by applying photon addition not only to coherent states but also within a Mach--Zehnder…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Qisi Zhou , Qingqian Kang , Teng Zhao , Xin Su , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

We theoretically study the effects of loss on the phase sensitivity of an SU(1,1) interferometer with parity detection with various input states. We show that although the sensitivity of phase estimation decreases in the presence of loss,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Dong Li , Chun-hua Yuan , Yao Yao , Wei Jiang , Mo Li , Weiping Zhang

We theoretically study the quantum Fisher information (QFI) of the SU(1,1) interferometer with phase shifts in two arms taking account of realistic noise effects. A generalized phase transform including the phase diffusion effect is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Xiu-Ling Hu , Dong Li , L. Q. Chen , Keye Zhang , Weiping Zhang , Chun-Hua Yuan
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