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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…

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Quantum metrology employs quantum resources to enhance the measurement sensitivity beyond that can be achieved classically. While multi-photon entangled NOON states can in principle beat the shot-noise limit and reach the Heisenberg limit,…

Quantum entanglement and squeezing have significantly improved phase estimation and imaging in interferometric settings beyond the classical limits. However, for a wide class of non-interferometric phase imaging/retrieval methods vastly…

Coherent interactions between electromagnetic and matter waves lie at the heart of quantum science and technology. However, the diffraction nature of light has limited the scalability of many atom-light based quantum systems. Here, we use…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 Mingjie Xin , Wui Seng Leong , Zilong Chen , Shau-Yu Lan

Information exchange between two distant parties, where information is shared without physically transporting it, is a crucial resource in future quantum networks. Doing so with high-dimensional states offers the promise of higher…

Measuring the dispersion of photonic devices with small dispersion-length products is challenging due to the phase-sensitive, and alignment-intensive nature of conventional methods. In this letter, we demonstrate a quantum technique to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Arash Riazi , Eric Y. Zhu , Changjia Chen , Alexey V. Gladyshev , Peter G. Kazansky , Li Qian

The fundamental quantum interferometry bound limits the sensitivity of an interferometer for a given total rate of photons and for a given decoherence rate inside the measurement device.We theoretically show that the recently reported…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-15 Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski , Konrad Banaszek , Roman Schnabel

Long-baseline interferometry will be possible using pre-shared entanglement between two telescope sites to mimic the standard phase-scanning interferometer, but without physical beam combination. We show that spatial-mode sorting at each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Isack Padilla , Aqil Sajjad , Babak N. Saif , Saikat Guha

We present an innovative optical imaging system for measuring parameters of a small particle such as a macromolecule or nanoparticle at the quantum limit of sensitivity. In comparison to the conventional confocal interferometric scattering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Fabian Müller , Emre Köse , Alfred J. Meixner , Erik Schäffer , Daniel Braun

Quantum channels in free-space, an essential prerequisite for fundamental tests of quantum mechanics and quantum technologies in open space, have so far been based on direct line-of-sight because the predominant approaches for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Shihan Sajeed , Thomas Jennewein

Multiphoton quantum interference underpins fundamental tests of quantum mechanics and quantum technologies. Consequently, the detrimental effect of photon distinguishability in multiphoton interference experiments can be catastrophic. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Simon Laibacher , Vincenzo Tamma

It has been shown that shared entanglement between two telescope sites can in principle be used to localize a point source by mimicking the standard phase-scanning interferometer, but without physically bringing the light from the distant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Isack Padilla , Aqil Sajjad , Babak N. Saif , Saikat Guha

Strong nonlinearity at the single photon level represents a crucial enabling tool for optical quantum technologies. Here we report on experimental implementation of a strong Kerr nonlinearity by measurement-induced quantum operations on…

Determining an unknown quantum state from an ensemble of identical systems is a fundamental, yet experimentally demanding, task in quantum science. Here we study the number of measurement bases needed to fully characterize an arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-11 Leonardo Banchi , W. Steven Kolthammer , M. S. Kim

Many protocols within quantum cryptography, communications, and computing require the ability to generate entangled states as well as spectral qudits. Nonlinear interferometry is a viable way to engineer these complex quantum states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Cody Charles Payne , Elaganuru Bashaiah , Markus Allgaier

The use of satellites to distribute entangled photon pairs (and single photons) provides a unique solution for long-distance quantum communication networks. This overcomes the principle limitations of Earth-bound technology, i.e. the narrow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Markus Aspelmeyer , Thomas Jennewein , Martin Pfennigbauer , Walter Leeb , Anton Zeilinger

We introduce a linear optical technique that can implement ideal quantum tele-amplification up to the $n^\mathrm{th}$ Fock state, where $n$ can be any positive integer. Here tele-amplification consists of both quantum teleportation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Joshua J. Guanzon , Matthew S. Winnel , Austin P. Lund , Timothy C. Ralph

While experimental measurements of photon correlations have become routine in laboratories, theoretical access to these quantities for the light generated in complex nanophotonic devices remains a major challenge. Current methods are…

Nonlinear interferometers that replace beamsplitters in Mach-Zehnder interferometers with nonlinear amplifiers for quantum-enhanced phase measurements have drawn increasing interest in recent years, but practical quantum sensors based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 R. C. Pooser , N. Savino , E. Batson , J. L. Beckey , J. Garcia , B. J. Lawrie

Multi-photon interference is at the heart of the recently proposed linear optical quantum computing scheme and plays an essential role in many protocols in quantum information. Indistinguishability is what leads to the effect of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 B. H. Liu , F. W. Sun , Y. X. Gong , Y. F. Huang , Z. Y. Ou , G. C. Guo