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Extracting as much information as possible about an object when probing with a limited number of photons is an important goal with applications from biology and security to metrology. Imaging with a few photons is a challenging task as the…

For practical quantum communications, the efficiency of the entire system (source, quantum channel and detectors) must be taken into account. In many urban environments, the quantum channel in the form of telecommunication optical fiber…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-12 Rui Wang , Anindya Banerji , Alexander Ling

By using a systematic optimization approach we determine quantum states of light with definite photon number leading to the best possible precision in optical two mode interferometry. Our treatment takes into account the experimentally…

Entangled photons have the remarkable ability to be more sensitive to signal and less sensitive to noise than classical light. Joint photons can sample an object collectively, resulting in faster phase accumulation and higher spatial…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-04 Chien-Hung Lu , Matthew Reichert , Xiaohang Sun , Jason W. Fleischer

Quantum-correlated interferometer is a newly emerging tool in quantum technology that offers classical-limit-breaking phase sensitivity. But to date, there exists a configurational bottleneck for its practicability due to the low…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Wei Du , Shuhe Wu , Dong Zhang , Jun Chen , Yiquan Yang , Peiyu Yang , Jinxian Guo , Guzhi Bao , Weiping Zhang

Quantum metrology overcomes standard precision limits by exploiting collective quantum superpositions of physical systems used for sensing, with the prominent example of non-classical multiphoton states improving interferometric techniques.…

Entanglement is a key resource in quantum technologies, enhancing precision and resolution in imaging and sensing by leveraging the cross-correlation of photon pairs. This correlation enables precise time synchronization of photons reaching…

Quantum interferometry based on induced-coherence phenomena has demonstrated the possibility of undetected-photon measurements. Perturbation in the optical path of probe photons can be detected by interference signals generated by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Eun Mi Kim , Sun Kyung Lee , Sang Min Lee , Myeong Soo Kang , Hee Su Park

A method for performing nonlocal interferometry using phase-entangled macroscopic coherent states is described. The required entanglement can be generated using weak nonlinearities while Bell's inequality can be violated using single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 B. T. Kirby , J. D. Franson

Interferometers provide a highly sensitive means to investigate and exploit the coherence properties of light in metrology applications. However, interferometers come in various forms and exploit different properties of the optical states…

Quantum networking protocols, including quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping, use linear-optical Bell state measurements for heralding the distribution and transfer of quantum information. However, a linear-optical Bell state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Joshua Akin , Yunlei Zhao , Paul G. Kwiat , Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt , Kejie Fang

Quantum correlation, such as entanglement and squeezing have shown to improve phase estimation in interferometric setups on one side, and non-interferometric imaging scheme of amplitude object on the other. In the last case, quantum…

Quantum entanglement between paired photons is the foundation of optical quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum networks. Traditionally, quantum information science has focused on the particle nature of photons at the microscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Byoung S. Ham

Sub-picosecond coincidence timing from nonlocal intensity interference of entangled photons allows quantum interferometry for plasmas. Using a warm plasma dispersion relation, we correlate phase measurement sensitivity with different plasma…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-08 Zhehui Wang , Yanhua Shih

We propose a nonlinear imaging scheme with undetected photons that overcomes the diffraction limit by transferring near-field information at one wavelength to far-field information of a correlated photon with a different wavelength…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Elkin A. Santos , Thomas Pertsch , Frank Setzpfandt , Sina Saravi

We propose a high-precision phase estimation scheme in a hybrid interferometer by synergistically combining a Kerr nonlinear phase shifter and multi-photon subtraction operations. Using a coherent state and a vacuum state as input…

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White-light interferometry is one of today's most precise tools for determining optical material properties. Achievable precision and accuracy are typically limited by systematic errors due to a high number of interdependent data fitting…

Photon loss is the fundamental issue towards the development of quantum communication. We present a proposal to mitigate photon loss even at large distances and hence to create a global-scale quantum communication architecture. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Sumit Goswami , Sayandip Dhara

Photons for quantum technologies have been identified early on as a very good candidate for carrying quantum information encoded onto them, either by polarization encoding, time encoding or spatial encoding. Quantum cryptography, quantum…

Entanglement-assisted telescopy protocols have been proposed as a means to extend the baseline of optical interferometric telescopes. However, the optimal entangled resource and a clear optimality criterion have remained unclear. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Yujie Zhang , Thomas Jennewein