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Quantum sensing has drawn considerable attention as a means to overcome the fundamental limitations in classical sensing. In practice, however, quantum sensing has been strongly constrained by the photon loss, the achievable photon number N…

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Quantum sensing using Rydberg atoms offers unprecedented opportunities for next-generation radar systems, transcending classical limitations in miniaturization and spectral agility. Implementing this paradigm for radar sensing, this work…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Minze Chen , Tianqi Mao , Zhiao Zhu , Haonan Feng , Ge Gao , Zhonghuai Wu , Wei Xiao , Zhongxiang Li , Dezhi Zheng

Ultrafast lasers have become one of the most powerful tools in coherent nonlinear optical spectroscopy. Short pulses enable direct observation of fast molecular dynamics, whereas broad spectral bandwidth offers ways of controlling nonlinear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 X. G. Xu , S. O. Konorov , J. W. Hepburn , V. Milner

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are considered sensors for detecting magnetic fields. Pulsed optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) is typically used to detect AC magnetic fields; however, this technique can only be…

Mass sensing connects the mass variation to a frequency shift of a mechanical oscillator, whose limitation is determined by its mechanical frequency resolution. Here we propose a method to enlarge a minute mechanical frequency shift, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Shang-Wu Bin , Xin-You Lü , Tai-Shuang Yin , Gui-Lei Zhu , Qian Bin , Ying Wu

Ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers are used as sensors to detect NMR signals from micron-sized samples at room temperature. In this scenario, the regime of large magnetic fields is especially interesting as it leads to a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 C. Munuera-Javaloy , A. Tobalina , J. Casanova

We demonstrate a new method for measuring radio frequency (RF) electric fields based on quantum interference in an atom. Using a bright resonance prepared within an electromagnetically induced transparency window we are able to achieve a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-05-22 J. Sedlacek , A. Schwettmann , H. Kübler , R. Löw , T. Pfau , J. P. Shaffer

Quantum sensors promise revolutionary advances in medical imaging, energy production, mass detection, geodesy, foundational physics research, and a host of other fields. In many sensors, the signal takes the form of a changing qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 M. O. Hecht , Kumar Saurav , Evangelos Vlachos , Daniel A. Lidar , Eli M. Levenson-Falk

We present a novel method for fabricating highly customizable three-dimensional structures hosting quantum sensors based on Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) centers using two-photon polymerization. This approach overcomes challenges associated with…

The detrimental impact of noise on sensing performance in quantum metrology has been widely recognized by researchers in the field. However, there are no explicit fundamental laws of physics stating that noise invariably weakens quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Jia-Xin Peng , Baiqiang Zhu , Weiping Zhang , Keye Zhang

We consider the certification of temporal quantum correlations using the pseudo-density matrix (PDM), an extension of the density matrix to the time domain, where negative eigenvalues are key indicators of temporal correlations.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Hongfeng Liu , Zhenhuan Liu , Shu Chen , Xinfang Nie , Xiangjing Liu , Dawei Lu

Quantum incompatibility, referred as the phenomenon that some quantum measurements cannot be performed simultaneously, is necessary for various quantum information processing tasks, such as nonlocality and steering. When these applications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Xiaolin Zhang , Rui Qu , Zehong Chang , Yunlong Wang , Zhenyu Guo , Min An , Hong Gao , Fuli Li , Pei Zhang

Harnessing quantum correlations can enable sensing beyond the classical limits of precision, with the realization of such sensors poised for transformative impacts across science and engineering. Real devices, however, face the accumulated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Benjamin MacLellan , Piotr Roztocki , Stefanie Czischek , Roger G. Melko

Quantum entanglement has the potential to revolutionize the entire field of interferometric sensing by providing many orders of magnitude improvement in interferometer sensitivity. The quantum-entangled particle interferometer approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kishore T. Kapale , Leo D. Didomenico , Hwang Lee , Pieter Kok , Jonathan P. Dowling

Quantum probes can measure time-varying fields with high sensitivity and spatial resolution, enabling the study of biological, material, and physical phenomena at the nanometer scale. In particular, nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 Alexandre Cooper , Easwar Magesan , Honam Yum , Paola Cappellaro

State-of-the-art microscopes use intense lasers that can severely disturb biological processes, function and viability. This introduces hard limits on performance that only quantum photon correlations can overcome. Here we demonstrate this…

Atom-interferometric quantum sensors could revolutionize navigation, civil engineering, and Earth observation. However, operation in real-world environments is challenging due to external interference, platform noise, and constraints on…

We present a protocol to achieve double quantum magnetometry at large static magnetic fields. This is a regime where sensitive sample parameters, such as the chemical shift, get enhanced facilitating their characterization. In particular,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 C. Munuera-Javaloy , I. Arrazola , E. Solano , J. Casanova

Quantum sensors have recently achieved to detect the magnetic moment of few or single nuclear spins and measure their magnetic resonance (NMR) signal. However, the spectral resolution, a key feature of NMR, has been limited by relaxation of…

Frequency estimation from measurements corrupted by noise is a fundamental challenge across numerous engineering and scientific fields. Among the pivotal factors shaping the resolution capacity of any frequency estimation technique are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Sampath Kumar Dondapati , Omkar Nitsure , Satish Mulleti