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Quantum effects like entanglement and coherent amplification can be used to drastically enhance the accuracy of quantum parameter estimation beyond classical limits. However, challenges such as decoherence and time-dependent errors hinder…

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Number state filtered coherent states are a class of nonclassical states obtained by removing one or more number states from a coherent state. Phase sensitivity of an interferometer is enhanced if these nonclassical states are used as input…

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We explore the advantages offered by twin light beams produced in parametric down-conversion for precision measurement. The symmetry of these bipartite quantum states, even under losses, suggests that monitoring correlations between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 Hugo Cable , Gabriel A. Durkin

We investigate an optimal distance of two components in an entangled coherent state for quantum phase estimation in lossy interferometry. The optimal distance is obtained by an economical point, representing the quantum Fisher information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Su-Yong Lee , Yong Sup Ihn , Zaeill Kim

When standard light sources are employed, the precision of the phase determination is limited by the shot noise. Quantum entanglement provides means to exceed this limit with the celebrated example of N00N states that saturate the ultimate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-01 M. Kacprowicz , R. Demkowicz-Dobrzanski , W. Wasilewski , K. Banaszek , I. A. Walmsley

In this paper, we investigate the phase sensitivities in two-path optical interferometry with asymmetric beam splitters. Here, we present the optimal conditions for the transmission ratio and the phase of the beam splitter to gain the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Wei Zhong , Fan Wang , Lan Zhou , Peng Xu , Yu-Bo Sheng

We propose a channel-loss-independent quantum-enhanced interferometer. In our scheme, the Fisher information for phase difference of weak light from a remote star remains constant under arbitrarily large channel loss, and the angular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Yi-Xin Shen , Zhou-Kai Cao , Jian Leng , Xiang-Bin Wang

Squeezed light enables quantum-enhanced phase estimation, with crucial applications in both fundamental physics and emerging technologies. To fully exploit the advantage provided by this approach, estimation protocols must remain optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Giorgio Minati , Enrico Urbani , Nicolò Spagnolo , Valeria Cimini , Fabio Sciarrino

We propose a method to generate the multi-mode entangled catalysis squeezed vacuum states (MECSVS) by embedding the cross-Kerr nonlinear medium into the Mach-Zehnder interferometer. This method realizes the exchange of quantum states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-28 Huan Zhang , Wei Ye , Shoukang Chang , Ying Xia , Liyun Hu , Zeyang Liao

We consider Mach-Zehnder and Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometers with nonclassical states of light as input, and study the effect that dispersion inside the interferometer has on the sensitivity of phase measurements. We study in detail a number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. S. Simon , A. V. Sergienko , T. B. Bahder

Quantum State Tomography (QST) has been the traditional method for characterization of an unknown state. Recently, many direct measurement methods have been implemented to reconstruct the state in a resource efficient way. In this letter,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Surya Narayan Sahoo , Sanchari Chakraborti , Arun K. Pati , Urbasi Sinha

Non-classical states of light find applications in enhancing the performance of optical interferometric experiments, with notable example of gravitational wave-detectors. Still, the presence of decoherence hinders significantly the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-17 R. Demkowicz-Dobrzanski , M. Jarzyna , J. Kolodynski

We show that quantification of the performance of quantum-enhanced measurement schemes based on the concept of quantum Fisher information yields asymptotically equivalent results as the rigorous Bayesian approach, provided generic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-13 Marcin Jarzyna , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

After a derivation of the quantum Bayes theorem, and a discussion of the reconstruction of the unknown state of identical spin systems by repeated measurements, the main part of this paper treats the problem of determining the unknown phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Filippo Neri

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

Within the quantum phase representation we derive Heisenberg limits, in closed form, for N00N states and two other classes of states that can perform better in terms of local performance metrics relevant for multiply-peaked distributions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Scott Roger Shepard , Frederick Ira Moxley , Jonathan P. Dowling

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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We investigate the estimation of dephasing-induced decoherence in continuous-variable quantum systems using non-Gaussian probe states. By purifying the open system, we identify optimal probes, specifically squeezed cat and symmetric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Arman , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

We theoretically compare the quantum Fisher information (QFI) for three configurations of absorption spectroscopy with undetected idler photons: an SU(1,1) interferometer with inter-source idler loss, an induced-coherence (IC) setup in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Martin Houde , Franz Roeder , Christine Silberhorn , Benjamin Brecht , Nicolás Quesada

We derive a general expression of the quantum Fisher information for a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, with the port inputs of an \emph{arbitrary} pure state and a squeezed thermal state. We find that the standard quantum limit can be beaten,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Qing-Shou Tan , Jie-Qiao Liao , Xiaoguang Wang , Franco Nori