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We study a system consisting of a superconducting flux qubit strongly coupled to a microwave cavity. The fundamental cavity mode is externally driven and the response is investigated in the weak nonlinear regime. We find that near the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 Eyal Buks , Chunqing Deng , Jean-Luc F. X. Orgazzi , Martin Otto , Adrian Lupascu

It is well-known that the precision of a phase measurement with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer employing strong (macroscopic) classic light can be greatly enhanced with the addition of a weak (microscopic) light field in a non-classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-06 Wenchao Ge , Kurt Jacobs , M. Suhail Zubairy

We present a novel application of a qubit-coupled phonon detector to search for new physics, e.g., ultralight dark matter (DM) and high-frequency gravitational waves. The detector, motivated by recent advances in quantum acoustics, is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-24 Ryan Linehan , Tanner Trickle , Christopher R. Conner , Sohitri Ghosh , Tongyan Lin , Mukul Sholapurkar , Andrew N. Cleland

Heisenberg-limited and weak measurements are the two intriguing notions, used in recent times for enhancing the sensitivity of measurements in quantum metrology. Using a quantum cat state, endowed with sub-Planck structure, we connect these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-22 A. K. Pan , P. K. Panigrahi

Photon detectors are an elementary tool to measure electromagnetic waves at the quantum limit and are heavily demanded in the emerging quantum technologies such as communication, sensing, and computing. Of particular interest is a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 S. Kono , K. Koshino , Y. Tabuchi , A. Noguchi , Y. Nakamura

Quantum illumination is a quantum-optical sensing technique in which an entangled source is exploited to improve the detection of a low-reflectivity object that is immersed in a bright thermal background. Entangled sources between microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Biao Xiong , Xun Li , Xiao-Yu Wang , Ling Zhou

Recent progress in building large-scale quantum devices for exploring quantum computing and simulation paradigms has relied upon effective tools for achieving and maintaining good experimental parameters, i.e. tuning up devices. In many…

The realization of a high-efficiency microwave single photon detector is a long-standing problem in the field of microwave quantum optics. Here we propose a quantum non-demolition, high-efficiency photon detector that can readily be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Baptiste Royer , Arne L. Grimsmo , Alexandre Choquette-Poitevin , Alexandre Blais

We propose a quantum error correction-like noise mitigation protocol for enhancing the sensitivity of wave-like dark matter searches with quantum sensors. Our protocol uses multiple sensors to mitigate the noise affecting each sensor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-06 Hajime Fukuda , Takeo Moroi , Thanaporn Sichanugrist

From its very beginning quantum theory has been revealing extraordinary and counter-intuitive phenomena, such as wave-particle duality, Schr\"odinger cats and quantum non-locality. In the study of quantum measurement, a process involving…

Conventional axion dark matter search experiments employ cylindrical microwave cavities immersed in a solenoidal magnetic field. Exploring higher frequency regions requires smaller size cavities as the TM010 resonant frequencies scale…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Junu Jeong , SungWoo Youn , Saebyeok Ahn , Chanshin Kang , Yannis K. Semertzids

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,…

We describe the creation of nonclassical states of microwave radiation via ideal dichotomic single photon detection, i.e., a detector that only indicates presence or absence of photons. Ideally, such a detector has a back action in the form…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-11 Luke C. G. Govia , Emily J. Pritchett , Frank K. Wilhelm

In ref [Phys. Rev. A 106, 013720], the scheme of quantum non-demolition measurement of optical quanta that uses a resonantly enhanced Kerr nonlinearity in optical microresonators was analyzed theoretically. It was shown that using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Stepan Balybin , Dariya Salykina , Farid Ya. Khalili

Polarized light microscopy using path-entangled $N$-photon states (i.e., the N00N states) has been demonstrated to surpass the shot-noise limit at very low light illumination. However, the microscopy images suffer from divergence of phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 G. R. Jin , W. Yang , C. P. Sun

In this study, we propose an investigation into dark photon dark matter (DPDM) within the infrared frequency band, utilizing highly sensitive infrared light detectors commonly integrated into space telescopes, such as the James Webb Space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-11 Haipeng An , Shuailiang Ge , Jia Liu , Zhiyao Lu

An array of $N$ closely spaced dipole coupled quantum emitters exhibits super- and subradiance with characteristic tailorable spatial radiation patterns. Optimizing their geometry and distance with respect to the spatial profile of a near…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-08 David Plankensteiner , Christian Sommer , Helmut Ritsch , Claudiu Genes

We present a novel approach to detect millicharged dark matter (mDM) by using a high-sensitivity magnetometer coupled with the resonant and broadband readout circuits. In the external magnetic field, the interaction between mDM and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-15 Yuanlin Gong , Hongliang Tian , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

The use of special quantum states to achieve sensitivities below the limits established by classically behaving states has enjoyed immense success since its inception. In bosonic interferometers, squeezed states, number states and cat…

Quantum-dense metrology (QDM) constitutes a special case of quantum metrology in which two orthogonal phase space projections of a signal are simultaneously sensed beyond the shot noise limit. Previously it was shown that the additional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Melanie Ast , Sebastian Steinlechner , Roman Schnabel