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Wave-particle duality is certainly one of the most curious concepts of contemporary physics, which ascribes mutually exclusive behaviors to quantum systems that cannot be observed simultaneously. In the context of two-path interferometers,…

Wave-particle duality, a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics, encapsulates the complementary relationship between the wave and particle behaviors of quantum systems. In this paper, we treat quantum coherence and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Zhiping Liu , Chengkai Zhu , Hua-Lei Yin , Xin Wang

The wave-particle duality, as one of the expressions of Bohr complementarity, is usually quantified by path predictability and the visibility of interference fringes. With the development of quantum resource theory, the quantitative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Y. T. Tsui , Sunho Kim

For a particle travelling through an interferometer, the trade-off between the available which-way information and the interference visibility provides a lucid manifestation of the quantum mechanical wave-particle duality. Here we analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-04 Konrad Banaszek , Pawel Horodecki , Michal Karpinski , Czeslaw Radzewicz

We predict that if internal and momentum states of an interfering object are correlated (entangled), then by measuring its internal state we may infer both path (corpuscular) and phase (wavelike) information with much higher precision than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michal Kolar , Tomas Opatrny , Nir Bar-Gill , Gershon Kurizki

Entanglement often increases quantum measurement schemes' sensitivity. However, we find that in precision measurements with zero-mean Gaussian states, such as squeezed states, entanglement between different paths degrades measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 Benjamin Lou , Hudson A. Loughlin , Nergis Mavalvala

If a quantum system is subject to noise, it is possible to perform quantum error correction reversing the action of the noise if and only if no information about the system's quantum state leaks to the environment. In this article, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-06 Patrick Hayden , Andreas Winter

We propose quantum circuits to test interferometric complementarity using symmetric two-way interferometers coupled to a which-path detector. First, we consider the two-qubit setup in which the controlled transfer of path information to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Pedro M. Q. Cruz , J. Fernández-Rossier

A novel method was recently proposed and experimentally realized for characterizing a quantum state by directly measuring its complex probability amplitudes in a particular basis using so-called weak values. Recently Vallone and Dequal…

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

According to Bohr's complementarity principle, a particle possesses wave-like properties only when the different paths the particle may take are indistinguishable. In a canonical example of a two-path interferometer with a which-path…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-17 Dong-In Chang , Gyong Luck Khym , Kicheon Kang , Yunchul Chung , Hu-Jong Lee , Minky Seo , Moty Heiblum , Diana Mahalu , Vladimir Umansky

Quantum metrology protocols are typically designed around the assumption that we have an abundance of measurement data, but recent practical applications are increasingly driving interest in cases with very limited data. In this regime the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-18 Jesús Rubio , Jacob Dunningham

Quantum metrology utilizes entanglement for improving the sensitivity of measurements. Up to now the focus has been on the measurement of just one out of two non-commuting observables. Here we demonstrate a laser interferometer that…

Wave-particle duality and entanglement are two fundamental characteristics of quantum mechanics. All previous works on experimental investigations in wave{particle properties of single photons (or single particles in general) show that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Kai Wang , Daniel R. Terno , Caslav Brukner , Shining Zhu , Xiao-Song Ma

We present measurement schemes that do not rely on photon-number resolving detectors, but that are nevertheless optimal for estimating a differential phase shift in interferometry with either an entangled coherent state or a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Z. M. McIntyre , W. A. Coish

We investigate the ability of a quantum measurement device to discriminate two states or, generically, two hypothesis. In full generality, the measurement can be performed a number $n$ of times, and arbitrary pre-processing of the states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Christoph Hirche , Masahito Hayashi , Emilio Bagan , John Calsamiglia

Quantum state discrimination is a central problem in quantum measurement theory, with applications spanning from quantum communication to computation. Typical measurement paradigms for state discrimination involve a minimum probability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 M. T. DiMario , F. E. Becerra

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…

Determination of the path taken by a quantum particle leads to a suppression of interference and to a classical behavior. We employ here a quantum 'which path' detector to perform accurate path determination in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 I. Neder , M. Heiblum , D. Mahalu , V. Umansky

We investigate the utility of parity detection to achieve Heisenberg-limited phase estimation for optical interferometry. We consider the parity detection with several input states that have been shown to exhibit sub shot-noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-25 Aravind Chiruvelli , Hwang Lee