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Most quantum metrology protocols harness highly entangled probe states and globally accessible measurements to surpass the standard quantum limit. However, it is challenging to satisfy these requirements in realistic many-body sensors. We…

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We theoretically study the effect of quantum statistics of the light field on the quantum enhancement of parameter estimation based on cat state input the SU(1,1) interferometer. The phase sensitivity is dependent on the relative phase…

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A scheme is proposed to prepare squeezed states and Schr\"{o}dinger cat-like states of the collective spin degrees of freedom associated with a pair of ground states in an atomic ensemble. The scheme uses an effective Jaynes-Cummings…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Tomáš Opatrný , Klaus Mølmer

We investigate quantum phase estimation in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer using q-deformed photon states, including q-coherent and q-cat states, which model realistic deviations from ideal light sources. By deriving closed-form photon count…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Duttatreya , Sanjib Dey

Rydberg atom arrays are powerful platforms for studying quantum many-body systems. We consider the Rydberg-Ising Hamiltonian on periodic chains and numerically study ensembles of states generated by random global pulse sequences subject to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Edison S. Carrera , Grégoire Misguich

We show a general relationship between a superposition of macroscopically distinct states and sensitivity in quantum metrology. Generalized cat states are defined by using an index which extracts the coherence between macroscopically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Mamiko Tatsuta , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Akira Shimizu

We discuss efficient methods to optimize the metrological performance over local Hamiltonians in a bipartite quantum system. For a given quantum state, our methods find the best local Hamiltonian for which the state outperforms separable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Árpád Lukács , Róbert Trényi , Tamás Vértesi , Géza Tóth

Continuous-variable quantum information processing through quantum optics offers a promising platform for building the next generation of scalable fault-tolerant information processors. To achieve quantum computational advantages and fault…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Rajveer Nehra , Miller Eaton , Olivier Pfister , Alireza Marandi

Recent development in quantum information sciences and technologies, especially building programmable quantum computers, provide us new opportunities to study fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics. We propose qubit models to emulate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Meng-Jun Hu , Yanbei Chen , Yiqiu Ma , Xiang Li , Yubao Liu , Yong-Sheng Zhang , Haixing Miao

The generation of long-lived entanglement on an optical clock transition is a key requirement to unlocking the promise of quantum metrology. Arrays of neutral atoms constitute a capable quantum platform for accessing such physics, where…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Nathan Schine , Aaron W. Young , William J. Eckner , Michael J. Martin , Adam M. Kaufman

State selective protocols, like entanglement purification, lead to an essentially non-linear quantum evolution, unusual in naturally occurring quantum processes. Sensitivity to initial states in quantum systems, stemming from such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-11 András Gilyén , Tamás Kiss , Igor Jex

We theoretically propose a scheme to perform rotation sensing in a Whispering-gallery-mode resonator setup. With the assistance of a large detuned two-level atom, which induces the effective coupling between clockwise and counterclockwise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Weijun Cheng , Zhihai Wang , Xiaoguang Wang

The transition from quantum to classical, in the case of a quantum harmonic oscillator, is typically identified with the transition from a quantum superposition of macroscopically distinguishable states, such as the Schr\"odinger cat state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Janika Paavola , Michael J. W. Hall , Matteo G. A. Paris , Sabrina Maniscalco

The squeezed cat state, an essential quantum resource, can be used for quantum error correction and slowing decoherence of the optical cat state. However, preparing a squeezed cat state with high generation rate, and effectively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Meihong Wang , Miao Zhang , Zhongzhong Qin , Qiang Zhang , Li Zeng , Xiaolong Su , Changde Xie , Kunchi Peng

We present a new complete set of states for a class of open quantum systems, to be used in expansion of the Green's function and the time-evolution operator. A remarkable feature of the complete set is that it observes time-reversal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-25 Naomichi Hatano , Gonzalo Ordonez

Quantum metrology aims to exploit many-body quantum states to achieve parameter-estimation precision beyond the standard quantum limit. For unitary parameter encoding generated by local Hamiltonians, such enhancement is characterized by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Junjie Chen , Rui Luo , Yuxuan Yan , You Zhou , Xiongfeng Ma

Disentanglement and loss of quantum correlations due to one global collective noise effect are described for two-qubit Schr\"odinger cat and Werner states of a four level trapped ion quantum system. Once the Jaynes-Cummings ionic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Victor A. S. V. Bittencourt , Alex E. Bernardini

We examine the time evolution of a two level ion interacting with a light field in harmonic oscillator trap and in a trap with anharmonicities. The anharmonicities of the trap are quantified in terms of the deformation parameter $\tau $…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. Shelly Sharma , N. K. Sharma

For a periodically shaken optical lattice, effective time-reversal is investigated numerically. For interacting ultra-cold atoms, the scheme of [J. Phys. B 45, 021002 (2012)] involves a quasi-instantaneous change of both the…

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