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Parameter estimation is of fundamental importance in areas from atomic spectroscopy and atomic clocks to gravitational wave detection. Entangled probes provide a significant precision gain over classical strategies in the absence of noise.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-28 R. Chaves , J. B. Brask , M. Markiewicz , J. Kolodynski , A. Acin

The topic of quantum noise has become extremely timely due to the rise of quantum information physics and the resulting interchange of ideas between the condensed matter and AMO/quantum optics communities. This review gives a pedagogical…

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Noise properties of an idealized atomic magnetometer that utilizes spin squeezing induced by a continuous quantum nondemolition measurement are considered. Such a magnetometer measures spin precession of $N$ atomic spins by detecting…

The enhanced Gaussian noise (EGN) model is widely used for estimating the nonlinear interference (NLI) power accumulated in coherent fiber-optic transmission systems. Given a fixed fiber link, under the assumption that transmitted symbols…

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We develop a system for measurements of power spectra of transmitted light intensity fluctuations, in which the extraneous noise, including shot noise, is reduced. In essence, we just apply light, measure the power of the transmitted light…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Takahisa Mitsui , Kenichiro Aoki

In practical sensing tasks, noise is usually regarded as an obstruction to better performance and will degrade the sensitivity. Fortunately, \textit{stochastic resonance} (SR), a counterintuitive concept, can utilize noise to greatly…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Kang-Da Wu , Chongwu Xie , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo , Chang-Ling Zou , Guo-Yong Xiang

Bosonic systems, particularly in quantum optics and atomic physics, are leading platforms for achieving quantum enhanced precision in parameter estimation. By exploiting properties such as mode and particle entanglement, it is possible to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Astghik Saharyan , Eloi Descamps , Arne Keller , Pérola Milman

Since the discovery of Quasi-stellar Objects (QSOs), also known as quasars, they have been traditionally subdivided as radio-loud and radio-quiet sources. Whether such division is a misleading effect from a highly heterogeneous single…

In this paper, we propose to use the discretized version of the so-called Enhanced Gaussian Noise (EGN) model to estimate the non-linearity effects of fiber on the performance of optical coherent and uncompensated transmission (CUT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Ramin Hashemi , Mehdi Habibi , Hamzeh Beyranvand , Ali Emami , Mahdi Hashemi , Davood Ranjbar Rafie

This work investigates the parameter estimation performance of super-resolution line spectral estimation using atomic norm minimization. The focus is on analyzing the algorithm's accuracy of inferring the frequencies and complex magnitudes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Qiuwei Li , Gongguo Tang

The laws of quantum mechanics allow to perform measurements whose precision supersedes results predicted by classical parameter estimation theory. That is, the precision bound imposed by the central limit theorem in the estimation of a…

Quantum advantage requires overcoming noise-induced degradation of quantum systems. Conventional methods for reducing noise such as error mitigation face scalability issues in deep circuits. Specifically, noise hampers the extraction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Yonglong Ding , Ruyu Yang

Quantum-enhanced measurements exploit quantum mechanical effects to provide ultra-precise estimates of physical variables for use in advanced technologies, such as frequency calibration of atomic clocks, gravitational waves detection, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 J. Calsamiglia , B. Gendra , R. Munoz-Tapia , E. Bagan

The variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is ubiquitous but has not yet been understood. Measuring the optical variation properties of AGNs, such as variation timescale and amplitude, and then correlating them with their fundamental…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-11 Xu-Fan Hu , Zhen-Yi Cai , Jun-Xian Wang

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle sets a lower bound on the sensitivity of continuous optical measurements of force. This bound, the standard quantum limit, can only be reached when a mechanical oscillator subjected to the force is…

Analog Programmable-Photonic Computation (APC) leverages programmable integrated photonics (PIP) to perform high-speed matrix operations using optical waves. However, the continuous nature of optical waves that implement the analog bits or…

We introduce a generalized filter-function framework that treats noise coupling strength as a tunable control parameter, enabling target noise suppression across user-defined frequency bands. By optimizing this generalized filter function,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Zhi-Da Zhang , Yao Song , Wen-Zheng Dong , Xiu-Hao Deng

We propose an atomic norm minimization (ANM) estimator of frequencies in a noisy complex sinusoidal signal that integrates Georgiou's filter bank (G-filter) with multiple output vectors (MOV). Unlike our previous work on the G-filter…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Jiale Tang , Bin Zhu

Quantum sensors hold considerable promise for precision measurement, yet their capabilities are inherently constrained by environmental noise. A fundamental task in quantum sensing is determining the precision limit of noisy sensor devices.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Dayou Yang , Moulik Ketkar , Koenraad Audenaert , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Autonomous (noise-agnostic) generative models, such as Equilibrium Matching and blind diffusion, challenge the standard paradigm by learning a single, time-invariant vector field that operates without explicit noise-level conditioning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Mojtaba Sahraee-Ardakan , Mauricio Delbracio , Peyman Milanfar