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A method for performing nonlocal interferometry using phase-entangled macroscopic coherent states is described. The required entanglement can be generated using weak nonlinearities while Bell's inequality can be violated using single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 B. T. Kirby , J. D. Franson

We present a new approach for image reconstruction and weak lensing measurements with interferometers. Based on the shapelet formalism presented in Refregier (2001), object images are decomposed into orthonormal Hermite basis functions. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Tzu-Ching Chang , Alexandre Refregier

Conventional wisdom dictates that to image the position of fluorescent atoms or molecules, one should stimulate as much emission and collect as many photons as possible. That is, in this classical case, it has always been assumed that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Guang Hao Low , Theodore J. Yoder , Isaac L. Chuang

We discuss the role of an external phase reference in quantum interferometry. We point out inconsistencies in the literature with regard to the use of the quantum Fisher information (QFI) in phase estimation interferometric schemes. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-22 Marcin Jarzyna , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

Photon counting measurement has been regarded as the optimal measurement scheme for phase estimation in the squeezed-state interferometry, since the classical Fisher information equals to the quantum Fisher information and scales as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 P. Liu , G. R. Jin

Performing efficient quantum computer tuneup and calibration is essential for growth in system complexity. In this work we explore the link between facilitating such capabilities and the underlying architecture of the physical hardware. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-27 Riddhi S. Gupta , Luke C. G. Govia , Michael J. Biercuk

To investigate the fundamental limit to far-field incoherent imaging, the prequels to this work [M. Tsang, Phys. Rev. A 99, 012305 (2019); 104, 052411 (2021)] have studied a quantum lower bound on the error of estimating an object moment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Xiao-Jie Tan , Mankei Tsang

Quantum Telescope is a recent idea aimed at beating the diffraction limit of spaceborne telescopes and possibly also other distant target imaging systems. There is no agreement yet on the best setup of such devices, but some configurations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-04 A. R. Kurek , T. Pięta , Tomasz Stebel , A. Pollo , A. Popowicz

We explore the sensitivity of an interferometer based on a quantum circuit for coherent states. We show that its sensitivity is at the Heisenberg limit. Moreover we show that this arrangement can measure very small length intervals.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. C. Ralph

Microarcsecond resolutions afforded by an optical-NIR array with kilometer-baselines would enable breakthrough science. However significant technology barriers exist in transporting weakly coherent photon states over these distances:…

Photodetector nonlinearity, the main limiting factor in terms of optical power in the detection chain, is corrected to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of a short-time measurement in dual-comb spectroscopy. An iterative correction…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-08 Philippe Guay , Nicolas Bourbeau Hébert , Alex Tourigny-Plante , Vincent Michaud-Belleau , Jérôme Genest

We demonstrate optical interferometry beyond the limits imposed by the photon wavelength using 'triggered' entangled photon pairs from a semiconductor quantum dot. Interference fringes of the entangled biphoton state reveals a periodicity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-28 R. M. Stevenson , A. J. Hudson , R. J. Young , P. Atkinson , K. Cooper , D. A. Ritchie , A. J. Shields

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

We provide a new quantum algorithm that efficiently determines the quality of a least-squares fit over an exponentially large data set by building upon an algorithm for solving systems of linear equations efficiently (Harrow et al., Phys.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-10 Nathan Wiebe , Daniel Braun , Seth Lloyd

The Rayleigh criterion is a widely known limit in the resolution of incoherent sources with classical measurements in the spatial domain. Unsurprisingly the estimation of the time delay between two weak incoherent signals is afflicted by an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Salvatore Muratore , Vincenzo Tamma

We consider various configuration of quantum-enhanced interferometers, both linear (SU(2)) and non-linear (SU(1,1)) ones, as well as hybrid SU(2)/SU(1,1) schemes. Using the unified modular approach, based on the Quantum Cramer-Rao bound, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Dariya Salykina , Farid Ya. Khalili

Quantum interferometry based on induced-coherence phenomena has demonstrated the possibility of undetected-photon measurements. Perturbation in the optical path of probe photons can be detected by interference signals generated by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Eun Mi Kim , Sun Kyung Lee , Sang Min Lee , Myeong Soo Kang , Hee Su Park

We study the existence of the maximal quantum Fisher information matrix in multi-parameter quantum estimation, which bounds the ultimate precision limit. We show that when the maximal quantum Fisher information matrix exists, it can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Yu Chen , Haidong Yuan

It has been recently suggested that optical interferometers may not require a phase-stable optical link between the stations if instead sources of quantum-mechanically entangled pairs could be provided to them, enabling extra-long baselines…

For more than a century, the diffraction limit has defined the resolution achievable by passive optical imaging systems. Although some resolution improvement can be gained through classical data processing of the image, it is limited by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 A. I. Lvovsky , Michael R. Grace , Saikat Guha , Mankei Tsang , Gerardo Adesso , Nicolas Treps