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We demonstrated the first-order interference between coherent light at 1580 nm and 795 nm by using frequency-domain Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). The MZI is implemented by two frequency-domain BSs based on a second-order nonlinear…

We study the sensitivity of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer that contains in addition to the phase shifter a non-linear element. By including both elements in a cavity or a loop that the light transverses many times, a non-linear kicked…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Sabrina Müller , Daniel Braun

The problem of long-distance teleportation of single-atom qubits via a common photonic channel is examined within the framework of a Mach-Zender optical interferometer. As expected, when a coherent state is used as input, a high-finesse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. P. Huang , M. G. Moore

We study a Mach-Zehnder interferometer fed by a coherent state in one input port and vacuum in the other. We explore a Bayesian phase estimation strategy to demonstrate that it is possible to achieve the standard quantum limit independently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Pezze , A. Smerzi , G. Khoury , J. F. Hodelin , D. Bouwmeester

We use a novel scanning electron Mach-Zehnder interferometer constructed in a conventional transmission electron microscope to perform inelastic interferometric imaging with free electrons. An electron wave function is prepared in two paths…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Cameron W. Johnson , Amy E. Turner , F. Javier García de Abajo , Benjamin J. McMorran

We suggest a self-testing teleportation configuration for photon q-bits based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. That is, Bob can tell how well the input state has been teleported without knowing what that input state was. One could imagine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 T. C. Ralph

Stimulated by a very recent experiment observing successfully two superconducting states with even- and odd-number of electrons in a nanowire topological superconductor as expected from the existence of two end Majorana quasiparticles (MQs)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-01 Zhi Wang , Wen-Chao Huang , Qi-Feng Liang , Xiao Hu

We demonstrate a 2-grating free electron Mach-Zehnder interferometer constructed in a transmission electron microscope. A symmetric binary phase grating and condenser lens system forms two spatially separated, focused probes at the sample…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-13 Cameron W. Johnson , Amy E. Turner , Benjamin J. McMorran

We use a Mach-Zehnder quantum Hall interferometer of a novel design to investigate the interference effects at fractional filling factors. Our device brings together the advantages of usual Mach-Zehnder and Fabry-Perot quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 E. V. Deviatov , S. V. Egorov , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba

Confined to a two-dimensional plane, electrons in a strong magnetic field travel along the edge in one-dimensional quantum Hall channels that are protected against backscattering. These channels can be used as solid-state analogues of…

Electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers in the Quantum Hall (QH) regime are currently discussed for the realization of quantum information schemes. A recently proposed device architecture employs interference between two co-propagating edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 N. Paradiso , S. Heun , S. Roddaro , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , L. Sorba , G. Biasiol , F. Beltram

A common challenge in superconducting quantum circuits is the trade-off between strong coupling and computational subspace integrity. We present Mathieu control, which uses a non-resonant two-photon drive to create a selective nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Yi-Han Yu , Xin-Yi Li , Kai Xu , Heng Fan

We show that the phase sensitivity $\Delta \theta$ of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer fed by a coherent state in one input port and squeezed-vacuum in the other one is i) independent from the true value of the phase shift and ii) can reach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Pezze' , A. Smerzi

Recent advances in quantum photonics have enabled increasingly robust protocols in optical phase estimation, achieving precisions beyond the standard quantum limit and approaching the Heisenberg limit. While intrinsic losses hinder the…

In this paper we describe within the formalism of Quantum Optics (QO) a double Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). For single photon Fock states this experimental setup is shown to exhibit a counter-intuitive behavior: for certain values of…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-08 Stefan Ataman

We proposed an analytical model to analyze the Landau-Zener interference in a multilevel superconducting flux qubit driven by large amplitude external fields. Our analytical results agree remarkably with those of the experiment [Nature 455,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xueda Wen , Yang Yu

We study the entanglement between the two beams exiting a Mach-Zehnder interferometer fed by a couple of squeezed-coherent states with arbitrary squeezing parameter. The quantum correlations at the output are function of the internal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Matteo G. A. Paris

Optical interferometers are extensively used in fundamental physics test, gravitational wave detection, quantum metrology, topological photonics, and quantum information processing. Fiber-based interferometers are compact, robust and cheap,…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-21 Ruiyang Chen , Yi-Han Luo , Jinbao Long , Junqiu Liu

Scalable photonic quantum technologies are based on multiple nested interferometers. To realize this architecture, integrated optical structures are needed to ensure stable, controllable, and repeatable operation. Here we show a key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-12 Brian J. Smith , Dmytro Kundys , Nicholas Thomas-Peter , P. G. R. Smith , I. A. Walmsley

We present a method for intrusion detection which is based on the Mach-Zehnder interference effect. This device provides monitored surveillance by continuously measuring the intensity of light collected by a pair of photodetectors. We find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 C. Allen Bishop , Travis S. Humble , Ryan S. Bennink , Brian P. Williams