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We present an innovative optical imaging system for measuring parameters of a small particle such as a macromolecule or nanoparticle at the quantum limit of sensitivity. In comparison to the conventional confocal interferometric scattering…

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Quantum noise limits the sensitivity of interferometric measurements. It is generally admitted that it leads to an ultimate sensitivity, the ``standard quantum limit''. Using a semi-classical analysis of quantum noise, we show that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-01 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

We theoretically investigate the phase sensitivity with parity detection on an SU(1,1) interferometer with a coherent state combined with a squeezed vacuum state. This interferometer is formed with two parametric amplifiers for beam…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Dong Li , Bryan T. Gard , Yang Gao , Chun-Hua Yuan , Weiping Zhang , Hwang Lee , Jonathan P. Dowling

Beam splitters are optical elements widely used in modern technological applications to split the initial light beam into a required number of beams and they play a very promising role for generating entangled optical states. Here, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Abdallah Slaoui , Brahim Amghar , Rachid Ahl Laamara

The interference between coherent and squeezed vacuum light can produce path entangled states with very high fidelities. We show that the phase sensitivity of the above interferometric scheme with parity detection saturates the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Kaushik P. Seshadreesan , Petr M. Anisimov , Hwang Lee , Jonathan P. Dowling

We investigate the phase sensitivity of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer using a special class of generalized coherent states constructed from generalized Heisenberg and deformed $su(1,1)$ algebras. These states, derived from a perturbed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 N. E. Abouelkhir , A. Slaoui , R. Ahl Laamara

Assessing whether a quantum state $\hat \rho$ is nonclassical ($\textit{i.e.}$, incompatible with a mixture of coherent states) is a ubiquitous question in quantum optics, yet a nontrivial experimental task because many nonclassicality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Célia Griffet , Matthieu Arnhem , Stephan De Bièvre , Nicolas J. Cerf

Information recycling has been shown to improve the sensitivity of atom interferometers by exploiting atom-light entanglement. In this paper, we apply information recycling to an interferometer where the input quantum state has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-04 Simon A. Haine , Stuart S. Szigeti , Matthias D. Lang , Carlton M. Caves

Quantum coherence is critical resource for applications in quantum technology, among which quantum-enhanced sensing represents a typical example.Compared with quantum metrology with entangled states of multiple qubits, bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Xiao-Wei Zheng , Jun-Cong Zheng , Xue-Feng Pan , Pengbo Li

The precision of phase estimation with interferometers can be greatly enhanced using non-classical quantum states, and the SU(11) interferometer is an elegant scheme, which generates two-mode squeezed state internally and also amplifies the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Mingchen Liu , Lijian Zhang , Haixing Miao

Recently, the basic concept of quantum coherence (or superposition) has gained a lot of renewed attention, after Baumgratz et al. [PRL 113:140401 (2014)], following \AA{}berg [arXiv:quant-ph/0612146], have proposed a resource theoretic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Tanmoy Biswas , María García Díaz , Andreas Winter

Coherent-state-based phase estimation is a fruitful testbed for the field of precision measurements since coherent states are robust to decoherence when compared with exotic quantum states. The seminal work done by Caves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Jian-Dong Zhang , Zi-Jing Zhang , Long-Zhu Cen , Jun-Yan Hu , Yuan Zhao

We investigate the notion of quantumness based on the non-commutativity of the algebra of observables and introduce a measure of quantumness based on the mutual incompatibility of quantum states. We show that such a quantity can be…

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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-09-24 S. Robles-Perez , Y. Hassouni , P. F. Gonzalez-Diaz

Quantum metrology studies the use of entanglement and other quantum resources to improve precision measurement. An interferometer using N independent particles to measure a parameter X can achieve at best the "standard quantum limit" (SQL)…

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A statistical distinguishability based on relative entropy characterises the fitness of quantum states for phase estimation. This criterion is employed in the context of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and used to interpolate between two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gabriel A. Durkin , Jonathan P. Dowling

Measures are introduced to quantify the degree of superposition in mixed states with respect to orthogonal decompositions of the Hilbert space of a quantum system. These superposition measures can be regarded as analogues to entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Johan Aberg

High sensitivity quantum interferometry requires more than just access to entangled states. It is achieved through deep understanding of quantum correlations in a system. Integrable models offer the framework to develop this understanding.…

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The well-known two-slit interference is understood as a special relation between observable (localization at the slits) and state (being on both slits). Relation between an observable and a quantum state is investigated in the general case.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fedor Herbut

We theoretically study the phase sensitivity of the SU(1,1) interferometer with a coherent light together with a squeezed vacuum input case using the method of homodyne. We find that the homodyne detection has better sensitivity than the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 Dong Li , Chun-Hua Yuan , Z. Y. Ou , Weiping Zhang