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Two-mode interferometers, such as Michelson interferometer based on two spatial optical modes, lay the foundations for quantum metrology. Instead of exploring quantum entanglement in the two-mode interferometers, a single bosonic mode also…

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In quantum physics, measurement results are random but their statistics can be predicted assuming some knowledge about the system in the past. Additional knowledge from a future measurement deeply changes the statistics in the present and…

Can one certify the preparation of a coherent, many-body quantum state by measurements with bounded accuracy in the presence of noise and decoherence? Here, we introduce a criterion to assess the fragility of large-scale quantum states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-15 Florian Fröwis , Maarten van den Nest , Wolfgang Dür

Quantifying coherence is an essential endeavor for both quantum foundations and quantum technologies. In this paper, we put forward a quantitative measure of coherence by following the axiomatic definition of coherence measures introduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-06 C. L. Liu , Da-Jian Zhang , Xiao-Dong Yu , Qi-Ming Ding , Longjiang Liu

Quantum coherence is one of the most basic characteristics of quantum mechanics. Here we give some methods to detect and measure quantum coherence. Firstly, we propose a coherence criterion without full quantum state tomography based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Yiding Wang , Tinggui Zhang

We review recent progress and future prospects of matter wave interferometry with complex organic molecules and inorganic clusters. Three variants of a near-field interference effect, based on diffraction by material nanostructures, at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 Klaus Hornberger , Stefan Gerlich , Philipp Haslinger , Stefan Nimmrichter , Markus Arndt

Quantum coherence plays a crucial role in manipulating and controlling quantum systems, leading to breakthroughs in various fields such as quantum information, quantum sensing, and the detection of gravitational waves. Most coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Yan-Han Yang , Xue Yang , Xing-Zhou Zheng , Ming-Xing Luo

Quantum interferometric sensing plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications, including quantum metrology, quantum imaging, and quantum lithography, where minute phase shifts carry valuable physical information. The strength of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Samata Gokhale , Netanel P. Yaish , Michal Natan , Saar Levin , Yogesh Dandekar , Avi Pe'er

The existence of incompatible measurements, epitomized by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, is one of the distinctive features of quantum theory. So far, quantum incompatibility has been studied for measurements that test the preparation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Michal Sedlak , Daniel Reitzner , Giulio Chiribella , Mario Ziman

Using the eigenvalue definition of binomial states we construct new intermediate number-coherent states which reduce to number and coherent states in two different limits. We reveal the connection of these intermediate states with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hongchen Fu , Yinqi Feng , A. I. Solomon

We show that it is possible to reach the sub shot-noise sensitivity of the phase estimation using two independently prepared Bose-Einstein condensates as an input of an interferometer. In this scenario, the quantum correlations between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 T. Wasak , P. Szańkowski , J. Chwedeńczuk

Basic quantum effects are often illustrated using single particle interferences in two-path interferometers. A wider range of non-classical phenomena can be illustrated using three-path interferometers, but the increased complexity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Holger F. Hofmann

We propose a high-precision phase estimation scheme in a hybrid interferometer by synergistically combining a Kerr nonlinear phase shifter and multi-photon subtraction operations. Using a coherent state and a vacuum state as input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Lifen Guo , Qingqian Kang , Zekun Zhao , Jifeng Sun , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Xin Su , Liyun Hu

Interference is fundamental to wave dynamics and quantum mechanics. The quantum wave properties of particles are exploited in metrology using atom interferometers, allowing for high-precision inertia measurements [1, 2]. Furthermore, the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-09-14 Christian Gross , Tilman Zibold , Eike Nicklas , Jerome Esteve , Markus K. Oberthaler

Interferometry with Heisenberg limited phase resolution may play an important role in the next generation of atomic clocks, gravitational wave detectors, and in quantum information science. For experimental implementations the robustness of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Meiser , M. J. Holland

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 present in this letter a scheme for optical interferometry. We utilize coherent-beam-stimulated two-mode squeezed light, which interacts with a phase shifter and is then squeezed again before detection. Our theoretical device has the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 William N. Plick , Jonathan P. Dowling , G. S. Agarwal

We propose a simple method for measuring the populations and the relative phase in a coherent superposition of two atomic states. The method is based on coupling the two states to a third common (excited) state by means of two laser pulses,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. V. Vitanov , B. W. Shore , R. G. Unanyan , K. Bergmann

Coherent interactions between electromagnetic and matter waves lie at the heart of quantum science and technology. However, the diffraction nature of light has limited the scalability of many atom-light based quantum systems. Here, we use…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 Mingjie Xin , Wui Seng Leong , Zilong Chen , Shau-Yu Lan

This article reports on a program to obtain and understand coherent states for general systems. Most recently this has included supersymmetric systems. A byproduct of this work has been studies of squeezed and supersqueezed states. To…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-03 Michael Martin Nieto