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The Mach-Zehnder interferometer is a fundamental tool for measuring phase shifts between two light paths, serving as a crucial prototype for achieving high-precision measurements in various scientific and technological applications. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Bing-Shu Hu , Xiao-Ming Lu

The ultimate limits to estimating a fluctuating phase imposed on an optical beam can be found using the recently derived continuous quantum Cramer-Rao bound. For Gaussian stationary statistics, and a phase spectrum scaling asymptotically as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-23 Dominic W. Berry , Michael J. W. Hall , Howard M. Wiseman

Quantum entanglement has the potential to revolutionize the entire field of interferometric sensing by providing many orders of magnitude improvement in interferometer sensitivity. The quantum-entangled particle interferometer approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kishore T. Kapale , Leo D. Didomenico , Hwang Lee , Pieter Kok , Jonathan P. Dowling

The concepts of separability, entanglement, spin-squeezing and Heisenberg limit are central in the theory of quantum enhanced metrology. In the current literature, these are well established only in the case of linear interferometers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 P. Hyllus , L. Pezzé , A. Smerzi

An effective Hamiltonian describing interaction between generic "fast" and a "slow" systems is obtained in the strong interaction limit. The result is applied for studying the effect of quantum phase transition as a bifurcation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Isabel Sainz , Andrei B. Klimov , Luis Roa

The working principles of linear optical quantum computing are based on photodetection, namely, projective measurements. The use of photodetection can provide efficient nonlinear interactions between photons at the single-photon level,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-09 Hwang Lee , Pieter Kok , Colin P. Williams , Jonathan P. Dowling

Precision measurements are important across all fields of science. In particular, optical phase measurements can be used to measure distance, position, displacement, acceleration and optical path length. Quantum entanglement enables higher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tomohisa Nagata , Ryo Okamoto , Jeremy L. O'Brien , Keiji Sasaki , Shigeki Takeuchi

A number of visions for a new generation of dose-efficient electron microscopes have been advanced. These proposals, while inspired by quantum principles, make little contact with the broader field of quantum metrology. We discuss a…

A selected set of topics in quantum phase transition is discussed. It includes dissipative quantum phase transitions, the role of disorder, and the relevance of quantum phase transition to measurement theory in quantum mechanics.

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-13 Sudip Chakravarty

In this paper, we use the non-linear dynamics of the individual quantum trajectories of an optical cavity inside an instantaneous quantum feedback loop to measure the phase shift between two pathways of light with an accuracy above the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Lewis A. Clark , Adam Stokes , Almut Beige

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

Nonlinear interferometers are promising tools for quantum metrology, as they are characterized by an improved phase sensitivity scaling compared to linear interferometers operating with classical light. However, the multimodeness of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 D. Scharwald , T. Meier , P. R. Sharapova

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.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 D. S. Grun , L. H. Ymai , Karin Wittmann Wilsmann , A. P. Tonel , A. Foerster , J. Links

A quantum theory of multiphase estimation is crucial for quantum-enhanced sensing and imaging and may link quantum metrology to more complex quantum computation and communication protocols. In this letter we tackle one of the key…

This article proposes the construction of Wigner measures in the infinite dimensional bosonic quantum field theory, with applications to the derivation of the mean field dynamics. Once these asymptotic objects are well defined, it is shown…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-11-28 Ammari Zied , Nier Francis

A fundamental parameter to determine how electromagnetic waves interfere is their relative phase. Therefore, achieving a fine control over it enables a wide range of interferometric applications. Existing phase control methods rely on…

Interferometry with quantum light is known to provide enhanced precision for estimating a single phase. However, depending on the parameters involved, the quantum limit for the simultaneous estimation of multiple parameters may not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-07 Philip J. D. Crowley , Animesh Datta , Marco Barbieri , Ian A. Walmsley

We theoretically investigate the phase sensitivity with parity detection on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with a coherent state combined with a photon-added squeezed vacuum state. When the phase shift approaches zero, the squeezed vacuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Shui Wang , Xuexiang Xu , Yejun Xu , Lijian Zhang

We derive a quantum limit to the sensitivity of laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors from optical-loss-induced dissipation, analogous to the sensitivity limit from the mechanical dissipation. It applies universally to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Haixing Miao , Nicolas D. Smith , Matthew Evans

Generalized quantum measurements identifying non-orthogonal states without ambiguity often play an indispensable role in various quantum applications. For such unambiguous state discrimination scenario, we have a finite probability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-16 Shuro Izumi , Jonas S. Neergaard-Nielsen , Ulrik L. Andersen