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Interference lies at the heart of the behavior of classical and quantum light. It is thus crucial to understand the boundaries between which interference patterns can be explained by a classical electromagnetic description of light and…

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A major challenge in optical quantum processing is implementing large, stable interferometers. Here we propose a virtual, measurement-based interferometer that is programmed on the fly solely by the choice of homodyne measurement angles.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-17 Rafael N. Alexander , Natasha C. Gabay , Peter P. Rohde , Nicolas C. Menicucci

Sensing and measurement tasks in severely adverse conditions such as loss, noise and dephasing can be improved by illumination with quantum states of light. Previous results have shown a modest reduction in the number of measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Alex O. C. Davis , Giacomo Sorelli , Valerian Thiel , Brian J. Smith

The high-precision interferometric measurement of an unknown phase is the basis for metrology in many areas of science and technology. Quantum entanglement provides an increase in sensitivity, but present techniques have only surpassed the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 G. Y. Xiang , B. L. Higgins , D. W. Berry , H. M. Wiseman , G. J. Pryde

We propose an interferometry technique, by using electromagnetically induced transparency phenomena, for measuring classical force. The classical force is estimated by measuring the phase at the output of the interferometer. The proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Sankar Davuluri , Yong Li

High precision interferometers are the building blocks of precision metrology and the ultimate interferometric sensitivity is limited by the quantum noise. Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate a compact quantum interferometer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Xiaojie Zuo , Zhihui Yan , Yanni Feng , Jingxu Ma , Xiaojun Jia , Changde Xie , Kunchi Peng

Quantum metrology exploits quantum correlations to make precise measurements with limited particle numbers. By utilizing inter- and intra- mode correlations in an optical interferometer, we find a state that combines entanglement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 P. A. Knott , T. J. Proctor , A. J. Hayes , J. P. Cooling , J. A. Dunningham

Quantum states of light, such as squeezed states or entangled states, can be used to make measurements (metrology), produce images, and sense objects with a precision that far exceeds what is possible classically, and also exceeds what was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-02 Jonathan P. Dowling

Interferometers are essential tools to measure and shape optical fields, and are widely used in optical metrology, sensing, laser physics, and quantum mechanics. They superimpose waves with a mutual phase delay, resulting in a change in…

Achieving both high precision and large dynamic range remains a central challenge in quantum metrology, as improving local sensitivity typically reduces the unambiguous estimation range. Variational quantum interferometers enhance precision…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Qingchuan Yang , Xianing Feng , Lianfu Wei

The transition from classical to quantum mechanics has intrigued scientists in the past and remains one of the most fundamental conceptual challenges in state-of-the-art physics. Beyond the quantum mechanical correspondence principle,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Maximilian J. Seitner , Hugo Ribeiro , Johannes Kölbl , Thomas Faust , Jörg P. Kotthaus , Eva M. Weig

Gravitational information is incorporated into an atomic state by correlation of the internal and external degrees of freedom of the atom, in the present study of the atomic interferometer. Thus it is difficult to transfer information by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-23 Baocheng Zhang , Qing-yu Cai , Ming-sheng Zhan

We propose an enhanced optical interferometer based on tailored non-classical light generated by nonlinear dynamics and projective measurements in a three-level atom cavity QED system. A coherent state in the cavity becomes dynamically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 K. Gietka , T. Wasak , J. Chwedenczuk , F. Piazza , H. Ritsch

The transversely confined propagating light modes of a nano-photonic optical waveguide or nanofiber can mediate effectively infinite-range forces. We show that for a linear chain of particles trapped within the waveguide's evanescent field,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-10 Daniela Holzmann , Matthias Sonnleitner , Helmut Ritsch

Preparation of a non-classically correlated state is the first step of any quantum-enhanced interferometric protocol. An efficient method is the one-axis twisting, which entangles a collection of initially uncorrelated particles by means of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 K. Gietka , P. Szankowski , T. Wasak , J. Chwedenczuk

We propose a method to measure time-reversal symmetry violation in molecules that overcomes the standard quantum limit while leveraging decoherence-free subspaces to mitigate sensitivity to classical noise. The protocol does not require an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Chi Zhang , Phelan Yu , Arian Jadbabaie , Nicholas R. Hutzler

The phase resolution of interferometers is limited by the so-called Heisenberg limit, which states that the optimum phase sensitivity is inversely proportional to the number of interfering particles N, a 1/sqrt{N} improvement over the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Uys , P. Meystre

Quantum sensing exploits quantum phenomena to enhance the detection and estimation of classical parameters of physical systems and biological entities, particularly so as to overcome the inefficiencies of its classical counterparts. A…

We propose a quantum interferometric protocol that leverages spin-dependent spatial displacements to enable high-precision parameter estimation beyond classical limits. By inducing a unitary coupling between a particles spin degree of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Necati Celik , Songul Akbulut Ozen , Burhan Engin

We present an innovative, platform-independent concept for multiparameter sensing where the measurable parameters are in series, or cascaded, enabling measurements as a function of position. With temporally resolved detection, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Gregory Krueper , Lior Cohen , Juliet T. Gopinath