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Measurements in the quantum domain can exceed classical notions. This concerns fundamental questions about the nature of the measurement process itself, as well as applications, such as their function as building blocks of quantum…

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Quantum sensors are used for precision timekeeping, field sensing, and quantum communication. Comparisons among a distributed network of these sensors are capable of, for example, synchronizing clocks at different locations. The performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Benjamin K. Malia , Yunfan Wu , Julián Martínez-Rincón , Mark A. Kasevich

The initialization of a quantum system into a certain state is a crucial aspect of quantum information science. While a variety of measurement strategies have been developed to characterize how well the system is initialized, for a given…

Quantum states featuring extensive multipartite entanglement are a resource for quantum-enhanced metrology, with sensitivity up to the Heisenberg limit. However, robust generation of these states using unitary dynamics typically requires…

Quantum-enhanced metrology can be achieved by entangling a probe with an auxiliary system, passing the probe through an interferometer, and subsequently making measurements on both the probe and auxiliary system. Conceptually, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 Simon A. Haine , Stuart S. Szigeti

There is growing belief that the next decade will see the emergence of sensing devices based on the laws of quantum physics that outperform some of our current sensing devices. For example, in frequency estimation, using a probe prepared in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Shane Dooley , William J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

Measurements are central in all quantitative sciences, and a fundamental challenge is to make observations without systematic measurement errors. This holds in particular for quantum information processing, where other error sources, such…

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

We propose a method to prepare entangled states and implement quantum computation with atoms in optical cavities. The internal state of the atoms are entangled by a measurement of the phase of light transmitted through the cavity. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anders S. Sorensen , Klaus Molmer

Quantum metrology overcomes standard precision limits and plays a central role in science and technology. Practically it is vulnerable to imperfections such as decoherence. Here, we demonstrate quantum metrology for noisy channels such that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Kunkun Wang , Xiaoping Wang , Xiang Zhan , Zhihao Bian , Jian Li , Barry C. Sanders , Peng Xue

We present an improved phase estimation scheme employing entangled coherent states and demon- strate that the states give the smallest variance in the phase parameter in comparison to NOON, BAT and "optimal" states under perfect and lossy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-30 Jaewoo Joo , William J. Munro , Timothy P. Spiller

Quantum technologies use entanglement to outperform classical technologies, and often employ strong cooling and isolation to protect entangled entities from decoherence by random interactions. Here we show that the opposite strategy -…

The ultimate stability of atomic clocks is limited by the quantum noise of the atoms. To reduce this noise it has been suggested to use entangled atomic ensembles with reduced atomic noise. Potentially this can push the stability all the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-14 Johannes Borregaard , Anders S. Sørensen

Quantum-enhanced measurements exploit quantum mechanical effects for increasing the sensitivity of measurements of certain physical parameters and have great potential for both fundamental science and concrete applications. Most of the…

Quantum metrology based on quantum entanglement and quantum coherence improves the accuracy of measurement. In this paper, we briefly review the schemes of quantum metrology in various complex systems, including non-Markovian noise,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Qing Ai , Yang-Yang Wang , Jing Qiu

Entanglement is a key property in the development of quantum technologies and in the study of quantum many-body simulations. However, entanglement measurement typically requires quantum full-state tomography (FST). Here we present a neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Yulei Huang , Liangyu Che , Chao Wei , Feng Xu , Xinfang Nie , Jun Li , Dawei Lu , Tao Xin

In this paper, we investigate how to reduce the number of measurement configurations needed for sufficiently precise entanglement quantification. Instead of analytical formulae, we employ artificial neural networks to predict the amount of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Jan Roik , Karol Bartkiewicz , Antonín Černoch , Karel Lemr

Quantum entanglement between particles is expected to allow one to perform tasks that would otherwise be impossible. In quantum sensing and metrology, entanglement is often claimed to enable a precision that cannot be attained with the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Liam P. McGuinness

We use machine optimisation to develop a quantum sensing scheme that achieves significantly better sensitivity than traditional schemes with the same quantum resources. Utilising one-axis twisting dynamics to generate quantum entanglement,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Simon A. Haine , Joseph J. Hope

Entangled photons can be used to make measurements with an accuracy beyond that possible with classical light. While most implementations of quantum metrology have used states made up of a single colour of photons, we show that entangled…