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Quantum-enhanced Phase Estimation with an Amplified Bell State

Quantum Physics 2014-01-06 v2 Optics

Abstract

We propose a phase estimation protocol for optical interferometry that employs a probe state (containing on average n photons) obtained by squeezing each mode, separately, of a single photon path entangled Bell state. This scheme involves a Mach-Zehnder type interferometer for which each mode is squeezed after the first beam splitter. Information about the differential phase is extracted using a parity detection and the resulting measurement signal is super-resolving and supersensitive, with a minimum phase uncertainty 2/(n+1). This probe state can be generated with current technologies where n is in the order of many thousands of photons.

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@article{arxiv.1310.0443,
  title  = {Quantum-enhanced Phase Estimation with an Amplified Bell State},
  author = {Jaspreet Sahota and Daniel F. V. James},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.0443},
  year   = {2014}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures

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