Quantum metrology employs quantum effects to attain a measurement precision surpassing the limit achievable in classical physics. However, it was previously found that the precision returns the shot-noise limit (SNL) from the ideal Zeno limit (ZL) due to the photon loss in quantum metrology based on Mech-Zehnder interferometer. Here, we find that not only the SNL can be beaten, but also the ZL can be asymptotically recovered in long-encoding-time condition when the photon dissipation is exactly studied in its inherent non-Markovian manner. Our analysis reveals that it is due to the formation of a bound state of the photonic system and its dissipative noise. Highlighting the microscopic mechanism of the dissipative noise on the quantum optical metrology, our result supplies a guideline to realize the ultrasensitive measurement in practice by forming the bound state in the setting of reservoir engineering.
@article{arxiv.1901.06858,
title = {Retrieving ideal precision in noisy quantum optical metrology},
author = {Kai Bai and Zhen Peng and Hong-Gang Luo and Jun-Hong An},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.06858},
year = {2019}
}
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To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. 6 pages and 3 figures in the main text. 3 pages and 1 figure in the supplemental material