Quantum SU (1, 1) interferometers: Basic principles and applications

ZY Ou, X Li - APL Photonics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
ABSTRACT A new type of quantum interferometer was recently realized that employs
parametric amplifiers (PAs) as the wave splitting and mixing elements. The quantum …

Optical quantum states based on hot atomic ensembles and their applications

K Zhang, S Liu, Y Chen, X Wang, J **g - Photonics Insights, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The four-wave mixing process in atomic ensembles has many important applications in
quantum information. We review recent progress on the generation of optical quantum states …

Improvement of phase sensitivity in an SU (1, 1) interferometer via a phase shift induced by a Kerr medium

S Chang, W Ye, H Zhang, L Hu, J Huang, S Liu - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We theoretically study the phase sensitivity of an SU (1, 1) interferometer, in which the phase
shift is induced by a Kerr medium, together with a coherent state input and homodyne …

Phase sensitivity improvement in correlation-enhanced nonlinear interferometers

X Liang, Z Yu, CH Yuan, W Zhang, L Chen - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
Interferometers are widely used as sensors in precision measurement. Compared with a
conventional Mach–Zehnder interferometer, the sensitivity of a correlation-enhanced …

Quantum interferometer combining squeezing and parametric amplification

X Zuo, Z Yan, Y Feng, J Ma, X Jia, C **e, K Peng - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
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 …

Truncated nonlinear interferometry for quantum-enhanced atomic force microscopy

RC Pooser, N Savino, E Batson, JL Beckey, J Garcia… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Nonlinear interferometers that replace beam splitters in Mach-Zehnder interferometers with
nonlinear amplifiers for quantum-enhanced phase measurements have drawn increasing …

The parity operator: Applications in quantum metrology

RJ Birrittella, PM Alsing, CC Gerry - AVS Quantum Science, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, the authors review the use of parity as a detection observable in quantum
metrology and introduce some original findings with regard to measurement resolution in …

Phase sensitivity of spatially broadband high-gain interferometers

D Scharwald, T Meier, PR Sharapova - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Nonlinear interferometers are promising tools for quantum metrology, as they are
characterized by an improved phase sensitivity scaling compared to linear interferometers …

Phase sensitivity of an SU (1, 1) interferometer in photon-loss via photon operations

Y Xu, T Zhao, Q Kang, C Liu, L Hu, S Liu - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We study the phase sensitivity of an SU (1, 1) interferometer with photon loss by using three
different photon operations schemes, ie, performing photon-addition operation on the input …

Sub-Planck phase-space structure and sensitivity for SU (1, 1) compass states

N Akhtar, BC Sanders, G **anlong - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We investigate the sub-Planck-scale structures associated with the SU (1, 1) group by
establishing that the Planck scale on the hyperbolic plane can be considered as the inverse …