Quantum-enhanced Phase Estimation in Optical Interferometry

Quantum-enhanced Phase Estimation in Optical Interferometry
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Download or read book Quantum-enhanced Phase Estimation in Optical Interferometry written by Jaspreet Sahota and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantum-enhanced interferometers utilize non-classical states of light in order to surpass the limitations imposed by classical physics on phase measurement sensitivity and resolution. We review key scientific developments in this growing field of research and derive fundamental metrology concepts, namely the Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound and the Fisher information, which are used to analyze the metrological performance of quantum states of light. We propose a supersensitive quantum interferometry protocol that can be amplified to the macroscopic realm (i.e. the mean number of photons of the probe state can reach approximately 100,000 photons) using contemporary techniques of spontaneous parametric down conversion. The parity measurement on the output field asymptotically saturates the quantum Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound, which scales like the Heisenberg limit. We uncover the role of photon statistics on phase sensitivity and rule out the necessity of mode entanglement for quantum-enhanced interferometry. Based on these insights we outline a practical metrology technique (independent of mode entanglement) that measures a phase delay of a single-mode anti-squeezing operation. This scheme can also be scaled macroscopically using contemporary techniques and is shown to significantly surpass the shot-noise limit (SNL) in the presence of realistic losses. Finally, the physical resources that enable quantum-enhanced interferometry is studied by analyzing the quantum Fisher information (QFI) using the first quantization and the second quantization formalisms of quantum mechanics. It is shown that increasing the intra-mode correlations of an interferometer (as quantified by the second order Glauber coherence function) can be conducive to attaining a quantum advantage in phase estimation; whereas, introducing mode entanglement can reduce phase sensitivity. Using the first quantization description, we derive a formula for the QFI that shows explicitly how the Heisenberg scaling term depends on particle entanglement.


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