Quantum-enhanced interferometry with large heralded photon-number states

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Thekkadath, GS
Mycroft, ME
Bell, BA
Wade, CG
Eckstein, A
Phillips, DS
Patel, RB
Buraczewski, A
Lita, AE
Gerrits, T
Nam, SW
Stobińska, M
Lvovsky, AI
Walmsley, IA
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2020
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Quantum phenomena such as entanglement can improve fundamental limits on the sensitivity of a measurement probe. In optical interferometry, a probe consisting of N entangled photons provides up to a N−−√ enhancement in phase sensitivity compared to a classical probe of the same energy. Here, we employ high-gain parametric down-conversion sources and photon-number-resolving detectors to perform interferometry with heralded quantum probes of sizes up to N = 8 (i.e. measuring up to 16-photon coincidences). Our probes are created by injecting heralded photon-number states into an interferometer, and in principle provide quantum-enhanced phase sensitivity even in the presence of significant optical loss. Our work paves the way toward quantum-enhanced interferometry using large entangled photonic states.

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npj Quantum Information

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6

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1

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Nanoelectronics

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Thekkadath, GS; Mycroft, ME; Bell, BA; Wade, CG; Eckstein, A; Phillips, DS; Patel, RB; Buraczewski, A; Lita, AE; Gerrits, T; Nam, SW; Stobińska, M; Lvovsky, AI; Walmsley, IA, Quantum-enhanced interferometry with large heralded photon-number states, npj Quantum Information, 2020, 6 (1), pp. 89

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