Applications of single photons in quantum metrology, biology and the foundations of quantum physics

C Couteau, S Barz, T Durt, T Gerrits, J Huwer… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
With the development of photonic quantum technologies, single photons have become key
for various applications including quantum communication and quantum computing …

Quantum plasmonic sensors

C Lee, B Lawrie, R Pooser, KG Lee… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The extraordinary sensitivity of plasmonic sensors is well-known in the optics and photonics
community. These sensors exploit simultaneously the enhancement and the localization of …

Metrological robustness of high photon number optical cat states

P Stammer, TF Martos, M Lewenstein… - Quantum Science …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In the domain of quantum metrology, cat states have demonstrated their utility despite their
inherent fragility with respect to losses. Here, we introduce noise robust optical cat states …

A hybrid machine learning algorithm for designing quantum experiments

L O'Driscoll, R Nichols, PA Knott - Quantum Machine Intelligence, 2019 - Springer
We introduce a hybrid machine learning algorithm for designing quantum optics
experiments to produce specific quantum states. Our algorithm successfully found …

Quantum multiparameter estimation with generalized balanced multimode NOON-like states

L Zhang, KWC Chan - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
The simultaneous multiparameter estimation problem using a class of multimode entangled
states is investigated in this paper. Specifically, the problem of optical phase imaging is …

Asymmetric entanglement for quantum target sensing

SY Lee, J Kim, Z Kim, DY Kim - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Entanglement is beneficial to enhancing a phase sensitivity beyond the classical limit that is
given by a coherent state. The best performance is achieved with symmetric entangled …

Sufficient condition for a quantum state to be genuinely quantum non-Gaussian

L Happ, MA Efremov, H Nha… - New Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We show that the expectation value of the operator $\hat {{\mathcal O}}\equiv\exp (-c {\hat
{x}}^{2})+\exp (-c {\hat {p}}^{2}) $ defined by the position and momentum operators $\hat {x} …

Practical resources and measurements for lossy optical quantum metrology

C Oh, SY Lee, H Nha, H Jeong - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We study the sensitivity of phase estimation in a lossy Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI)
using two general, and practical, resources generated by a laser and a nonlinear optical …

Quantum phase estimation using path-symmetric entangled states

SY Lee, CW Lee, J Lee, H Nha - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
We study the sensitivity of phase estimation using a generic class of path-symmetric
entangled states| φ>| 0>+| 0>| φ>, where an arbitrary state| φ> occupies one of two modes in …

Quantum dynamics of a f-deformed opto-mechanical system

A Dehghani, B Mojaveri, M Aryaie - International Journal of Theoretical …, 2022 - Springer
Based on the f-oscillator formalism, we introduce a nonlinear optomechanical framework
which is constructed from the standard optomechanical system by deforming the single …