Quantum metrology with imperfect states and detectors
Quantum enhancements of precision in metrology can be compromised by system imperfections. These may be mitigated by appropriate optimization of the input state to render it robust, at the expense of making the state difficult to prepare. In this paper, we identify the major sources of imperfection...
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| author | Datta, A Zhang, L Thomas-Peter, N Dorner, U Smith, B Walmsley, I |
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| description | Quantum enhancements of precision in metrology can be compromised by system imperfections. These may be mitigated by appropriate optimization of the input state to render it robust, at the expense of making the state difficult to prepare. In this paper, we identify the major sources of imperfection an optical sensor: input state preparation inefficiency, sensor losses, and detector inefficiency. The second of these has received much attention; we show that it is the least damaging to surpassing the standard quantum limit in a optical interferometric sensor. Further, we show that photonic states that can be prepared in the laboratory using feasible resources allow a measurement strategy using photon-number-resolving detectors that not only attains the Heisenberg limit for phase estimation in the absence of losses, but also deliver close to the maximum possible precision in realistic scenarios including losses and inefficiencies. In particular, we give bounds for the trade off between the three sources of imperfection that will allow true quantum-enhanced optical metrology. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:13d289a8-20ae-4265-b9d6-0c5364aa90fd2022-03-26T10:16:00ZQuantum metrology with imperfect states and detectorsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:13d289a8-20ae-4265-b9d6-0c5364aa90fdSymplectic Elements at Oxford2010Datta, AZhang, LThomas-Peter, NDorner, USmith, BWalmsley, IQuantum enhancements of precision in metrology can be compromised by system imperfections. These may be mitigated by appropriate optimization of the input state to render it robust, at the expense of making the state difficult to prepare. In this paper, we identify the major sources of imperfection an optical sensor: input state preparation inefficiency, sensor losses, and detector inefficiency. The second of these has received much attention; we show that it is the least damaging to surpassing the standard quantum limit in a optical interferometric sensor. Further, we show that photonic states that can be prepared in the laboratory using feasible resources allow a measurement strategy using photon-number-resolving detectors that not only attains the Heisenberg limit for phase estimation in the absence of losses, but also deliver close to the maximum possible precision in realistic scenarios including losses and inefficiencies. In particular, we give bounds for the trade off between the three sources of imperfection that will allow true quantum-enhanced optical metrology. |
| spellingShingle | Datta, A Zhang, L Thomas-Peter, N Dorner, U Smith, B Walmsley, I Quantum metrology with imperfect states and detectors |
| title | Quantum metrology with imperfect states and detectors |
| title_full | Quantum metrology with imperfect states and detectors |
| title_fullStr | Quantum metrology with imperfect states and detectors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quantum metrology with imperfect states and detectors |
| title_short | Quantum metrology with imperfect states and detectors |
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