Experimental demonstration of phase measurement precision beating standard quantum limit by projection measurement
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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 24001 |
| Journal / Publication | EPL |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2008 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Abstract
We propose and demonstrate experimentally a projection scheme to measure the quantum phase with a precision beating the standard quantum limit. The initial input state is a twin Fock state |N,N〉 proposed by Holland and Burnett (Phys. Rev. Lett., 71 (1993) 1355) but the phase information is extracted by a quantum state projection measurement. The phase precision is about 1.4/N for large photon number N, which approaches the Heisenberg limit of 1/N. Experimentally, we employ a four-photon state from type-II parametric down-conversion and achieve a phase uncertainty of 0.2910.001 beating the standard quantum limit of for four photons. © Europhysics Letters Association.
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Experimental demonstration of phase measurement precision beating standard quantum limit by projection measurement. / Sun, F. W.; Liu, B. H.; Gong, Y. X. et al.
In: EPL, Vol. 82, No. 2, 24001, 01.04.2008.
In: EPL, Vol. 82, No. 2, 24001, 01.04.2008.
Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
