1204.4851 (Kebei Jiang et al.)

Strategies for choosing path-entangled number states for optimal robust
quantum optical metrology in the presence of loss    [PDF]

Kebei Jiang, Chase J. Brignac, Yi Weng, Moochan B. Kim, Hwang Lee, Jonathan P. Dowling

To acquire the best path-entangled photon Fock states for robust quantum optical metrology with parity detection, we calculate phase information from a lossy interferometer by using twin entangled Fock states. We show that (a) when loss is less than 50% twin entangled Fock states with large photon number difference give higher visibility while when loss is higher than 50% the ones with less photon number difference give higher visibility; (b) twin entangled Fock states with large photon number difference give sub-shot-noise limit sensitivity for phase detection in a lossy environment. This result provides a reference on what particular path-entangled Fock states are useful for real world metrology applications.

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