Parity measurements in optical interferometry and tests of quantum mechanics

H. Rauch

Helmut Rauch

Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański, Marcin Jarzyna, Jan Kołodyński

Aravind Chiruvelli, Hwang Lee

We investigate the utility of parity detection to achieve Heisenberg-limited phase estimation for optical interferometry. We consider the parity detection with several input states that have been shown to exhibit sub-shot-noise interferometry with their respective detection schemes. We show that with parity detection, all these states achieve the sub-shot-noise limited phase uncertainty. Thus making the parity detection a unified detection strategy for quantum optical metrology. We also consider quantum states that are a combination of a NOON state and a dual-Fock state, which gives a great deal of freedom in the preparation of the input state, and is found to surpass the shot-noise limit.

H. Rauch

P. Hariharan, Barry C. Sanders