Heisenberg-limited quantum interferometry with multiphoton-subtracted twin beams
Miller Eaton, Rajveer Nehra, Aye Win +1 more
We propose a Heisenberg-limited quantum interferometer whose input is twin optical beams from which one or more photons have been indistinguishably subtracted. Such an interferometer can yield Heisenberg-limited performance while at the same time giving a direct fringe reading, unlike for the twin-beam input of the Holland-Burnett interferometer. We propose a feasible experimental realization using a photon-number correlated source, such as nondegenerate parametric down-conversion, and perform realistic analyses of performance in the presence of loss and detector inefficiency.
arXiv:1707.07641•Physical Review A•Jan 28, 2021•8 citations