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Quantum Inspired RF Phase Measurement by Parity Estimation

Liran Shirizly, Leonid Vidro, Naftali Kirsh, Nadav Y. Katz, H. S. Eisenberg

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

Super-resolved interferometric phase measurements in the RF domain have been demonstrated by estimating the Parity operator through quadrature measurements, saturating the information theoretic Cramer-Rao bound. We achieved 600-fold improvement over the Rayleigh limit with 56dB SNR.
DOI
10.1364/quantum.2022.qtu2a.6

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