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Chin. Phys. B, 2019, Vol. 28(12): 120303    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ab4e7f
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Optimal phase estimation with photon-number difference measurement using twin-Fock states of light

J H Xu(徐佳慧)1, J Z Wang(王建中)1, A X Chen(陈爱喜)1, Y Li(李勇)2, G R Jin(金光日)1
1 Key Laboratory of Optical Field Manipulation of Zhejiang Province and Physics Department of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China;
2 Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100193, China
Abstract  Quantum phase measurement with multiphoton twin-Fock states has been shown to be optimal for detecting equal numbers of photons at the output ports of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (i.e., the so-called single-fringe detection), since the phase sensitivity can saturate the quantum Cramér-Rao lower bound at certain values of phase shift. Here we report a further step to achieve a global phase estimation at the Heisenberg limit by detecting the particle-number difference (i.e., the Ĵz measurement). We show the role of experimental imperfections on the ultimate estimation precision with the six-photon twin-Fock state of light. Our results show that both the precision and the sensing region of the Ĵz measurement are better than those of the single-fringe detection, due to combined contributions of the measurement outcomes. We numerically simulate the phase estimation protocol using an asymptotically unbiased maximum likelihood estimator.
Keywords:  foundations of quantum mechanics      measurement theory      nonclassical interferometry  
Received:  05 August 2019      Revised:  24 September 2019      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  03.65.Ta (Foundations of quantum mechanics; measurement theory)  
  42.50.St (Nonclassical interferometry, subwavelength lithography)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 91636108, 11775190, and 11774024), Science Foundation of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China (Grant No. 18062145-Y), Open Foundation of Key Laboratory of Optical Field Manipulation of Zhejiang Province, China (Grant No. ZJOFM-2019-002), and Science Challenge Project, China (Grant No. TZ2018003).
Corresponding Authors:  G R Jin     E-mail:  grjin@zstu.edu.cn

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J H Xu(徐佳慧), J Z Wang(王建中), A X Chen(陈爱喜), Y Li(李勇), G R Jin(金光日) Optimal phase estimation with photon-number difference measurement using twin-Fock states of light 2019 Chin. Phys. B 28 120303

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