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NATURE PHOTONICS
Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages 43-47Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NPHOTON.2010.268
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- Australian Research Council
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Precise interferometric measurement is vital to many scientific and technological applications. Using quantum entanglement allows interferometric sensitivity that surpasses the shot-noise limit (SNL)(1,2). To date, experiments demonstrating entanglement-enhanced sub-SNL interferometry(3-6), and most theoretical treatments(7-13), have addressed the goal of increasing signal-tonoise ratios. This is suitable for phase-sensing-detecting small variations about an already known phase. However, it is not sufficient for ab initio phase-estimation-making a self-contained determination of a phase that is initially completely unknown within the interval [0, 2 pi). Both tasks are important(2), but not equivalent. To move from the sensing regime to the ab initio estimation regime requires a non-trivial phase-estimation algorithm(14-17). Here, we implement a 'bottom-up' approach, optimally utilizing the available entangled photon states, obtained by post-selection(5,6). This enables us to demonstrate sub-SNL ab initio estimation of an unknown phase by entanglement-enhanced optical interferometry.
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