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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 100, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.013814
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- JST-CREST [JPMJCR1674]
- Japan Science and Technology Agency
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It is shown that the maximal phase sensitivity of a two-path interferometer with high-intensity coherent light and squeezed vacuum in the input ports can be achieved by photon-number-resolving detection of only a small number of photons in a dark output port. It is then possible to achieve the quantum Cramer-Rao bound of the two-path interferometer using only the field displacement dependence of the photon number statistics in the single mode output of the dark port represented by a field-displaced squeezed vacuum state. We find that, at small field displacements, it is not sufficient to use the average photon number as the estimator, indicating that an optimal phase estimation depends critically on measurements of the precise photon number. We therefore analyze the effect of detection efficiency on the Fisher information and show that there is a transition from low robustness against photon losses associated with quantum interference effects at low field displacements to high robustness against photon losses at high field displacements. The transition between the two regimes occurs at field shifts proportional to the third power of the squeezing factor, indicating that squeezing greatly enhances the phase interval in which quantum effects are relevant in optimal phase estimations using photon resolving detectors. The case under study could thus be understood as a missing link between genuine multiphoton interference and the straightforward suppression of noise usually associated with squeezed light.
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