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View SchemaPhase Sensitivity of a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer
| Authors | Luca Pezze', Augusto Smerzi |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0511059 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0511059 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.011801 |
Abstract
The best performance of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer is achieved with the input state |N_T/2 + 1>|N_T/2-1 > + |N_T/2 - 1>|N_T/2+1>, being N_T the total number of atoms/photons. This gives: i) a phase-shift error confidence C_{68%}=2.67/N_T with ii) a single interferometric measurement. Different input quantum states can achieve the Heisenberg scaling ~ 1/N_T but with higher prefactors and at the price of a statistical analysis of two or more independent measurements.
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