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| author | Descamps, Eloi Fabre, Nicolas Keller, Arne Milman, Perola |
| author_facet | Descamps, Eloi Fabre, Nicolas Keller, Arne Milman, Perola |
| contents | We study the role of the electromagnetic field's frequency in time precision measurements using single photons as a paradigmatic system. For such, we independently identify the contributions of intensity and spectral resources and show that both can play a role on the scaling of the precision of parameter estimation with the number of probes. We show in particular that it is possible to observe a quadratic scaling using quantum mode correlations only and explicit the mathematical expression of states saturating the Heisenberg limit. We also provide a geometrical and phase space interpretation of our results, and observe a curious quantum-to-classical-like transition on scaling by modifying the spectral variance of states. Our results connect discrete and continuous aspects of single photons and quantum optics by considering from a quantum mechanical perspective the role of frequency. |
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| publishDate | 2022 |
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| spellingShingle | Quantum metrology using time-frequency as quantum continuous variables: Resources, sub shot-noise precision and phase space representation Descamps, Eloi Fabre, Nicolas Keller, Arne Milman, Perola Quantum Physics We study the role of the electromagnetic field's frequency in time precision measurements using single photons as a paradigmatic system. For such, we independently identify the contributions of intensity and spectral resources and show that both can play a role on the scaling of the precision of parameter estimation with the number of probes. We show in particular that it is possible to observe a quadratic scaling using quantum mode correlations only and explicit the mathematical expression of states saturating the Heisenberg limit. We also provide a geometrical and phase space interpretation of our results, and observe a curious quantum-to-classical-like transition on scaling by modifying the spectral variance of states. Our results connect discrete and continuous aspects of single photons and quantum optics by considering from a quantum mechanical perspective the role of frequency. |
| title | Quantum metrology using time-frequency as quantum continuous variables: Resources, sub shot-noise precision and phase space representation |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05511 |