Quantum Fisher information in many-photon states from shift current shot noise

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Main Authors: Barts, Evgenii, Morimoto, Takahiro, Nagaosa, Naoto
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author Barts, Evgenii
Morimoto, Takahiro
Nagaosa, Naoto
author_facet Barts, Evgenii
Morimoto, Takahiro
Nagaosa, Naoto
contents Quantum Fisher information (QFI) sets the ultimate precision of optical phase measurements and reveals multiphoton entanglement, but it is not accessible with conventional photodetection. We theoretically predict that a photodetector utilizing the shot noise of the quantum-geometric shift current of exciton polaritons can directly measure the QFI of nonclassical light. By solving the Lindblad equation, we obtain the time-dependent nonlinear photocurrent for an arbitrary initial photon state. It turns out that, regardless of the quantum state of the incident light, the integrated current depends only on the mean photon number. In stark contrast, the shot noise retains the quantum information: its Fano factor is proportional to the photon number variance and therefore encodes the QFI. Numerical calculations confirm these relations for illumination with optical Schrödinger cat and squeezed vacuum states. Quantum correlations in nonclassical light, usually hidden from direct detection, become observable in the form of shift current shot noise
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Barts, Evgenii
Morimoto, Takahiro
Nagaosa, Naoto
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Quantum Physics
Quantum Fisher information (QFI) sets the ultimate precision of optical phase measurements and reveals multiphoton entanglement, but it is not accessible with conventional photodetection. We theoretically predict that a photodetector utilizing the shot noise of the quantum-geometric shift current of exciton polaritons can directly measure the QFI of nonclassical light. By solving the Lindblad equation, we obtain the time-dependent nonlinear photocurrent for an arbitrary initial photon state. It turns out that, regardless of the quantum state of the incident light, the integrated current depends only on the mean photon number. In stark contrast, the shot noise retains the quantum information: its Fano factor is proportional to the photon number variance and therefore encodes the QFI. Numerical calculations confirm these relations for illumination with optical Schrödinger cat and squeezed vacuum states. Quantum correlations in nonclassical light, usually hidden from direct detection, become observable in the form of shift current shot noise
title Quantum Fisher information in many-photon states from shift current shot noise
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29188