Which role does multiphoton interference play in small phase estimation in quantum Fourier transform interferometers?

DOI10.1142/S0219749917400202zbMATH Open1397.81478arXiv1712.01898MaRDI QIDQ4584388FDOQ4584388

Vincenzo Tamma, Olaf Zimmermann

Publication date: 3 September 2018

Published in: International Journal of Quantum Information (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently, quantum Fourier transform interferometers have been demonstrated to allow a quantum metrological enhancement in phase sensitivity for a small number n of identical input single photons [1-3]. However, multiphoton distinguishability at the detectors can play an important role from an experimental point of view [4]. This raises a fundamental question: How is the phase sensitivity affected when the photons are completely distinguishable at the detectors and therefore do not interfere? In other words, which role does multiphoton interference play in these schemes? Here, we show that for small phase values the phase sensitivity achievable in the proposed schemes with indistinguishable photons is enhanced only by a constant factor with respect to the case of completely distinguishable photons at the detectors. Interestingly, this enhancement arises from the interference of only a polynomial number (in n) of the total n! multiphoton path amplitudes in the n-port interferometer. These results are independent of the number n of single photons and of the phase weight factors employed at each interferometer channel.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01898

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum metrologymultiphoton interference

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)

Cites Work

• Multi-boson correlation sampling
• The computational complexity of linear optics

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