A quantum mechanical analysis of the coherence de Broglie wavelength for superresolution and enhanced sensitivity in a coupled interferometer scheme

TL;DR

This paper provides a quantum mechanical analysis of the coherence de Broglie wavelength in a loss-free coupled interferometer scheme, demonstrating superresolution and enhanced sensitivity for quantum sensing applications.

Contribution

It introduces a novel quantum mechanical framework for analyzing CBW in coupled interferometers and demonstrates its potential for superresolution sensing.

Findings

Theoretical analysis confirms superresolution capability.

Demonstration of enhanced sensitivity in a loss-free model.

Validation of CBW as a practical quantum sensing approach.

Abstract

Quantum sensing has drawn considerable attention as a means to overcome the fundamental limitations in classical sensing. In practice, however, quantum sensing has been strongly constrained by the photon loss, the achievable photon number N in N00N states, and by a finite squeezing level in squeezed states. These limitations are particularly critical to photon-loss-sensitive applications such as LiDAR as well as to general sensing platforms that require large effective N, such as ring-laser gyroscopes. Recently, fundamentally different sensing platforms have been reported to overcome both classical and quantum constraints in a practical regime. One such approach exploits the coherence de Broglie wavelength (CBW) realized in an anti-symmetrically coupled Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) architecture. Here, a pure quantum mechanical analysis of the CBW is presented for a loss-free sensing mechanism of superresolution with enhanced sensitivity. A proof-of-principle demonstration of CBW is also presented.