Quantum metrology with two-mode squeezed vacuum: parity detection beats the Heisenberg limit

Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Mar 12;104(10):103602. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.103602. Epub 2010 Mar 12.

Abstract

We study the sensitivity and resolution of phase measurement in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with two-mode squeezed vacuum (n photons on average). We show that superresolution and sub-Heisenberg sensitivity is obtained with parity detection. In particular, in our setup, dependence of the signal on the phase evolves n times faster than in traditional schemes, and uncertainty in the phase estimation is better than 1/n, and we saturate the quantum Cramer-Rao bound.