Scaling laws for precision in quantum interferometry and the bifurcation landscape of the optimal state

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Knysh, Sergey ^a   Smelyanskiy, Vadim N ^a   Durkin, Gabriel A ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT FACTORS; FOCK STATE; LOCAL BIFURCATIONS; OPTIMAL STATE; PHOTON NUMBERS; PRECISION IMPROVEMENT; QUANTUM INTERFEROMETRY; TWO-CHANNEL;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 79952087358     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.021804     Document Type: Article

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