Joint estimation of phase and phase diffusion for quantum metrology

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Vidrighin, Mihai D ^a,b   Donati, Gaia ^b   Genoni, Marco G ^a,c   Jin, Xian Min ^b,d   Kolthammer, W Steven ^b   Kim, M S ^a   Datta, Animesh ^b   Barbieri, Marco ^b   Walmsley, Ian A ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHASE TRANSITION; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; INTERFEROMETRY; JOINT; JOINT ESTIMATION; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PHASE DIFFUSION; PHASE SHIFT; QUANTUM METROLOGY;

EID: 84898669909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4532     Document Type: Article

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