Distributed Quantum Sensing in a Continuous Variable Entangled Network

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The data represented in Figs. 2 and 3 and Supplementary Fig. 6b are available as Source Data or Supplementary Data. Raw oscilloscope data and data analysis scripts are available at https://doi.org/10.11583/DTU.9988805. All other data that support the plots within this paper and other findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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Acknowledgements

M.C. and J.B. acknowledge support from Villum Fonden via the QMATH Centre of Excellence (grant no. 10059), the European Research Council (ERC grant agreement no. 337603) and from the QuantERA ERA-NET Cofund in Quantum Technologies implemented within the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme (QuantAlgo project) via the Innovation Fund Denmark. X.G., C.R.B., S.I., M.V.L., T.G., J.S.N.-N. and U.L.A. acknowledge support from the Center for Macroscopic Quantum States (bigQ DNRF142). X.G., S.I. and J.S.N.-N. acknowledge support from Villum Fonden via the Young Investigator Programme (grant no. 10119).

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1. Center for Macroscopic Quantum States (bigQ), Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

   Xueshi Guo, Casper R. Breum, Shuro Izumi, Mikkel V. Larsen, Tobias Gehring, Jonas S. Neergaard-Nielsen & Ulrik L. Andersen

2. QMATH, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

   Johannes Borregaard & Matthias Christandl

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J.B., U.L.A., J.S.N.-N., T.G., X.G. and C.R.B. conceived the experiment. X.G., C.R.B. and M.V.L. performed the experiment and analysed the data. J.B., X.G., S.I., M.C. and J.S.N.-N. worked on the theoretical analysis. X.G. wrote the paper with contributions from J.B., C.R.B., S.I., J.S.N.-N. and U.L.A. J.S.N.-N. and U.L.A. supervised the project.

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Extended Data Fig. 1 Experimental Setup.

See Supplementary Sec. II for details. (a) Single mode displaced squeezed state generation at the 3 MHz side band; (b) A proof-of-principle experimental setup for distributed phase sensing with entangled probes. The local oscillator (LO) is used as external phase reference, and the phase shift is introduced by wave plates; (c) The balanced homodyne detection setup corresponding to HD₁ to HD₄ in (b).

Extended Data Fig. 2 Optimal sensitivities and quantum Cramér–Rao bounds (QCRB) for different scenarios.

All calculated with a total efficiency of η = 0.735 as in our experiment. The optimal sensitivity of our separable scheme \(\sigma _s^{opt}\) and entangled scheme \(\sigma _e^{opt}\) are plotted in solid blue and red, respectively. These are derived in the Supplementary Material Section I. The remaining four curves show the QCRBs derived in the Methods section: The optimal QCRB for ϕ _avg sensing with coherent probes (\(\sigma _{coh}^{CR}\), dashed black), the separable scheme with squeezed probes (\(\sigma _s^{CR}\), dashed blue), and the entangled scheme (\(\sigma _e^{CR}\), dashed red), as well as the QCRB for single parameter phase sensing with a squeezed probe (\(\sigma _{sm}^{CR}\), solid green).

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Guo, X., Breum, C.R., Borregaard, J. et al. Distributed quantum sensing in a continuous-variable entangled network. Nat. Phys. 16, 281–284 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0743-x

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• Received: 22 May 2019

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• Published: 23 December 2019

• Issue Date: March 2020

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