149 research outputs found
Optical cavities as amplitude filters for squeezed fields
We explore the use of Fabry-P\'erot cavities as high-pass filters for
squeezed light, and show that they can increase the sensitivity of
interferometric gravitational-wave detectors without the need for long
(kilometer scale) filter cavities. We derive the parameters for the filters,
and analyze the performance of several possible cavity configurations in the
context of a future gravitational-wave interferometer with squeezed light
(vacuum) injected into the output port.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figure
New Photodetection Method Using Unbalanced Sidebands for Squeezed Quantum Noise in Gravitational Wave Interferometer
Homodyne detection is one of the ways to circumvent the standard quantum
limit for a gravitational wave detector. In this paper it will be shown that
the same quantum-non-demolition effect using homodyne detection can be realized
by heterodyne detection with unbalanced RF sidebands. Furthermore, a broadband
quantum-non-demolition readout scheme can also be realized by the unbalanced
sideband detection.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure
Conditions for compatibility of quantum state assignments
Suppose N parties describe the state of a quantum system by N possibly
different density operators. These N state assignments represent the beliefs of
the parties about the system. We examine conditions for determining whether the
N state assignments are compatible. We distinguish two kinds of procedures for
assessing compatibility, the first based on the compatibility of the prior
beliefs on which the N state assignments are based and the second based on the
compatibility of predictive measurement probabilities they define. The first
procedure leads to a compatibility criterion proposed by Brun, Finkelstein, and
Mermin [BFM, Phys. Rev. A 65, 032315 (2002)]. The second procedure leads to a
hierarchy of measurement-based compatibility criteria which is fundamentally
different from the corresponding classical situation. Quantum mechanically none
of the measurement-based compatibility criteria is equivalent to the BFM
criterion.Comment: REVTEX 4, 19 pages, 1 postscript figur
Equivalent efficiency of a simulated photon-number detector
Homodyne detection is considered as a way to improve the efficiency of
communication near the single-photon level. The current lack of commercially
available {\it infrared} photon-number detectors significantly reduces the
mutual information accessible in such a communication channel. We consider
simulating direct detection via homodyne detection. We find that our particular
simulated direct detection strategy could provide limited improvement in the
classical information transfer. However, we argue that homodyne detectors (and
a polynomial number of linear optical elements) cannot simulate photocounters
arbitrarily well, since otherwise the exponential gap between quantum and
classical computers would vanish.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Higher-order properties and Bell-inequality violation for the three-mode enhanced squeezed state
By extending the usual two-mode squeezing operator to the three-mode squeezing operator , we
obtain the corresponding three-mode squeezed coherent state. The state's
higher-order properties, such as higher-order squeezing and higher-order
sub-Possonian photon statistics, are investigated. It is found that the new
squeezed state not only can be squeezed to all even orders but also exhibits
squeezing enhancement comparing with the usual cases. In addition, we examine
the violation of Bell-inequality for the three-mode squeezed states by using
the formalism of Wigner representation
An analysis of a QND speed-meter interferometer
In the quest to develop viable designs for third-generation optical
interferometric gravitational-wave detectors (e.g. LIGO-III and EURO), one
strategy is to monitor the relative momentum or speed of the test-mass mirrors,
rather than monitoring their relative position. This paper describes and
analyzes the most straightforward design for a {\it speed meter interferometer}
that accomplishes this -- a design (due to Braginsky, Gorodetsky, Khalili and
Thorne) that is analogous to a microwave-cavity speed meter conceived by
Braginsky and Khalili. A mathematical mapping between the microwave speed meter
and the optical interferometric speed meter is developed and is used to show
(in accord with the speed being a Quantum Nondemolition [QND] observable) that
{\it in principle} the interferometric speed meter can beat the
gravitational-wave standard quantum limit (SQL) by an arbitrarily large amount,
over an arbitrarily wide range of frequencies, and can do so without the use of
squeezed vacuum or any auxiliary filter cavities at the interferometer's input
or output. However, {\it in practice}, to reach or beat the SQL, this specific
speed meter requires exorbitantly high input light power. The physical reason
for this is explored, along with other issues such as constraints on
performance due to optical dissipation. This analysis forms a foundation for
ongoing attempts to develop a more practical variant of an interferometric
speed meter and to combine the speed meter concept with other ideas to yield a
promising LIGO-III/EURO interferometer design that entails low laser power.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures; corrected formula and some values describing
power requirement
Quantum Fluctuations of Radiation Pressure
Quantum fluctuations of electromagnetic radiation pressure are discussed. We
use an approach based on the quantum stress tensor to calculate the
fluctuations in velocity and position of a mirror subjected to electromagnetic
radiation. Our approach reveals that radiation pressure fluctuations are due to
a cross term between vacuum and state dependent terms in a stress tensor
operator product. Thus observation of these fluctuations would entail
experimental confirmation of this cross term. We first analyze the pressure
fluctuations on a single, perfectly reflecting mirror, and then study the case
of an interferometer. This involves a study of the effects of multiple bounces
in one arm, as well as the correlations of the pressure fluctuations between
arms of the interferometer. In all cases, our results are consistent with those
previously obtained by Caves using different mehods.Comment: 23 pages, 3 figures, RevTe
The noise in gravitational-wave detectors and other classical-force measurements is not influenced by test-mass quantization
It is shown that photon shot noise and radiation-pressure back-action noise
are the sole forms of quantum noise in interferometric gravitational wave
detectors that operate near or below the standard quantum limit, if one filters
the interferometer output appropriately. No additional noise arises from the
test masses' initial quantum state or from reduction of the test-mass state due
to measurement of the interferometer output or from the uncertainty principle
associated with the test-mass state. Two features of interferometers are
central to these conclusions: (i) The interferometer output (the photon number
flux N(t) entering the final photodetector) commutes with itself at different
times in the Heisenberg Picture, [N(t), N(t')] = 0, and thus can be regarded as
classical. (ii) This number flux is linear in the test-mass initial position
and momentum operators x_o and p_o, and those operators influence the measured
photon flux N(t) in manners that can easily be removed by filtering -- e.g., in
most interferometers, by discarding data near the test masses' 1 Hz swinging
freqency. The test-mass operators x_o and p_o contained in the unfiltered
output N(t) make a nonzero contribution to the commutator [N(t), N(t')]. That
contribution is cancelled by a nonzero commutation of the photon shot noise and
radiation-pressure noise, which also are contained in N(t). This cancellation
of commutators is responsible for the fact that it is possible to derive an
interferometer's standard quantum limit from test-mass considerations, and
independently from photon-noise considerations. These conclusions are true for
a far wider class of measurements than just gravitational-wave interferometers.
To elucidate them, this paper presents a series of idealized thought
experiments that are free from the complexities of real measuring systems.Comment: Submitted to Physical Review D; Revtex, no figures, prints to 14
pages. Second Revision 1 December 2002: minor rewording for clarity,
especially in Sec. II.B.3; new footnote 3 and passages before Eq. (2.35) and
at end of Sec. III.B.
Parameter estimation with mixed quantum states
We consider quantum enhanced measurements with initially mixed states. We
show very generally that for any linear propagation of the initial state that
depends smoothly on the parameter to be estimated, the sensitivity is bound by
the maximal sensitivity that can be achieved for any of the pure states from
which the initial density matrix is mixed. This provides a very general proof
that purely classical correlations cannot improve the sensitivity of parameter
estimation schemes in quantum enhanced measurement schemes.Comment: 6 page
Quantum limits on phase-shift detection using multimode interferometers
Fundamental phase-shift detection properties of optical multimode
interferometers are analyzed. Limits on perfectly distinguishable phase shifts
are derived for general quantum states of a given average energy. In contrast
to earlier work, the limits are found to be independent of the number of
interfering modes. However, the reported bounds are consistent with the
Heisenberg limit. A short discussion on the concept of well-defined relative
phase is also included.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, REVTeX, uses epsf.st
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