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Table 1 Phase sensitivities with various detections and QCRB of an \(\operatorname{SU}(1,1)\) interferometer with different input states

From: Phase sensitivity of an \(\operatorname{SU}(1,1)\) interferometer via product detection

Input states

Product

Intensity

Parity

Homodyne

QCRB

|0〉|0〉

\(1/\kappa ^{1/2}\)

\(1/\kappa ^{1/2}\)

\(1/\kappa ^{1/2}\)

Not available [42]

\(1/\kappa ^{1/2}\)

|α|0〉

\(1/[\kappa (N_{a}+1)]^{1/2}\)

\(\Delta \phi _{\mathrm{onecoh}}^{\mathrm{I}}\)

\(1/[\kappa (N_{a}+1)]^{1/2}\)

\(1/(\kappa N_{a})^{1/2}\)

\(1/[\kappa (2 N_{a}+1) +2N_{a}(N_{\mathrm{PA}}+2)]^{1/2}\)

\(\vert \alpha e^{i\eta _{1}}\rangle \otimes \vert \alpha e^{i\eta _{2}}\rangle \)

\(1/\{2N_{a}[(N_{\mathrm{PA}}+2)(\sqrt{\kappa }+1)+\kappa ]+\kappa \}^{1/2}\)

\(1/(2\kappa N_{a})^{1/2}\)

Ref. [42]

\(\simeq 1/[4\kappa N_{a}]^{1/2}\)

\(1/\{4N_{a}[(N_{\mathrm{PA}}+1)\sqrt{\kappa }+\kappa +1]+\kappa \}^{1/2}\)

|αŜ(r)|0〉

\(1/[\kappa (N_{a}e^{2r}+\cosh r e^{r})]^{1/2}\)

\(\Delta \phi _{\mathrm{cohsqz}}^{\mathrm{I}}\)

\(1/[\kappa (N_{a}e^{2r}+\cosh ^{2}r)]^{1/2}\)

\(1/[\kappa N_{a}e^{2r}]^{1/2}\)

\(1/[2N_{a}(N_{\mathrm{PA}}+2)+N_{\mathrm{PA}}^{2}\sinh ^{2}(2r)/2+\kappa (2N_{a}\cosh r e^{r}+\cosh ^{2} r)]^{1/2}\)

Ŝ(r)|0〉Ŝ(r)|0〉

\(1/[\kappa (2N_{s}+1)]^{1/2}\)

\(\Delta \phi _{\mathrm{twosqz}}^{\mathrm{I}}\)§

\(1/[\kappa (2N_{s}+1)]^{1/2}\)

Not available

\(1/[(1+N_{\mathrm{PA}})^{2}\times \cosh 4r -1]^{1/2}\)

  1. See Section Appendix.
  2. α is set to be real in this line; it is complex elsewhere.
  3. See Section Appendix.
  4. §See Section Appendix.