%0 Journal Article %A Rivas Vargas, Ángel %A Luis Aina, Alfredo %T Sub-Heisenberg estimation of non-random phase shifts %D 2012 %@ 1367-2630 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44589 %X We provide evidence that the uncertainty in detection of small and deterministic phase-shift deviations from a working point can be lower than the Heisenberg bound, for a fixed finite mean number of photons. We achieve that by exploiting nonlinearity of estimators and coherence with the vacuum. %~