Enhancing sensitivity of an atom interferometer to the Heisenberg limit using increased quantum noise (Conference Presentation)

Selim M. Shahriar

doi:10.1117/12.2514791

5 March 2019 Enhancing sensitivity of an atom interferometer to the Heisenberg limit using increased quantum noise (Conference Presentation)

Selim M. Shahriar

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Proceedings Volume 10934, Optical, Opto-Atomic, and Entanglement-Enhanced Precision Metrology; 109342O (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2514791
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2019, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

In a conventional atomic interferometer employing N atoms, the phase sensitivity is at the standard quantum limit: 1/√N. Using spin-squeezing, the sensitivity can be increased, either by lowering the quantum noise or via phase amplification, or a combination thereof. Here, we show how to increase the sensitivity, to the Heisenberg limit of 1/N, while increasing the quantum noise by √N, thereby suppressing by the same factor the effect of excess noise. The proposed protocol makes use of a Schroedinger Cat (SC) state representing a mesoscopic superposition of two collective states of N atoms, behaving as a single entity with an N-fold increase in Compton frequency. The resulting N-fold phase magnification is revealed by using atomic state detection instead of collective state detection

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Selim M. Shahriar "Enhancing sensitivity of an atom interferometer to the Heisenberg limit using increased quantum noise (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10934, Optical, Opto-Atomic, and Entanglement-Enhanced Precision Metrology, 109342O (5 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2514791

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