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Measurement of minuscule forces and displacements with ever greater precision encounters a limit imposed by a pillar of quantum mechanics: the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. A limit to the precision with which the position of an object…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Haocun Yu , L. McCuller , M. Tse , L. Barsotti , N. Mavalvala , J. Betzwieser , C. D. Blair , S. E. Dwyer , A. Effler , M. Evans , A. Fernandez-Galiana , P. Fritschel , V. V. Frolov , N. Kijbunchoo , F. Matichard , D. E. McClelland , T. McRae , A. Mullavey , D. Sigg , B. J. J. Slagmolen , C. Whittle , A. Buikema , Y. Chen , T. R. Corbitt , R. Schnabel , R. Abbott , C. Adams , R. X. Adhikari , A. Ananyeva , S. Appert , K. Arai , J. S. Areeda , Y. Asali , S. M. Aston , C. Austin , A. M. Baer , M. Ball , S. W. Ballmer , S. Banagiri , D. Barker , J. Bartlett , B. K. Berger , D. Bhattacharjee , G. Billingsley , S. Biscans , R. M. Blair , N. Bode , P. Booker , R. Bork , A. Bramley , A. F. Brooks , D. D. Brown , C. Cahillane , K. C. Cannon , X. Chen , A. A. Ciobanu , F. Clara , S. J. Cooper , K. R. Corley , S. T. Countryman , P. B. Covas , D. C. Coyne , L. E. H. Datrier , D. Davis , C. Di Fronzo , K. L. Dooley , J. C. Driggers , P. Dupej , T. Etzel , T. M. Evans , J. Feicht , P. Fulda , M. Fyffe , J. A. Giaime , K. D. Giardina , P. Godwin , E. Goetz , S. Gras , C. Gray , R. Gray , A. C. Green , Anchal Gupta , E. K. Gustafson , R. Gustafson , J. Hanks , J. Hanson , T. Hardwick , R. K. Hasskew , M. C. Heintze , A. F. Helmling-Cornell , N. A. Holland , J. D. Jones , S. Kandhasamy , S. Karki , M. Kasprzack , K. Kawabe , P. J. King , J. S. Kissel , Rahul Kumar , M. Landry , B. B. Lane , B. Lantz , M. Laxen , Y. K. Lecoeuche , J. Leviton , J. Liu , M. Lormand , A. P. Lundgren , R. Macas , M. MacInnis , D. M. Macleod , G. L. Mansell , S. Márka , Z. Márka , D. V. Martynov , K. Mason , T. J. Massinger , R. McCarthy , S. McCormick , J. McIver , G. Mendell , K. Merfeld , E. L. Merilh , F. Meylahn , T. Mistry , R. Mittleman , G. Moreno , C. M. Mow-Lowry , S. Mozzon , T. J. N. Nelson , P. Nguyen , L. K. Nuttall , J. Oberling , Richard J. Oram , C. Osthelder , D. J. Ottaway , H. Overmier , J. R. Palamos , W. Parker , E. Payne , A. Pele , C. J. Perez , M. Pirello , H. Radkins , K. E. Ramirez , J. W. Richardson , K. Riles , N. A. Robertson , J. G. Rollins , C. L. Romel , J. H. Romie , M. P. Ross , K. Ryan , T. Sadecki , E. J. Sanchez , L. E. Sanchez , T. R. Saravanan , R. L. Savage , D. Schaetzl , R. M. S. Schofield , E. Schwartz , D. Sellers , T. Shaffer , J. R. Smith , S. Soni , B. Sorazu , A. P. Spencer , K. A. Strain , L. Sun , M. J. Szczepańczyk , M. Thomas , P. Thomas , K. A. Thorne , K. Toland , C. I. Torrie , G. Traylor , A. L. Urban , G. Vajente , G. Valdes , D. C. Vander-Hyde , P. J. Veitch , K. Venkateswara , G. Venugopalan , A. D. Viets , T. Vo , C. Vorvick , M. Wade , R. L. Ward , J. Warner , B. Weaver , R. Weiss , B. Willke , C. C. Wipf , L. Xiao , H. Yamamoto , Hang Yu , L. Zhang , M. E. Zucker , J. Zweizig

It is often said that measuring a system's position must disturb the complementary property, momentum, by some minimum amount due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Using a "weak-measurement", this disturbance can be reduced. One…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 G. S. Thekkadath , F. Hufnagel , J. S. Lundeen

One of the formulations of Heisenberg uncertainty principle, concerning so-called measurement uncertainty, states that the measurement of one observable modifies the statistics of the other. Here, we derive such a measurement uncertainty…

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that the product of the noise in a position measurement and the momentum disturbance caused by that measurement should be no less than the limit set by Planck's constant, hbar/2, as demonstrated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masanao Ozawa

Precision measurements of space and time, like those made by the detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), are often confronted with fundamental limitations imposed by quantum mechanics. The Heisenberg…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Wenxuan Jia , Victoria Xu , Kevin Kuns , Masayuki Nakano , Lisa Barsotti , Matthew Evans , Nergis Mavalvala , Rich Abbott , Ibrahim Abouelfettouh , Rana Adhikari , Alena Ananyeva , Stephen Appert , Koji Arai , Naoki Aritomi , Stuart Aston , Matthew Ball , Stefan Ballmer , David Barker , Beverly Berger , Joseph Betzwieser , Dripta Bhattacharjee , Garilynn Billingsley , Nina Bode , Edgard Bonilla , Vladimir Bossilkov , Adam Branch , Aidan Brooks , Daniel Brown , John Bryant , Craig Cahillane , Huy-tuong Cao , Elenna Capote , Yanbei Chen , Filiberto Clara , Josh Collins , Camilla Compton , Robert Cottingham , Dennis Coyne , Ryan Crouch , Janos Csizmazia , Torrey Cullen , Louis Dartez , Nicholas Demos , Ezekiel Dohmen , Jenne Driggers , Sheila Dwyer , Anamaria Effler , Aldo Ejlli , Todd Etzel , Jon Feicht , Raymond Frey , William Frischhertz , Peter Fritschel , Valery Frolov , Paul Fulda , Michael Fyffe , Dhruva Ganapathy , Bubba Gateley , Joe Giaime , Dwayne Giardina , Jane Glanzer , Evan Goetz , Aaron Jones , Slawomir Gras , Corey Gray , Don Griffith , Hartmut Grote , Tyler Guidry , Evan Hall , Jonathan Hanks , Joe Hanson , Matthew Heintze , Adrian Helmling-cornell , Hsiang-yu Huang , Yuki Inoue , Alasdair James , Austin Jennings , Srinath Karat , Marie Kasprzack , Keita Kawabe , Nutsinee Kijbunchoo , Jeffrey Kissel , Antonios Kontos , Rahul Kumar , Michael Landry , Brian Lantz , Michael Laxen , Kyung-ha Lee , Madeline Lesovsky , Francisco Llamas , Marc Lormand , Hudsonalexander Loughlin , Ronaldas Macas , Myron Macinnis , Camille Makarem , Benjaminrobert Mannix , Georgia Mansell , Rodica Martin , Nyath Maxwell , Garrett Mccarrol , Richard Mccarthy , David Mcclelland , Scott Mccormick , Lee Mcculler , Terry Mcrae , Fernando Mera , Edmond Merilh , Fabian Meylahn , Richard Mittleman , Dan Moraru , Gerardo Moreno , Matthew Mould , Adam Mullavey , Timothy Nelson , Ansel Neunzert , Jason Oberling , Timothy Ohanlon , Charles Osthelder , David Ottaway , Harry Overmier , William Parker , Arnaud Pele , Huyen Pham , Marc Pirello , Volker Quetschke , Karla Ramirez , Jonathan Reyes , Jonathan Richardson , Mitchell Robinson , Jameson Rollins , Janeen Romie , Michael Ross , Travis Sadecki , Anthony Sanchez , Eduardo Sanchez , Luis Sanchez , Richard Savage , Dean Schaetzl , Mitchell Schiworski , Roman Schnabel , Robert Schofield , Eyal Schwartz , Danny Sellers , Thomas Shaffer , Ryan Short , Daniel Sigg , Bram Slagmolen , Siddharth Soni , Ling Sun , David Tanner , Michael Thomas , Patrick Thomas , Keith Thorne , Calum Torrie , Gary Traylor , Gabriele Vajente , Jordan Vanosky , Alberto Vecchio , Peter Veitch , Ajay Vibhute , Erik Vonreis , Jim Warner , Betsy Weaver , Rainer Weiss , Chris Whittle , Benno Willke , Christopher Wipf , Hiro Yamamoto , Haocun Yu , Liyuan Zhang , Michael Zucker

Leveraging quantum effects in metrology such as entanglement and coherence allows one to measure parameters with enhanced sensitivity. However, time-dependent noise can disrupt such Heisenberg-limited amplification. We propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Yulong Dong , Jonathan Gross , Murphy Yuezhen Niu

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, coherence and Bell nonlocality have been individually examined through many experiments. In this Letter, we systematically characterize all of this quantumness in a unified manner. We first construct…

Quantum instruments derived from composite systems allow greater measurement precision than their classical counterparts due to coherences maintained between N components; spins, atoms or photons. Decoherence that plagues real-world devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 Sergey I. Knysh , Edward H. Chen , Gabriel A. Durkin

Learning the Hamiltonian governing a quantum system is a central task in quantum metrology, sensing, and device characterization. Existing Heisenberg-limited Hamiltonian learning protocols either require multi-qubit operations that are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Shrigyan Brahmachari , Shuchen Zhu , Iman Marvian , Yu Tong

Quantum metrology aims to enhance measurement precision beyond the classical limit by leveraging quantum resources. Unlike multi-parameter dynamic quantum metrology, many questions regarding multiparameter quantum metrology at thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Zhu Cao

We consider quantum metrology in noisy environments, where the effect of noise and decoherence limits the achievable gain in precision by quantum entanglement. We show that by using tools from quantum error-correction this limitation can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-12 W. Dür , M. Skotiniotis , F. Fröwis , B. Kraus

Precision measurements of frequency are critical to accurate timekeeping, and are fundamentally limited by quantum measurement uncertainties. While for time-independent quantum Hamiltonians, the uncertainty of any parameter scales at best…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 M. Naghiloo , A. N. Jordan , K. W. Murch

Quantum probing consists of suitably exploiting a simple, small, and controllable quantum system to characterize a larger and more complex system. Here, we address the estimation of the cutoff frequency of the Ohmic spectral density of a…

One unique feature of quantum mechanics is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which states that the outcomes of two incompatible measurements cannot simultaneously achieve arbitrary precision. In an information-theoretic context of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Jian Xing , Yu-Ran Zhang , Shang Liu , Yan-Chun Chang , Jie-Dong Yue , Heng Fan , Xin-Yu Pan

High-precision frequency estimation is an ubiquitous issue in fundamental physics and a critical task in spectroscopy. Here, we propose a quantum Ramsey interferometry to realize high-precision frequency estimation in spin-1 Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Min Zhuang , Hongtao Huo , Yuxiang Qiu , Wenjie Liu , Jiahao Huang , Chaohong Lee

One of the formulations of Heisenberg uncertainty principle, concerning so-called measurement uncertainty, states that the measurement of one observable modifies the statistics of the other. Here, we derive such a measurement uncertainty…

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle imposes a fundamental restriction in quantum mechanics, stipulating that measuring one observable completely erases the information on its conjugate one, thereby preventing simultaneous measurements of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Muchun Yang , Yibin Huang , D. L. Zhou