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Spin squeezing can increase the sensitivity of interferometric measurements of small signals in large spin ensembles beyond the standard quantum limit. In many practical settings, the ideal metrological gain is limited by imperfect readout…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Martin Koppenhöfer , A. A. Clerk

In this paper we describe that the optically pumped frequency standards can have frequency stability beyond the quantum noise limit by detecting the Ramsey resonance through the squeezed light. In this paper we report that instead of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 G. M. Saxena

We propose a hybrid quantum-classical atomic clock protocol where the interrogation of an ensemble of uncorrelated atoms in a spin-coherent state is used to feedback one (or more) spin-squeezed atomic ensembles toward their optimal phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Luca Pezzè , Augusto Smerzi

We analyze the creation of spin squeezed atomic ensembles by simultaneous dispersive interactions with several optical frequencies. A judicious choice of optical parameters enables optimization of an interferometric detection scheme that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-14 M. Saffman , D. Oblak , J. Appel , E. S. Polzik

Spin-squeezed states constitute a valuable entanglement resource capable of surpassing the standard quantum limit (SQL). However, spin-squeezed states only enable sub-SQL uncertainty within a narrow parametric window near some specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jinye Wei , Jungeng Zhou , Yi Shen , Jiahao Huang , Chaohong Lee

We consider entanglement-assisted frequency estimation by Ramsey interferometry, in the presence of dephasing noise from spatiotemporally correlated environments.By working in the widely employed local estimation regime, we show that even…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Francisco Riberi , Gerardo Paz-Silva , Lorenza Viola

Quantum entanglement is a powerful quantum resource for enhancing measurement precision beyond classical limit. % Here we propose an entanglement-enhanced symmetry-protected destructive many-body Ramsey interferometry for precise parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Sijie Chen , Jiahao Huang , Min Zhuang , Chaohong Lee

We analyze the collective spin noise in interacting spin systems. General expressions are derived for the short time behaviour of spin systems with general spin-spin interactions, and we suggest optimum experimental conditions for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xiaoguang Wang , Anders S. Sorensen , Klaus Molmer

A central feature of quantum metrology is the possibility of Heisenberg scaling, a quadratic improvement over the limits of classical statistics. This scaling, however, is notoriously fragile to noise. While for some noise types it can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Giulio Chiribella , Xiaobin Zhao

We propose a robust approach to spin squeezing with local interactions that approaches the Heisenberg limit of phase sensitivity. To generate the requisite entanglement, we generalize the paradigmatic two-axis countertwisting Hamiltonian --…

Entanglement has been proposed as a means to improve the sensitivity of sensing weak signals. While the degree of this quantum advantage is well understood in noiseless settings, the situation is more complex under realistic conditions,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Noah Kaufmann , Kasper H. Nielsen , Eva M. González-Ruiz , Anders S. Sørensen

We show that squeezing is a crucial resource for interferometers based on the spatial separation of ultra-cold interacting matter. Atomic interactions lead to a general limitation for the precision of these atom interferometers, which can…

We address a phase estimation scheme using Gaussian states in the presence of non-Gaussian phase noise. At variance with previous analysis, we analyze situations in which the noise occurs before encoding phase information. In particular, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Giacomo Carrara , Marco G. Genoni , Simone Cialdi , Matteo G. A. Paris , Stefano Olivares

Balancing high sensitivity with a broad dynamic range is a fundamental challenge in measurement science, as improving one often compromises the other. While traditional quantum metrology has prioritized enhancing local sensitivity, a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Qi Liu , Ming Xue , Matthew Radzihovsky , Xinwei Li , Denis V. Vasilyev , Ling-Na Wu , Vladan Vuletić

Quantum entanglement has the potential to revolutionize the entire field of interferometric sensing by providing many orders of magnitude improvement in interferometer sensitivity. The quantum-entangled particle interferometer approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kishore T. Kapale , Leo D. Didomenico , Hwang Lee , Pieter Kok , Jonathan P. Dowling

We discuss quantum variational optimization of Ramsey interferometry with ensembles of $N$ entangled atoms, and its application to atomic clocks based on a Bayesian approach to phase estimation. We identify best input states and generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Raphael Kaubruegger , Denis V. Vasilyev , Marius Schulte , Klemens Hammerer , Peter Zoller

A new class of atomic interferences using ultra-narrow optical transitions are pushing quantum engineering control to a very high level of precision for a next generation of sensors and quantum gate operations. In such context, we propose a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 T. Zanon-Willette , D. Wilkowski , R. Lefevre , A. V. Taichenachev , V. I. Yudin

We obtain a lower bound on the sum of two orthogonal spin component variances in a plane. This gives a novel planar uncertainty relation which holds even when the Heisenberg relation is not useful. We investigate the asymptotic, large $J$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-09 Q. Y. He , Shi-Guo Peng , P. D. Drummond , M. D. Reid

Squeezing of collective atomic spins has been shown to improve the sensitivity of atomic clocks and magnetometers to levels significantly below the standard quantum limit. In most cases the requisite atom-atom entanglement has been…

We show an explicit $N$-qubit protocol involving one-axis-twisted spin squeezed states, that allows for simultaneous phase and dephasing strength estimation with precision that asymptotically matches fundamental quantum metrological bounds.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Arkadiusz Kobus , Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański