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Squeezed spin states have important applications in quantum metrology and sensing. It has been shown by S{\o}rensen and M{\o}lmer [Phys. Rev. A 66, 022314(2002)] that an effective one-axis-twisting interaction can be realized in a cavity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Gang Liu , Ya-Ni Wang , Li-Fen Yan , Nian-Quan Jiang , Wei Xiong , Ming-Feng Wang

Quantum sensors promise revolutionary advances in medical imaging, energy production, mass detection, geodesy, foundational physics research, and a host of other fields. In many sensors, the signal takes the form of a changing qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 M. O. Hecht , Kumar Saurav , Evangelos Vlachos , Daniel A. Lidar , Eli M. Levenson-Falk

We describe a set of measurement protocols for performing non-classicality tests and the verification of entangled superposition states of macroscopic continuous variable systems, such as nanomechanical resonators. Following earlier works,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 Oleg Gittsovich , Tobias Moroder , Ali Asadian , Otfried Gühne , Peter Rabl

Ramsey interferometry is a key technique for precision spectroscopy and to probe the coherence of quantum systems. Typically, an interferometer is constructed using two quantum states and involves a time-dependent interaction with two short…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Chetan Sriram Madasu , Ketan Damji Rathod , Chang Chi Kwong , David Wilkowski

Qudits, with their state space of dimension d > 2, open fascinating experimental prospects. The quantum properties of their states provide new potentialities for quantum information, quantum contextuality, expressions of geometric phases,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-25 Clément Godfrin , Rafik Ballou , Edgar Bonet , Mario Ruben , Svetlana Klyatskaya , Wolfgang Wernsdorfer , Franck Balestro

Current optical atomic clocks do not utilize their resources optimally. In particular, an exponential gain in sensitivity could be achieved if multiple atomic ensembles were to be controlled or read-out individually, even without…

We predict that exploiting spin-orbit coupling in a harmonically trapped spinor quantum gas can lead to scaling of the optimal measurement precision beyond the Heisenberg scaling. We show that quadratic scaling with the number of atoms can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Karol Gietka , Helmut Ritsch

Our work here presents the analytical expressions for a typical Ramsey interferometric sequence for a three- and a five-level system. The analytical expressions are derived starting from the first principals of unitary time evolution…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Anushka Thenuwara , Andrei Sidorov

We propose to use Ramsey interferometry and single-site addressability, available in synthetic matter such as cold atoms or trapped ions, to measure real-space and time resolved spin correlation functions. These correlation functions…

We adopt the Ramsey's method of separated oscillatory fields to study coherences of the mechanical system in an optomechanical resonator. The high resolution Ramsey fringes are observed in the emission optical field, when two pulses…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 Kenan Qu , Chunhua Dong , Hailin Wang , G. S. Agarwal

Every measurement of the population in an uncorrelated ensemble of two-level systems is limited by what is known as the quantum projection noise limit. Here, we present quantum projection noise limited performance of a Ramsey type…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 D. Döring , G. McDonald , J. E. Debs , C. Figl , P. A. Altin , H. -A. Bachor , N. P. Robins , J. D. Close

We investigate theoretically and experimentally a nondestructive interferometric measurement of the state population of an ensemble of laser cooled and trapped atoms. This study is a step towards generation of (pseudo-) spin squeezing of…

We demonstrate that Ramsey spectroscopy can be used to observe Rydberg-dressed interactions. In contrast to many prior proposals, our scheme operates comfortably within experimentally measured lifetimes, and accesses a regime where quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Rick Mukherjee , Thomas C. Killian , Kaden R. A. Hazzard

A general approach is introduced for the efficient simultaneous optimization of pulses that compensate each other' s imperfections within the same scan. This is applied to broadband Ramsey-type experiments, resulting in pulses with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Michael Braun , Steffen J. Glaser

Quantum metrology protocols exploiting ensembles of $N$ two-level systems and Ramsey-style measurements are ubiquitous. However, in many cases excess readout noise severely degrades the measurement sensitivity; in particular in sensors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Martin Koppenhöfer , Peter Groszkowski , Hoi-Kwan Lau , A. A. Clerk

Spin squeezing is a form of entanglement that reshapes the quantum projection noise to improve measurement precision. Here, we provide numerical and analytic evidence for the following conjecture: any Hamiltonian exhibiting finite…

Out-of-equilibrium statistical mechanics is attracting considerable interest due to the recent advances in the control and manipulations of systems at the quantum level. Recently, an interferometric scheme for the detection of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-06 Laura Mazzola , Gabriele De Chiara , Mauro Paternostro

Quantum correlation, such as entanglement and squeezing have shown to improve phase estimation in interferometric setups on one side, and non-interferometric imaging scheme of amplitude object on the other. In the last case, quantum…

Many-body quantum systems can exhibit collective effects that enhance the sensitivity of parameter estimation protocols. An example is provided by resonantly driven two-level atoms subject to collective dissipation, which can display a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Albert Cabot , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

Entanglement can improve the measurement precision of quantum sensors beyond the shot noise limit. Neutral atoms, the basis of some of the most precise and accurate optical clocks and interferometers, do not naturally exhibit all-to-all…