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Quantum metrology utilizes entanglement for improving the sensitivity of measurements. Up to now the focus has been on the measurement of just one out of two non-commuting observables. Here we demonstrate a laser interferometer that…

We use a reservoir engineering technique based on two-tone driving to generate and stabilize a quantum squeezed state of a micron-scale mechanical oscillator in a microwave optomechanical system. Using an independent backaction evading…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 C. U. Lei , A. J. Weinstein , J. Suh , E. E. Wollman , A. Kronwald , F. Marquardt , A. A. Clerk , K. C. Schwab

Quantum enhanced sensing is a powerful technique in which nonclassical states are used to improve the sensitivity of a measurement. For enhanced mechanical displacement sensing, squeezed states of light have been shown to reduce the photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-05 Jeremy B. Clark , Florent Lecocq , Raymond W. Simmonds , José Aumentado , John D. Teufel

We determine the theoretical limits to squeezing-enhanced measurement sensitivity of mechanical motion in a cavity optomechanical system. The motion of a mechanical resonator is transduced onto quadrature fluctuations of a cavity optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Hugo Kerdoncuff , Ulrich B. Hoff , Glen I. Harris , Warwick P. Bowen , Ulrik L. Andersen

Magneto-optical traps are central to atomic and molecular quantum technologies and precision tests of fundamental physics, where both sensitivity and bandwidth scale strongly with atom number and loading rate. We demonstrate that employing…

High precision interferometers are the building blocks of precision metrology and the ultimate interferometric sensitivity is limited by the quantum noise. Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate a compact quantum interferometer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Xiaojie Zuo , Zhihui Yan , Yanni Feng , Jingxu Ma , Xiaojun Jia , Changde Xie , Kunchi Peng

We describe a new approach to spin squeezing based on a double-pass Faraday interaction between an optical probe and an optically dense atomic sample. A quantum eraser is used to remove residual spin-probe entanglement, thereby realizing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Collin M. Trail , Poul S. Jessen , Ivan H. Deutsch

Precision sensing, and in particular high precision magnetometry, is a central goal of research into quantum technologies. For magnetometers, often trade-offs exist between sensitivity, spatial resolution, and frequency range. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 I. Baumgart , J. -M. Cai , A. Retzker , M. B. Plenio , Ch. Wunderlich

Optical magnetometers are currently able to achieve magnetometric sensitivities below 1 fT/Hz^1/2. Although such sensitivities are typically obtained for ultra-low-field measurements, a group of optical magnetometers allows the detection of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Przemyslaw Wlodarczyk , Szymon Pustelny , Jerzy Zachorowski , Marcin Lipinski

The dual-resonant enhancement of mechanical and optical response in cavity optomechanical magnetometers enables precision sensing of magnetic fields. In previous working prototypes of such magnetometers, a cavity optomechanical system is…

A tunable double optomechanically induced transparency (OMIT) with a squeezed field is investigated in a system consisting of an optomechanical cavity coupled to a charged nanomechanical resonator via Coulomb interaction. Such a double OMIT…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-25 Qiong Wang , Jian-Qi Zhang , Peng-Cheng Ma , Chun-Mei Yao , Mang Feng

We investigate the parameter estimation in a magnon-cavity-magnon coupled system. PT symmetrical two magnons system can be formed in the gain magnetic materials by the adiabatic elimination of the cavity field mode. We show that the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-09 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu , An min Wang

We experimentally demonstrate that a squeezed probe optical field can improve the sensitivity of the magnetic field measurements based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation (NMOR) with an amplitude-modulated pump when compared to a coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Jiahui Li , Irina Novikova

The role of entanglement in determining the non-classicality of a given interaction has gained significant traction over the last few years. In particular, as the basis for new experimental proposals to test the quantum nature of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 A. Douglas K. Plato , Dennis Rätzel , Chuanqi Wan

Optically pumped atomic magnetometers (OPMs) offer highly sensitive magnetic measurements using compact hardware, offering new possibilities for practical precision sensors. Double-resonance OPM operation is well suited to unshielded…

We present a single-quadrature feedback scheme able to overcome the conventional 3 dB limit on parametric squeezing. The method is experimentally demonstrated in a micromechanical system based on a cantilever with a magnetic tip. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-08 Andrea Vinante , Paolo Falferi

Optomechanical sensors enable exquisitely sensitive force measurements, with emerging applications across quantum technologies, standards, fundamental science, and engineering. Magnetometry is among the most promising applications, where…

Double resonance optically pumped magnetometry can be used to measure static magnetic fields with high sensitivity by detecting a resonant atomic spin response to a small oscillating field perturbation. Determination of the resonant…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Stuart J. Ingleby , Carolyn O'Dwyer , Paul F. Griffin , Aidan S. Arnold , Erling Riis

Sensing a magnetic field with an atomic magnetometer operated in real time presents significant challenges, primarily due to sensor non-linearity, the presence of noise, and the need for one-shot estimation. To address these challenges, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Julia Amoros-Binefa , Jan Kolodynski

We analyze the conditional quantum state of a mechanical mirror in an optomechanical system subject to continuous measurement, feedback control, and quantum filtering. We identify a parameter regime in which the mirror exhibits momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Ryotaro Fukuzumi , Kosei Hatakeyama , Daisuke Miki , Kazuhiro Yamamoto