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Quantum entanglement between particles is expected to allow one to perform tasks that would otherwise be impossible. In quantum sensing and metrology, entanglement is often claimed to enable a precision that cannot be attained with the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Liam P. McGuinness

Recently, there have been significant developments in entanglement-based quantum metrology. However, entanglement is fragile against experimental imperfections, and quantum sensing to beat the standard quantum limit in scaling has not yet…

Quantum mechanics allows entanglement enhanced measurements to be performed, but loss remains an obstacle in constructing realistic quantum metrology schemes. However, recent work has revealed that entangled coherent states (ECSs) have the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 P. A. Knott , W. J. Munro , J. A. Dunningham

Entanglement represents an important resource for quantum information processing, but its generation itself requires physical resources that are limited. We propose a scheme for generating a wide class of entangled qudit-type states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-09 S. Ya. Kilin , A. B. Mikhalychev

A major outstanding problem for many quantum clock synchronization protocols is the hidden assumption of the availability of synchronized clocks within the protocol. In general, quantum operations between two parties do not have consistent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Ebubechukwu O. Ilo-Okeke , Louis Tessler , Jonathan P. Dowling , Tim Byrnes

The use of multi-particle entangled states has the potential to drastically increase the sensitivity of atom interferometers and atomic clocks. The Twist-and-Turn (TNT) Hamiltonian can create multi-particle entanglement much more rapidly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Safoura S. Mirkhalaf , Samuel P. Nolan , Simon A. Haine

Rapidly growing capabilities of quantum simulators to probe quantum many-body phenomena require new methods to characterize increasingly complex states. We present a protocol that constrains quantum states by experimentally measured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Henry Froland , Torsten V. Zache , Robert Ott , Niklas Mueller

We propose a state preparation protocol based on sequential measurements of a central spin coupled with a spin ensemble, and investigate the usefulness of the generated multi-spin states for quantum enhanced metrology. Our protocol is shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 T. B. Lantaño , Dayou Yang , K. M. R. Audenaert , S. F. Huelga , M. B. Plenio

The generation of long-lived entanglement on an optical clock transition is a key requirement to unlocking the promise of quantum metrology. Arrays of neutral atoms constitute a capable quantum platform for accessing such physics, where…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Nathan Schine , Aaron W. Young , William J. Eckner , Michael J. Martin , Adam M. Kaufman

We report that entangled pairs of quantum clocks (non-degenerate quantum bits) can be used as a specialized detector for precisely measuring difference of proper-times that each constituent quantum clock experiences. We describe why the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 W. Y. Hwang , D. Ahn , S. W. Hwang , Y. D. Han

Quantum entanglement has been identified as a crucial concept underlying many intriguing phenomena in condensed matter systems, such as topological phases or many-body localization. Recently, instead of considering mere quantifiers of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Niklas Euler , Martin Gärttner

Armed with quantum correlations, quantum sensors in a network have shown the potential to outclass their classical counterparts in distributed sensing tasks such as clock synchronization and reference frame alignment. On the other hand,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Yuxiang Yang , Benjamin Yadin , Zhen-Peng Xu

Recently developed quantum algorithms suggest that quantum computers can solve certain problems and perform certain tasks more efficiently than conventional computers. Among other reasons, this is due to the possibility of creating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rolando D. Somma

Atomic projection noise limits the ultimate precision of all atomic sensors, including clocks, inertial sensors, magnetometers, etc. The independent quantum collapse of $N$ atoms into a definite state (for example spin up or down) leads to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 Kevin C. Cox , Joshua M. Weiner , Graham P. Greve , James K. Thompson

The quantum entanglement enables the precision measurement and frequency metrology beyond the standard quantum limit that is imposed by the quantum projection noise and photon shot noise. Here we propose employing the entangled atoms in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Deshui Yu , Jingbiao Chen , Shougang Zhang

We analyze the effect of realistic noise sources for an atomic clock consisting of a local oscillator that is actively locked to a spin-squeezed (entangled) ensemble of $N$ atoms. We show that the use of entangled states can lead to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Andre , A. S. Sorensen , M. D. Lukin

Hyperentanglement --- simultaneous entanglement between multiple degrees of freedom of two or more systems --- has been used to enhance quantum information tasks such as quantum communication and photonic quantum computing. Here we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 S. P. Walborn , A. H. Pimentel , L. Davidovich , R. L. de Matos Filho

Nonclassical states are essential for optics-based quantum information processing, but their fragility limits their utility for practical scenarios in which loss and noise inevitably degrade, if not destroy, nonclassicality. Exploiting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-25 Zheshen Zhang , Sara Mouradian , Franco N. C. Wong , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Maximally entangled states are a key resource in many quantum communication and computation tasks, and their certification is a crucial element to guarantee the desired functionality. We introduce collective strategies for the efficient,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Jorge Miguel-Ramiro , Ferran Riera-Sàbat , Wolfgang Dür

Precision measurements of optical phases have many applications in science and technology. Entangled multi-photon states have been suggested for performing such measurements with precision that significantly surpasses the shot-noise limit.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Giora Peniakov , Zu-En Su , Ayal Beck , Dan Cogan , Or Amar , David Gershoni