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Characteristic dips appear in the coherence traces of a probe qubit when dynamical decoupling (DD) is applied in synchrony with the precession of target nuclear spins, forming the basis for nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The…

Dynamical decoupling (DD) is a powerful method for controlling arbitrary open quantum systems. In quantum spin control, DD generally involves a sequence of timed spin flips ($\pi$ rotations) arranged to average out or selectively enhance…

Recently proposed quantum-chaotic sensors achieve quantum enhancements in measurement precision by applying nonlinear control pulses to the dynamics of the quantum sensor while using classical initial states that are easy to prepare. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Jonas Schuff , Lukas J. Fiderer , Daniel Braun

Atomic spin sensors are essential for beyond-the-standard-model exploration, biomagnetic measurement, and quantum navigation. While the traditional DC mode spin-exchange relaxation-free (SERF) comagnetometer achieves ultrahigh sensitivity,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Xiaofei Huang , Kai Wei , Yang Rui , Dinghui Gong , Saixin Zhou , Jie Zheng , Wei Quan

Dynamical decoupling (DD) is a low-overhead method for quantum error suppression. Despite extensive work in DD design, finding pulse sequences that optimally decouple computational qubits on noisy quantum hardware is not well understood. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Christopher Tong , Helena Zhang , Bibek Pokharel

Ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are widely used as AC magnetometers. While such measurements are usually performed using standard (XY) dynamical decoupling (DD) protocols at room temperature, we study the sensitivities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 D. Farfurnik , A. Jarmola , D. Budker , N. Bar-Gill

Dynamical decoupling (DD) is an efficient tool for preserving quantum coherence in solid-state spin systems. However, the imperfections of real pulses can ruin the performance of long DD sequences. We investigate the accumulation and…

High-precision magnetic field measurement is an ubiquitous issue in physics and a critical task in metrology. Generally, magnetic field has DC and AC components and it is hard to extract both DC and AC components simultaneously. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Min Zhuang , Jiahao Huang , Chaohong Lee

We propose a scheme for mixed dynamical decoupling (MDD), where we combine continuous dynamical decoupling with robust sequences of phased pulses. Specifically, we use two fields for decoupling, where the first continuous driving field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Genko T. Genov , Nati Aharon , Fedor Jelezko , Alex Retzker

We study the dephasing-assisted precision of parameter estimation (PPE) enhancement in atom interferometer under dynamical decoupling (DD) pulses. Through calculating spin squeezing (SS) and quantum Fisher information (QFI), we find that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Qing-Shou Tan , Yixiao Huang , Le-Man Kuang , Xiaoguang Wang

We demonstrate the use of dynamic decoupling techniques to extend the coherence time of a single memory qubit by nearly two orders of magnitude. By extending the Hahn spin-echo technique to correct for unknown, arbitrary polynomial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-10 David J. Szwer , Simon C. Webster , Andrew M. Steane , David M. Lucas

Phase sensing with entangled multiqubit states in the presence of noise is a central theme of modern quantum metrology. The present work investigates Dicke state superposition probes for quantum phase sensing under parameter encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Sudha , B. N. Karthik , K. S. Akhilesh , A. R. Usha Devi

Entanglement plays a crucial role in proposals for quantum metrology, yet demonstrating quantum enhancement in sensing with sustained spin entanglement remains a challenging endeavor. Here, we combine optical pumping and continuous quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Junlei Duan , Zhiwei Hu , Xingda Lu , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia , Klaus Mølmer , Yanhong Xiao

A challenge in precision measurement with squeezed spin state arises from the spin dephasing due to stray magnetic fields. To suppress such environmental noises, we employ a continuous driving protocol, rotary echo, to enhance the spin…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-12-01 Jun Zhang , Yingying Han , Peng Xu , Wenxian Zhang

Conventional optical coherent receivers capture the full electrical field, including amplitude and phase, of a signal waveform by measuring its interference against a stable continuous-wave local oscillator (LO). In optical coherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Haoshuo Chen , Nicolas K. Fontaine , Joan M. Gene , Roland Ryf , David T. Neilson , Gregory Raybon

A new measurement of the neutron EDM, using Ramsey's method of separated oscillatory fields, is in preparation at the new high intensity source of ultra-cold neutrons (UCN) at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland (PSI). The…

We continuously observe dynamical decoupling in a spin-1 quantum gas using a weak optical measurement of spin precession. Continuous dynamical decoupling aims to dramatically modify the character and energy spectrum of spin states to render…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-01-24 R. P. Anderson , M. J. Kewming , L. D. Turner

The loss of quantum information due to interaction with external degrees of freedom, which is known as decoherence, remains one of the main obstacles for large-scale implementations of quantum computing. Accordingly, different measures are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-13 Gonzalo A. Alvarez , Alexandre M. Souza , Dieter Suter

Non-classical resources enable measurements to achieve a precision that exceeds the limits predicted by the central limit theorem. However, environmental noise arising from system-environment interactions severely limits the performance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 Bakmou Lahcen , Ke Zeng , Yu Jiang , Kok Chuan Tan

One approach to maintaining phase coherence of qubits through dynamical decoupling consists of applying a sequence of Hahn spin-echo pulses. Recent studies have shown that, in certain noise environments, judicious choice of the delay times…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-24 Hermann Uys , Michael J. Biercuk , John J. Bollinger