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We present an enhanced entangled quantum clock protocol that incorporates a quantum phase estimation algorithm to directly estimate proper-time differences as an unknown phase. By employing highly entangled multi-clock states, the…

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The preparation of large, low-entropy, highly coherent ensembles of identical quantum systems is foundational for many studies in quantum metrology, simulation, and information. Here, we realize these features by leveraging the favorable…

The coherent population trapping (CPT) atomic clock is very promising for use in next-generation spaceborne applications owing to its compactness and high performance. In this paper, we propose and implement a CPT atomic clock based on the…

The Heisenberg time-energy relation prevents determination of an atomic transition to better than the inverse of the measurement time. The relation generally applies to frequency estimation of a near-resonant field [1-3], since information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Liam P. McGuinness

We experimentally demonstrated that the stability of an atomic clock improves at fastest rate $\tau^{-1}$ (where $\tau$ is the averaging time) when the phase of a local oscillator is genuinely compared to the continuous phase of many atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 Nobuyasu Shiga , Michiaki Mizuno , Kohta Kido , Piyaphat Phoonthong , Kunihiro Okada

The fidelity susceptibility serves as a universal probe for quantum phase transitions, offering an order-parameter-free metric that captures ground-state sensitivity to Hamiltonian perturbations and exhibits critical scaling. Classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yukun Zhang , Xiao Yuan

Precise and autonomous clocks are of fundamental interest and central importance to both foundational studies and practical applications. Here, we construct a blueprint for a quantum clock governed by time-independent interactions. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Chad Nelmes , Emanuel Schwarzhans , Tony Apollaro , Timothy Spiller , Irene D'Amico

We demonstrate how to construct and operate a simple and affordable experimental apparatus, appropriate for an undergraduate setting, in order to produce and study coherent effects in atomic vapor and to investigate their applications for…

Physics Education · Physics 2010-09-29 Nathan Belcher , Eugeniy E. Mikhailov , Irina Novikova

Recent developments in frequency metrology and optical clocks have been based on electronic transitions in atoms and singly charged ions as references. These systems have enabled relative frequency uncertainties at a level of a few parts in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 M. G. Kozlov , M. S. Safronova , J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia , P. O. Schmidt

Precise temperature measurements on systems of few ultracold atoms is of paramount importance in quantum technologies, but can be very resource-intensive. Here, we put forward an adaptive Bayesian framework that substantially boosts the…

We investigate the limits of thermometry using quantum probes at thermal equilibrium within the Bayesian approach. We consider the possibility of engineering interactions between the probes in order to enhance their sensitivity, as well as…

Quantum algorithms such as dynamical decoupling can be used to improve the sensitivity of a quantum sensor to a signal while suppressing sensitivity to noise. Atomic clocks are among the most sensitive quantum sensors, with recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 M. H. Zaheer , N. J. Matjelo , D. B. Hume , M. S. Safronova , D. R. Leibrandt

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 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

The performance of quantum gate operations is experimentally determined by how correct operational parameters can be determined and set, and how stable these parameters can be maintained. In addition, gates acting on different sets of…

We investigate systematic errors associated with a common modulation technique used for phase sensitive detection of a coherent population trapping (CPT) resonance. In particular, we show that modification of the CPT resonance lineshape due…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. F. Phillips , I. Novikova , C. Y. -T. Wang , M. Crescimanno , R. L. Walsworth

In trapped-atom clocks, the primary source of decoherence is often the phase noise of the oscillator. For this case, we derive theoretical performance gains by combining several atomic ensembles. For example, M ensembles of N atoms can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-15 T. Rosenband , D. R. Leibrandt

Atomic clocks play a crucial role in timekeeping, communications, and navigation systems. Recent efforts enabled by heterogeneous MEMS integration have led to the commercial introduction of Chip-Scale Atomic Clocks (CSAC) with a volume of…

Coherent population trapping (CPT) is a multi-level quantum coherence phenomenon of promising applications in atomic clocks and magnetometers. Particularly, multi-pulse CPT-Ramsey interferometry is a powerful tool for improving the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Ruihuan Fang , Chengyin Han , Bo Lu , Jiahao Huang , Chaohong Lee

High-precision frequency estimation is an ubiquitous issue in fundamental physics and a critical task in spectroscopy. Here, we propose a quantum Ramsey interferometry to realize high-precision frequency estimation in spin-1 Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Min Zhuang , Hongtao Huo , Yuxiang Qiu , Wenjie Liu , Jiahao Huang , Chaohong Lee