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We propose a physical analogy between finding the solution of an ordinary differential equation (ODE) and a $N$ particle problem in statistical mechanics. It uses the fact that the solution of an ODE is equivalent to obtain the minimum of a…

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Stochastic master equations are often used to describe conditional spin squeezing of atomic ensemble, but are limited so far to the systems with few atoms due to the exponentially increased Hilbert space. In this article, we present an…

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