Data di Pubblicazione:
2020
Citazione:
Noisy Quantum Metrology Enhanced by Continuous Nondemolition Measurement / M.A. . Rossi, F. Albarelli, D. Tamascelli, M.G. Genoni. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 125:20(2020 Nov 12). [10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.200505]
Abstract:
We show that continuous quantum nondemolition (QND) measurement of an atomic ensemble is able to improve the precision of frequency estimation even in the presence of independent dephasing acting on each atom. We numerically simulate the dynamics of an ensemble with up to N=150 atoms initially prepared in a (classical) spin coherent state, and we show that, thanks to the spin squeezing dynamically generated by the measurement, the information obtainable from the continuous photocurrent scales superclassically with respect to the number of atoms N. We provide evidence that such superclassical scaling holds for different values of dephasing and monitoring efficiency. We moreover calculate the extra information obtainable via a final strong measurement on the conditional states generated during the dynamics and show that the corresponding ultimate limit is nearly achieved via a projective measurement of the spin-squeezed collective spin operator. We also briefly discuss the difference between our protocol and standard estimation schemes, where the state preparation time is neglected.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Quantum metrology, nondemolition measurement, continuous measurement
Elenco autori:
M.A. . Rossi, F. Albarelli, D. Tamascelli, M.G. Genoni
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