Tuesday, April 9, 2013

1304.2288 (Johannes Borregaard et al.)

Near Heisenberg limited atomic clocks in the presence of decoherence    [PDF]

Johannes Borregaard, Anders S. Sørensen
The stability of current atomic clocks is limited by the quantum noise of the atoms. To reduce this noise it has been suggested to use entangled atomic ensembles with reduced atomic noise. Potentially this can push the stability all the way to the limit allowed by the Heisenberg uncertainty relation, which is denoted as the Heisenberg limit. In practice, however, entangled states are often more prone to decoherence, which may prevent reaching this performance. Here we present an adaptive measurement protocol that in the presence of a realistic source of decoherence enables us to get near Heisenberg limited stability of atomic clocks using entangled atoms. The protocol may realize the full potential of entanglement for quantum metrology despite the detrimental influence of decoherence.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.2288

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