Quantum-enhanced sensing on optical transitions through finite-range interactions

Johannes Franke, Sean R. Muleady, Raphael Kaubruegger, Florian Kranzl, Rainer Blatt, Ana Maria Rey (), Manoj K. Joshi and Christian F. Roos ()
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Johannes Franke: Universität Innsbruck
Sean R. Muleady: University of Colorado
Raphael Kaubruegger: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Florian Kranzl: Universität Innsbruck
Rainer Blatt: Universität Innsbruck
Ana Maria Rey: University of Colorado
Manoj K. Joshi: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Christian F. Roos: Universität Innsbruck

Nature, 2023, vol. 621, issue 7980, 740-745

Abstract: Abstract The control over quantum states in atomic systems has led to the most precise optical atomic clocks so far1–3. Their sensitivity is bounded at present by the standard quantum limit, a fundamental floor set by quantum mechanics for uncorrelated particles, which can—nevertheless—be overcome when operated with entangled particles. Yet demonstrating a quantum advantage in real-world sensors is extremely challenging. Here we illustrate a pathway for harnessing large-scale entanglement in an optical transition using 1D chains of up to 51 ions with interactions that decay as a power-law function of the ion separation. We show that our sensor can emulate many features of the one-axis-twisting (OAT) model, an iconic, fully connected model known to generate scalable squeezing4 and Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger-like states5–8. The collective nature of the state manifests itself in the preservation of the total transverse magnetization, the reduced growth of the structure factor, that is, spin-wave excitations (SWE), at finite momenta, the generation of spin squeezing comparable with OAT (a Wineland parameter9,10 of −3.9 ± 0.3 dB for only N = 12 ions) and the development of non-Gaussian states in the form of multi-headed cat states in the Q-distribution. We demonstrate the metrological utility of the states in a Ramsey-type interferometer, in which we reduce the measurement uncertainty by −3.2 ± 0.5 dB below the standard quantum limit for N = 51 ions.

Date: 2023
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