Quantum sensing

CL Degen, F Reinhard, P Cappellaro - Reviews of modern physics, 2017 - APS
“Quantum sensing” describes the use of a quantum system, quantum properties, or quantum
phenomena to perform a measurement of a physical quantity. Historical examples of …

Quantum metrology with nonclassical states of atomic ensembles

L Pezze, A Smerzi, MK Oberthaler, R Schmied… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
Quantum technologies exploit entanglement to revolutionize computing, measurements, and
communications. This has stimulated the research in different areas of physics to engineer …

Optical atomic clocks

AD Ludlow, MM Boyd, J Ye, E Peik, PO Schmidt - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
Optical atomic clocks represent the state of the art in the frontier of modern measurement
science. In this article a detailed review on the development of optical atomic clocks that are …

Tracking the precession of single nuclear spins by weak measurements

KS Cujia, JM Boss, K Herb, J Zopes, CL Degen - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful technique for analysing the
structure and function of molecules, and for performing three-dimensional imaging of their …

Improving cold-atom sensors with quantum entanglement: Prospects and challenges

SS Szigeti, O Hosten, SA Haine - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum entanglement has been generated and verified in cold-atom experiments and
used to make atom-interferometric measurements below the shot-noise limit. However …

A chirality-based quantum leap

CD Aiello, JM Abendroth, M Abbas, A Afanasev… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
There is increasing interest in the study of chiral degrees of freedom occurring in matter and
in electromagnetic fields. Opportunities in quantum sciences will likely exploit two main …

Prospects and challenges for squeezing-enhanced optical atomic clocks

M Schulte, C Lisdat, PO Schmidt, U Sterr… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Optical atomic clocks are a driving force for precision measurements due to the high
accuracy and stability demonstrated in recent years. While further improvements to the …

Improving the Factor of an Optical Atomic Clock Using Quantum Nondemolition Measurement

W Bowden, A Vianello, IR Hill, M Schioppo, R Hobson - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Quantum nondemolition (QND) measurement is a remarkable tool for the manipulation of
quantum systems. It allows specific information to be extracted while still preserving fragile …

Near-Heisenberg-limited atomic clocks in the presence of decoherence

J Borregaard, AS Sørensen - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
The ultimate stability of 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 …

Heisenberg-limited noisy atomic clock using a hybrid coherent and squeezed state protocol

L Pezzè, A Smerzi - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We propose a hybrid quantum-classical atomic clock where the interrogation of atoms
prepared in a spin-coherent (or weakly squeezed) state is used to feed back one or more …