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9 March 2020 Near-unitary spin squeezing with ytterbium (Conference Presentation)
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Abstract
State of the art atomic sensors operate near the standard quantum limit (SQL) of projection noise, and overcoming this limit by using atom-atom entanglement such as spin squeezing is a major goal in quantum metrology. By coupling an ensemble of approximately 1000 Yb-171 atoms to a high-finesse asymmetric micromirror cavity with single-atom cooperativity of 1.8., we produce a near-unitary spin squeezed state. The observed spin noise suppression and metrological gain are limited by the state readout to 9.4(4) dB and 6.5(4) dB, respectively, while the generated states offer a spin noise suppression of 15.9(6) dB and a metrological gain of 12.9(6) dB over the standard quantum limit, limited by the curvature of the Bloch sphere. When requiring the squeezing process to be within 30% of unitarity, we demonstrate an interferometer that improves the averaging time over the SQL by a factor of 3.7(2).
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Boris Braverman, Akio Kawasaki, Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel, Simone Colombo, Chi Shu, Zeyang Li, Enrique Mendez, Megan Yamoah, Leonardo Salvi, Daisuke Akamatsu, Yanhong Xiao, and Vladan Vuletic "Near-unitary spin squeezing with ytterbium (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 11296, Optical, Opto-Atomic, and Entanglement-Enhanced Precision Metrology II, 112960E (9 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2552065
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