Frequency measurements beyond the Heisenberg time-energy limit with a single atom

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08536v2
• Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2021 02:23:05 GMT
• Title: Frequency measurements beyond the Heisenberg time-energy limit with a single atom
• Authors: Liam P. McGuinness
• Abstract summary: Heisenberg time-energy relation prevents determination of an atomic transition to better than the inverse of the measurement time. Here we demonstrate a frequency estimation technique that provides an uncertainty orders of magnitude below the Heisenberg limit with a single atom.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The Heisenberg time-energy relation prevents determination of an atomic transition to better than the inverse of the measurement time. The relation generally applies to frequency estimation of a near-resonant field [1-3], since information on the field frequency can be used to infer the atomic transition [4, 5]. Here we demonstrate a frequency estimation technique that provides an uncertainty orders of magnitude below the Heisenberg limit with a single atom. With access to $N$ atoms, we propose a fundamental uncertainty limit improving as $\sqrt{N}$, regardless of whether entanglement is employed. We describe implementation of the quantum fourier transform to estimate an unknown frequency without using entanglement. A comparison to classical algorithms severely limits the benefit that quantum algorithms provide for frequency estimation and that entanglement provides to quantum sensing in general.

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