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Perfect quantum protractors

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13045v2
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 08:31:59 GMT
Title: Perfect quantum protractors
Authors: Michał Piotrak, Marek Kopciuch, Arash Dezhang Fard, Magdalena Smolis, Szymon Pustelny, Kamil Korzekwa,
Abstract summary: Perfect quantum protractors can only exist for systems with a well-defined total angular momentum $j$. Perfect quantum protractors form an optimal resource for a metrological task of estimating the angle of rotation around.
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Abstract: In this paper we introduce and investigate the concept of a perfect quantum protractor, a pure quantum state $|\psi\rangle\in\mathcal{H}$ that generates three different orthogonal bases of $\mathcal{H}$ under rotations around each of the three perpendicular axes. Such states can be understood as pure states of maximal uncertainty with regards to the three components of the angular momentum operator, as we prove that they maximise various entropic and variance-based measures of such uncertainty. We argue that perfect quantum protractors can only exist for systems with a well-defined total angular momentum $j$, and we prove that they do not exist for $j\in\{1/2,2,5/2\}$, but they do exist for $j\in\{1,3/2,3\}$ (with numerical evidence for their existence when $j=7/2$). We also explain that perfect quantum protractors form an optimal resource for a metrological task of estimating the angle of rotation around (or the strength of magnetic field along) one of the three perpendicular axes, when the axis is not $\textit{a priori}$ known. Finally, we demonstrate this metrological utility by performing an experiment with warm atomic vapours of rubidium-87, where we prepare a perfect quantum protractor for a spin-1 system, let it precess around $x$, $y$ or $z$ axis, and then employ it to optimally estimate the rotation angle.

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