Sensing Low-Frequency Field with Rydberg Atoms via Quantum Weak Measurement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09518v1
• Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:21:40 GMT
• Title: Sensing Low-Frequency Field with Rydberg Atoms via Quantum Weak Measurement
• Abstract summary: Rydberg atom has emerged as an attractive choice to realize quantum sensing of low-frequency electric field.<n> external field acting on the Rydberg state can induce the polarization variation of probe laser in Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency system.<n>We experimentally observe this phenomenon and realize signal extraction by appropriately utilizing the polarization degrees of freedom.
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• Abstract: Recently, Rydberg atom has emerged as an attractive choice to realize quantum sensing of low-frequency electric field. The progress so far has mostly utilized the intensity and phase changes in probe laser and the corresponding detection mechanism still remains classical. Nevertheless, external field acting on the Rydberg state can induce the polarization variation of probe laser in the Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) system embedded in realistic multi-state atoms. We experimentally observe this phenomenon and realize signal extraction by appropriately utilizing the polarization degrees of freedom. Based on such a mechanism, we further design and implement a quantum weak measurement scheme, which clearly suppresses the technical noise and leads to considerable improvement of performance. Evaluation of the sensitivities across different post-selection angles demonstrates that the weak measurement results agree well with the theoretical model predictions. The advantages of our method are analyzed from multiple aspects, including characterizing the responses over different frequencies and comparing the responses of the weak measurement scheme and the traditional transmission-based method. After accounting for the screening effect of a measured ratio 17\% where the $^\text{87}$Rb atoms experience a substantially reduced field inside the glass cell, the performance reaches 33 $μ\text{V}~\text{cm}^\text{-1}~\text{Hz}^\text{-1/2}$ in sensitivity and 1.0 $μ\text{V/cm}$ in minimal detectable field for an integration time of 1000 s, as perceived by the atoms.

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