Entanglement-enhanced optical magnetometry beyond the standard quantum limit

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06815v1
• Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:12:17 GMT
• Title: Entanglement-enhanced optical magnetometry beyond the standard quantum limit
• Abstract summary: Optical atomic magnetometry is a powerful tool for continuous sensing applications.<n>In the absence of quantum correlations, its sensitivity is limited by the standard quantum limit.<n>Here we demonstrate such sensitivity by using entangled state of the probe light.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Optical atomic magnetometry is a powerful tool for continuous sensing applications, yet, in the absence of quantum correlations, its sensitivity is limited by the standard quantum limit (SQL) stemming from a trade-off between optical probe imprecision and quantum measurement backaction. Beyond-SQL sensitivity requires quantum correlations that modify these measurement noise sources. Here we demonstrate such sensitivity by using entangled state of the probe light and by engineering correlations between measurement imprecision and backaction. Having first explored SQL in a broad range of frequencies, we demonstrate overcoming the limit by combining variational readout with coupling the magnetometer to one mode of a bipartite entangled light state and conditioning the results on the other entangled mode. Tuning the detected light quadratures and combining the signals from the two measurement channels, we achieve sensitivity beyond the SQL in a broad range of acoustic frequencies which has so far remained inaccessible to quantum-noise-limited optical magnetometry.

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