Near-unitary spin squeezing with ytterbium (Conference Presentation)
Boris Braverman, Akio Kawasaki, Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel +9 more
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).
Optical and Quantum Sensing and Precision Metrology II•Mar 9, 2020•0 citations