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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Progress Toward Atomic Magnetometry Beyond the Conventional Heisenberg Scaling

Heather L. Partner, Brigette D. Black, J. M. Geremia

Published May 30, 2008• 0 citations
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The shot-noise detection limit in current high-precision magnetometry [Nature (London) 422, 596 (2003)] is a manifestation of quantum fluctuations that scale as 1/sqrt[N] in an ensemble of N atoms. Here, we develop a procedure that combines continuous measurement and quantum Kalman filtering [Rep. Math. Phys. 43, 405 (1999)]] to surpass this conventional limit by exploiting conditional spin squeezing to achieve 1/N field sensitivity. Our analysis demonstrates the importance of optimal estimation for high bandwidth precision magnetometry at the Heisenberg limit and also identifies an approximate estimator based on linear regression.
Theoretical proposals to reach the Heisenberg scaling of the measurement precision typically require carefully engineered interactions or initial entanglement. In studying optical magnetometry, we show that the continuous collective measurement process itself can generate the necessary many-body quantum correlations to achieve the elusive Heisenberg scaling of the quantum Fisher information in a dissipative, steady-state system without direct inter-atomic interactions. By contrasting a correlation-neglecting but otherwise consistent semiclassical model, which can violate the quantum Cramér-Rao bound (QCRB) by several orders of magnitude, with a collective quantum model, we isolate measurement-induced correlations as the essential mechanism. The violation of the QCRB serves thereby as a fundamental sanity check for semiclassical spectroscopic theories. This work reveals measurement-induced correlations as a widely unexplored quantum resource for quantum-enhanced sensing, establishes a new paradigm for achieving Heisenberg scaling in open quantum systems, and provides a direct path to test the foundations of quantum mechanics using macroscopic atom ensembles.