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View SchemaStability of atomic clocks based on entangled atoms
| Authors | A. Andre, A. S. Sorensen, M. D. Lukin |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0401130 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0401130 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.230801 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 230801 (2004). |
Abstract
We analyze the effect of realistic noise sources for an atomic clock consisting of a local oscillator that is actively locked to a spin-squeezed (entangled) ensemble of $N$ atoms. We show that the use of entangled states can lead to an improvement of the long-term stability of the clock when the measurement is limited by decoherence associated with instability of the local oscillator combined with fluctuations in the atomic ensemble's Bloch vector. Atomic states with a moderate degree of entanglement yield the maximal clock stability, resulting in an improvement that scales as $N^{1/6}$ compared to the atomic shot noise level.
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