Nearly Heisenberg-limited noise-unbiased frequency estimation by tailored sensor design
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Paz-Silva, GA
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We consider entanglement-assisted frequency estimation by Ramsey interferometry in the presence of dephasing noise from general spatiotemporally correlated environments. By working in the widely employed local estimation regime, we show that even for infinite measurement statistics, noise renders standard estimators biased or ill defined. We introduce ratio estimators which, at the cost of doubling the required resources, are insensitive to noise and retain the asymptotic precision scaling of standard ones. While ratio estimators are applicable also in the limit of Markovian noise, we focus on non-Markovian dephasing from a bosonic bath and show how knowledge about the noise spectrum may be used to maximize metrological advantage by tailoring the sensor's geometry. Notably, Heisenberg scaling is attained up to a logarithmic prefactor by maximally entangled states, while optimal Zeno scaling is afforded by one-axis twisted spin-squeezed states.
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Physical Review A
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108
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4
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© 2023 American Physical Society. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
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Riberi, F; Paz-Silva, GA; Viola, L, Nearly Heisenberg-limited noise-unbiased frequency estimation by tailored sensor design, Physical Review A, 2023, 108 (4), pp. 042419