Published December 19, 2003
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Quantum Kalman filtering and the Heisenberg limit in atomic magnetometry
Abstract
The shot-noise detection limit in current high-precision magnetometry [I. Kominis, T. Kornack, J. Allred, and M. Romalis, Nature (London) 422, 596 (2003)] is a manifestation of quantum fluctuations that scale as 1/root-N in an ensemble of N atoms. Here, we develop a procedure that combines continuous measurement and quantum Kalman filtering [V. Belavkin, 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.
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©2003 The American Physical Society. Received 27 June 2003; published 19 December 2003. This work was supported by the NSF (PHY-9987541, EIA-0086038), by the ONR (N00014-00-1-0479), and by the Caltech MURI Center for Quantum Networks (DAAD19-00-1-0374).Files
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