Hannover 2013 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 2: Precision measurements and metrology I
Q 2.2: Vortrag
Montag, 18. März 2013, 11:30–11:45, F 128
Noisy metrology beyond the standard quantum limit — •Rafael Chaves1,2, Jonatan Bohr Brask2, Marcin Markiewicz3, Janek Kołodyński4, and Antonio Acin2,5 — 1Institute for Physics, University of Freiburg, Germany — 2ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain — 3Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Gdańsk, Poland — 4Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland — 5ICREA-Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain
Parameter estimation is of fundamental importance in areas from atomic spectroscopy to gravitational wave-detection. Entangled probes provide a significant precision gain over classical strategies in the absence of noise. However, recent results seem to indicate that any small amount of realistic noise restricts the advantage of quantum strategies to an improvement by at most a multiplicative constant. We identify a relevant scenario in which one can overcome this restriction and attain super-classical precision scaling even in the presence of uncorrelated noise. We show that the quantum improvement can be significantly enlarged when the noise is concentrated along some spatial direction, while the Hamiltonian governing the evolution which depends on the parameter to be estimated can be engineered to point along a different direction. In particular, in the case of perpendicular orientation, we find a maximal asymptotic precision scaling of 1/N5/6, where N is the number of probe particles, and identify a state which achieves this.