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Enhancing quantum clocks and sensors with randomization and decoherence

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Luis Pedro García-Pintos *
DOI:10.1088/2058-9565/ae5fc8delete
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This letter shows how incoherent dynamics can lead to metrological advantages in quantum sensing. The results rely on the fact that incoherent dynamics lead to an additive contribution to the quantum Fisher information about time. Such an additive contribution can reduce the error of optimal estimation protocols, as implied by the quantum Cram & eacute;r-Rao bound. I characterize regimes in which the estimation of a time interval or a frequency is enhanced by decoherence, thereby identifying cases in which incoherent dynamics serve as a metrological resource. The decoherence processes that yield enhanced precision of quantum sensors can be engineered by randomized Hamiltonian dynamics. I illustrate the results with protocols that display improved sensing of time intervals or global fields by qubit and photonic sensors. Enhanced precision of time intervals is achieved with Hamiltonians that include randomized global parameters. Enhanced precision in field estimation is obtained by randomized sensing times.
Keywords:
quantum metrology
quantum sensing
quantum clocks

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Quantum Science and Technology cover
Quantum Science and Technology
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united states department of energy (doe)
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