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Quantum squeezing cannot beat the standard quantum limit
Quantum entanglement between particles is expected to allow one to perform
tasks that would otherwise be impossible. In quantum sensing and metrology,
entanglement is often claimed to enable a precision that cannot be attained
with the same number of particles and time, forgoing entanglement. Two distinct
approaches exist: creation of entangled states that either i) respond quicker
to the signal, or ii) are associated with lower noise and uncertainty. The
second class of states are generally called squeezed states. Here we show that
if our definition of success is -- a precision that is impossible to achieve
without entanglement -- then the second approach cannot succeed. In doing so we
show that a single non-separable squeezed state provides fundamentally no
better precision, per unit time, than a single particle
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Randomisation of Pulse Phases for Unambiguous and Robust Quantum Sensing
We develop theoretically and demonstrate experimentally a universal dynamical
decoupling method for robust quantum sensing with unambiguous signal
identification. Our method uses randomisation of control pulses to suppress
simultaneously two types of errors in the measured spectra that would otherwise
lead to false signal identification. These are spurious responses due to
finite-width pulses, as well as signal distortion caused by pulse
imperfections. For the cases of nanoscale nuclear spin sensing and AC
magnetometry, we benchmark the performance of the protocol with a single
nitrogen vacancy centre in diamond against widely used non-randomised pulse
sequences. Our method is general and can be combined with existing multipulse
quantum sensing sequences to enhance their performance
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