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Quantum metrology with nonclassical states of atomic ensembles
Quantum technologies exploit entanglement to revolutionize computing,
measurements, and communications. This has stimulated the research in different
areas of physics to engineer and manipulate fragile many-particle entangled
states. Progress has been particularly rapid for atoms. Thanks to the large and
tunable nonlinearities and the well developed techniques for trapping,
controlling and counting, many groundbreaking experiments have demonstrated the
generation of entangled states of trapped ions, cold and ultracold gases of
neutral atoms. Moreover, atoms can couple strongly to external forces and light
fields, which makes them ideal for ultra-precise sensing and time keeping. All
these factors call for generating non-classical atomic states designed for
phase estimation in atomic clocks and atom interferometers, exploiting
many-body entanglement to increase the sensitivity of precision measurements.
The goal of this article is to review and illustrate the theory and the
experiments with atomic ensembles that have demonstrated many-particle
entanglement and quantum-enhanced metrology.Comment: 76 pages, 40 figures, 1 table, 603 references. Some figures bitmapped
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Classical bifurcation at the transition from Rabi to Josephson dynamics
We report on the experimental realization of an internal bosonic Josephson
junction in a Rubidium spinor Bose-Einstein condensate. The measurement of the
full time dynamics in phase space allows the characterization of the
theoretically predicted -phase modes and quantitatively confirms
analytical predictions, revealing a classical bifurcation. Our results suggest
that this system is a model system which can be tuned from classical to the
quantum regime and thus is an important step towards the experimental
investigation of entanglement generation close to critical points
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