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Toward Heisenberg-Limited Spectroscopy with Multiparticle Entangled States

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Dietrich G. Leibfried, Murray D. Barrett, T Schaetz, Joseph W. Britton, J Chiaverini, Wayne M. Itano, John D. Jost, Christopher Langer, David J. Wineland

Abstract

The precision in spectroscopy of any quantum system is fundamentally limited by the Heisenberg uncertainty relation for energy and time. For N systems, this limit requires that they be in a quantum-mechanically entangled state. We describe a scalable method of spectroscopy that can potentially take full advantage of entanglement to reach the Heisenberg limit and has the practical advantage that the spectroscopic information is transferred to states with optimal protection against readout noise. We demonstrate our method experimentally with three beryllium ions. The spectroscopic sensitivity attained is 1.45(2) times as high as that of a perfect experiment with three nonentangled particles.
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Science
Volume
304
Pub Type
Journals

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Leibfried, D. , Barrett, M. , Schaetz, T. , Britton, J. , Chiaverini, J. , Itano, W. , Jost, J. , Langer, C. and Wineland, D. (2004), Toward Heisenberg-Limited Spectroscopy with Multiparticle Entangled States, Science, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=105374 (Accessed October 14, 2025)

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Created January 1, 2004, Updated February 17, 2017
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