TY - JOUR
AU - Peiru He
AU - Michael Perlin
AU - Sean Muleady
AU - Robert Lewis-Swan
AU - Ross Hutson
AU - Jun Ye
AU - Ana Maria Rey
AB - One of the most important tasks in modern quantum science is to coherently control and entangle many-body systems, and to subsequently use these systems to realize powerful quantum technologies such as quantum-enhanced sensors. However, many-body entangled states are difficult to prepare and preserve since internal dynamics and external noise rapidly degrade any useful entanglement. Here, we introduce a protocol that counterintuitively exploits inhomogeneities, a typical source of dephasing in a many-body system, in combination with interactions to generate metrologically useful and robust many-body entangled states. Motivated by current limitations in state-of-the-art three-dimensional (3D) optical lattice clocks (OLCs) operating at quantum degeneracy, we use local interactions in a Hubbard model with spin-orbit coupling to achieve a spin-locking effect. In addition to prolonging inter-particle spin coherence, spin-locking transforms the dephasing effect of spin-orbit coupling into a collective spin-squeezing process that can be further enhanced by applying a modulated drive. Our protocol is fully compatible with state-of-the-art 3D OLC interrogation schemes and may be used to improve their sensitivity, which is currently limited by the intrinsic quantum noise of independent atoms. We demonstrate that even with realistic experimental imperfections, our protocol may generate ∼10--14 dB of spin squeezing in ∼1 second with ∼102--104 atoms. This capability exemplifies a new paradigm of using driven non-equilibrium systems to overcome current limitations in quantum metrology, allowing OLCs to enter a new regime of enhanced sensing with correlated quantum states.
BT - Physical Review Research
DA - 2019-11
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.033075
N2 - One of the most important tasks in modern quantum science is to coherently control and entangle many-body systems, and to subsequently use these systems to realize powerful quantum technologies such as quantum-enhanced sensors. However, many-body entangled states are difficult to prepare and preserve since internal dynamics and external noise rapidly degrade any useful entanglement. Here, we introduce a protocol that counterintuitively exploits inhomogeneities, a typical source of dephasing in a many-body system, in combination with interactions to generate metrologically useful and robust many-body entangled states. Motivated by current limitations in state-of-the-art three-dimensional (3D) optical lattice clocks (OLCs) operating at quantum degeneracy, we use local interactions in a Hubbard model with spin-orbit coupling to achieve a spin-locking effect. In addition to prolonging inter-particle spin coherence, spin-locking transforms the dephasing effect of spin-orbit coupling into a collective spin-squeezing process that can be further enhanced by applying a modulated drive. Our protocol is fully compatible with state-of-the-art 3D OLC interrogation schemes and may be used to improve their sensitivity, which is currently limited by the intrinsic quantum noise of independent atoms. We demonstrate that even with realistic experimental imperfections, our protocol may generate ∼10--14 dB of spin squeezing in ∼1 second with ∼102--104 atoms. This capability exemplifies a new paradigm of using driven non-equilibrium systems to overcome current limitations in quantum metrology, allowing OLCs to enter a new regime of enhanced sensing with correlated quantum states.
PY - 2019
SE - 033075
EP - 033075
T2 - Physical Review Research
TI - Engineering spin squeezing in a 3D optical lattice with interacting spin-orbit-coupled fermions
UR - https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.033075
VL - 1
ER -