Spin squeezing can improve atomic precision measurements beyond the standard quantum limit (SQL), and unitary spin squeezing is essential for improving atomic clocks. We report substantial and nearly unitary spin squeezing in Yb171, an optical lattice clock atom. The collective nuclear spin of ∼10^3 atoms is squeezed by cavity feedback, using light detuned from the system's resonances to attain unitarity. The observed precision gain over the SQL is limited by state readout to 6.5(4) dB, while the generated states offer a gain of 12.9(6) dB, limited by the curvature of the Bloch sphere. Using a squeezed state within 30% of unitarity, we demonstrate an interferometer that improves the averaging time over the SQL by a factor of 3.7(2). In the future, the squeezing can be simply transferred onto the optical-clock transition of Yb171.
Near-Unitary Spin Squeezing in Yb 171 / Braverman B.; Kawasaki A.; Pedrozo-Penafiel E.; Colombo S.; Shu C.; Li Z.; Mendez E.; Yamoah M.; Salvi L.; Akamatsu D.; Xiao Y.; Vuletic V.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - ELETTRONICO. - 122:(2019), pp. 0-0. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.223203]
Near-Unitary Spin Squeezing in Yb 171
Salvi L.;
2019
Abstract
Spin squeezing can improve atomic precision measurements beyond the standard quantum limit (SQL), and unitary spin squeezing is essential for improving atomic clocks. We report substantial and nearly unitary spin squeezing in Yb171, an optical lattice clock atom. The collective nuclear spin of ∼10^3 atoms is squeezed by cavity feedback, using light detuned from the system's resonances to attain unitarity. The observed precision gain over the SQL is limited by state readout to 6.5(4) dB, while the generated states offer a gain of 12.9(6) dB, limited by the curvature of the Bloch sphere. Using a squeezed state within 30% of unitarity, we demonstrate an interferometer that improves the averaging time over the SQL by a factor of 3.7(2). In the future, the squeezing can be simply transferred onto the optical-clock transition of Yb171.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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