Quantum-enhanced sensing of a mechanical oscillator

Abstract

The use of special quantum states to achieve sensitivities below the limits established by classically behaving states has enjoyed immense success since its inception. In bosonic interferometers, squeezed states, number states and cat states have been implemented on various platforms and have demonstrated improved measurement precision over interferometers based on coherent states. Another metrologically useful state is an equal superposition of two eigenstates with maximally different energies; this state ideally reaches the full interferometric sensitivity allowed by quantum mechanics. By leveraging improvements to our apparatus made primarily to reach higher operation fidelities in quantum information processing, we extend a technique to create number states up to $n=100$ and to generate superpositions of a harmonic oscillator ground state and a number state of the form $\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(|0⟩+|n⟩)$ with $n$ up to 18 in the motion of a single trapped ion. While experimental imperfections prevent us from reaching the ideal Heisenberg limit, we observe enhanced sensitivity to changes in the oscillator frequency that initially increases linearly with $n$, with maximal value at $n=12$ where we observe 3.2(2) dB higher sensitivity compared to an ideal measurement on a coherent state with the same average occupation number. The quantum advantage from using number-state superpositions can be leveraged towards precision measurements on any harmonic oscillator system; here it enables us to track the average fractional frequency of oscillation of a single trapped ion to approximately 2.6 $\times$ 10${}^{-6}$ in 5 s. Such measurements should provide improved characterization of imperfections and noise on trapping potentials, which can lead to motional decoherence, a leading source of error in quantum information processing with trapped ions.

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