Limited-control metrology approaching the Heisenberg limit without entanglement preparation
arXiv:1905.12582 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.101.032347
Abstract
Current metrological bounds typically assume full control over all particles that are involved in the protocol. Relaxing this assumption we study metrological performance when only limited control is available. As an example, we measure a static magnetic field when a fully controlled quantum sensor is supplemented by particles over which only global control is possible. We show that even for a noisy quantum sensor, a protocol that maps the magnetic field to a precession frequency can achieve transient super-Heisenberg scaling in measurement time and Heisenberg scaling in the particle number. This leads to an estimation uncertainty that approaches that achievable under full control to within a factor independent of the particle number for a given total time. Applications to hybrid sensing devices and the crucial role of the quantum character of the sensor are discussed.
arXiv comment7+6 pages, 3+3 figures
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