Adiabatic Sensing Enhanced by Quantum Criticality

Abstract

We propose an optimal method exploiting second order quantum phase transitions to perform high precision measurements of the control parameter at criticality. Our approach accesses the high fidelity susceptibility via the measurement of first- and second-moments of the order parameter and overcomes the difficulties of existing methods based on the overlap between nearby quantum states, which is hardly detectable in many-body systems. We experimentally demonstrate the feasibility of the method with a Bose-Einstein condensate undergoing a symmetry-breaking quantum phase transition as a function of the attractive inter-particle interaction strength. Our moment-based fidelity susceptibility shows a clear peak that, at the same time, detects the quantum critical point at finite temperature without any model-dependent fit to the data and certifies high sensitivity in parameter-estimation.

6 pages, 3 figures + supplementary material

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