title: Spin squeezing and non-linear atom interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates
creator: Groß, Christian
subject: ddc-530
subject: 530 Physics
description: Interferometry is the most precise measurement technique known today. It is based on interference and therefore on the wave-like nature of the resources – photons or atoms – in the interferometer. As given by the laws of quantum mechanics the granular, particle-like features of the individually independent atoms or photons are responsible for the precision limit – the shot noise limit. However this “classical” bound is not fundamental and it is the aim of quantum metrology to overcome it by employing quantum correlations – entanglement – among the particles. We report on the realization of spin squeezed states suitable for atom interferometry based on two external modes of a Bose-Einstein condensate. We detect manybody entangled states which allow – in principle – for a precision gain of 35% over the shot noise limit in atom interferometry. We demonstrate a novel non-linear atom interferometer for Bose-Einstein condensates whose linear analog – the Ramsey interferometer – is used for the definition of the time standard. Within the non-linear interferometer we detect a large entangled state of 170 inseparable atoms. A measurement with this interferometer outperforms its ideal linear analog by 15% in phase estimation precision showing directly the feasibility of non-linear atom interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates beyond “classical” precision limits.
date: 2010
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/10626/1/Dissertation_Christian_Gross.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00010626
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-106268
identifier:   Groß, Christian  (2010) Spin squeezing and non-linear atom interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/10626/
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language: eng