| Zugriffsnummer | 45249 |
| Dokumenttyp | Zeitschriftenartikel |
| Peer Review | mit Peer Review |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Titel | Prospects and challenges for squeezing-enhanced optical atomic clocks |
| Autor(in); Institution |
Schulte, Marius; Leibniz University Hannover, Institute for Theoretical Physics and Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert-Einstein-Institute), Hannover, GERMANY
Lisdat, Christian; 4.3, Quantenoptik und Längeneinheit, PTB-Braunschweig
Schmidt, Piet O.; QUEST Institute for Experimental Quantum Metrology, PTB-Braunschweig; Leibniz University Hannover, Institute for Quantum Optics, Hannover, GERMANY
Sterr, Uwe; 4.3, Quantenoptik und Längeneinheit, PTB-Braunschweig
Hammerer, Klemens; Leibniz University Hannover, Institute for Theoretical Physics and Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert-Einstein-Institute), Hannover, GERMANY
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| Quelle/Jahr | Nature Communications: 11 (2020), 1 - 10 |
| Artikelnummer | 5955 |
| Availability | [online only] |
| ISSN | 2041-1723 |
| DOI | |
| Verlag | London: Nature Publishing Group |
| Zusammenfassung | Optical atomic clocks are a driving force for precision measurements due to the high accuracy and stability demonstrated in recent years. While further improvements to the stability have been envisioned by using entangled atoms, squeezing the quantum mechanical projection noise, evaluating the overall gain must incorporate essential features of an atomic clock. Here, we investigate the benefits of spin squeezed states for clocks operated with typical Brownian frequency noise-limited laser sources. Based on an analytic model of the closed servo-loop of an optical atomic clock, we report here quantitative predictions on the optimal clock stability for a given dead time and laser noise. Our analytic predictions are in good agreement with numerical simulations of the closed servo-loop. We find that for usual cyclic Ramsey interrogation of single atomic ensembles with dead time, even with the current most stable lasers spin squeezing can only improve the clock stability for ensembles below a critical atom number of about one thousand in an optical Sr lattice clock. Even with a future improvement of the laser performance by one order of magnitude the critical atom number still remains below 100,000. In contrast, clocks based on smaller, non-scalable ensembles, such as ion clocks, can already benefit from squeezed states with current clock lasers. |
| Kostenfreier Zugang | Open Access Gold |
| Rechteinformation | CC BY 4.0 ; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License |