Quantum-noise-limited interferometric measurement of atomic noise: Towards spin squeezing on the Cs clock transition

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Oblak, Daniel ^a,b   Petrov, Plamen G ^a,c   Garrido Alzar, Carlos L ^a,c   Tittel, Wolfgang ^a,b   Vershovski, Anton K ^a,b   Mikkelsen, Jens K ^a,b   Sørensen, Jens L ^a,b   Polzik, Eugene S ^a,c  

^a DANISH NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC NOISE; QUANTUM NONDEMOLITION (QND); QUANTUM-NOISE-LIMITED INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT; SPIN SQUEEZING;

ATOMIC CLOCKS; ATOMIC PHYSICS; CESIUM; COOLING; DENSITY (OPTICAL); LASER APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 25644432262     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.043807     Document Type: Article

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