Magnetic field sensing beyond the standard quantum limit using 10-spin noon states

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5931, 2009, Pages 1166-1168

  Jones, Jonathan A ^a   Karlen, Steven D ^a   Fitzsimons, Joseph ^a,b   Ardavan, Arzhang ^a   Benjamin, Simon C ^a,c   Briggs, G Andrew D ^a   Morton, John J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SENSOR;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTUM YIELD;

EID: 66349123010     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1170730     Document Type: Article

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29. We thank P. Kok for helpful discussions. This research is supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council through the Quantum Information Processing Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (www.qipirc.org) (GR/S82176/01) and CAESR (EP/D048559/1). J.F. is supported by Merton College, Oxford. G.A.D.B. is supported by the EPSRC (GR/S15808/01). J.J.L.M. acknowledges St. John's College, Oxford. J.J.L.M., S.C.B., and A.A. acknowledge support from the Royal Society.