Mesoscopic atomic entanglement for precision measurements beyond the standard quantum limit

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 27, 2009, Pages 10960-10965

  Appel, J ^a   Windpassinger, P J ^a   Oblak, D ^a   Hoff, U B ^a   Kjaergaard N ^a   Polzik, E S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atomic clocks; Quantum nondemolition measurements; Spin squeezing

Indexed keywords

CESIUM;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATOM; COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 67650503555     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901550106     Document Type: Article

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