Universality of the Heisenberg limit for estimates of random phase shifts

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Hall, Michael J W ^a   Berry, Dominic W ^b   Zwierz, Marcin ^a   Wiseman, Howard M ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL PHASE; AVERAGE ERRORS; HEISENBERG LIMIT; LOWER BOUNDS; MULTIMODES; MULTIPLE PASS; NON-ASYMPTOTIC; NONLINEAR PHASE SHIFT; RANDOM PHASE SHIFT;

ESTIMATION; PROBES;

PHASE SHIFT;

EID: 84859999883     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.85.041802     Document Type: Article

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