The elusive Heisenberg limit in quantum-enhanced metrology

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Demkowicz Dobrzański, Rafał ^a   Kołodyński, Jan ^a   Guţa, Madalin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DEPOLARIZATION; GEOMETRY; GRAVITY; HEISENBERG SCALING; PHOTON; QUANTUM ENHANCED METROLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; SIMULATION;

EID: 84867033243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2067     Document Type: Article

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