Near-heisenberg-limited atomic clocks in the presence of decoherence

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Borregaard, J ^a   Sorensen A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MEASUREMENTS; ATOMIC ENSEMBLE; ATOMIC NOISE; ENTANGLED ATOMS; ENTANGLED STATE; HEISENBERG LIMIT; HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY RELATION; QUANTUM METROLOGY;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

ATOMIC CLOCKS;

EID: 84884235460     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.090801     Document Type: Article

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