Quantum noise limited interferometric measurement of atomic noise: towards spin squeezing on the Cs clock transition

Details Quantum noise limited interferometric measurement of atomic noise: towards spin squeezing on the Cs clock transition Quantum noise limited interferometric measurement of atomic noise: towards spin squeezing on the Cs clock transition

2003-12-19

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312165v2

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Quantum Physics

12 pages and 9 figures, accepted to Physical Review A

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We investigate theoretically and experimentally a nondestructive interferometric measurement of the state population of an ensemble of laser cooled and trapped atoms. This study is a step towards generation of (pseudo-) spin squeezing of cold atoms targeted at the improvement of the Caesium clock performance beyond the limit set by the quantum projection noise of atoms. We calculate the phase shift and the quantum noise of a near resonant optical probe pulse propagating through a cloud of cold 133Cs atoms. We analyze the figure of merit for a quantum non-demolition (QND) measurement of the collective pseudo-spin and show that it can be expressed simply as a product of the ensemble optical density and the pulse integrated rate of the spontaneous emission caused by the off-resonant probe light. Based on this, we propose a protocol for the sequence of operations required to generate and utilize spin squeezing for the improved atomic clock performance via a QND measurement on the probe light. In the experimental part we demonstrate that the interferometric measurement of the atomic population can reach the sensitivity of the order of N_at^1/2 in a cloud of N_at cold atoms, which is an important benchmark towards the experimental realisation of the theoretically analyzed protocol.

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