Atom interferometer in a double-well potential

作者:Gietka Karol*; Chwedenczuk Jan
来源:Physical Review A, 2014, 90(6): 063601.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.90.063601

摘要

We present a detailed study of an atom interferometer which can be realized in a double-well potential. We assume that the interferometric phase is imprinted in the presence of coherent tunneling between the wells. We calculate the ultimate bounds for the estimation sensitivity and show how they relate to the precision of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The interferometer presented here allows for sub-shot-noise sensitivity when fed with spin-squeezed states with either a reduced relative population imbalance or a reduced relative phase. We also calculate the precision of the estimation from the population imbalance and show that it overcomes the shot-noise limit when the entangled squeezed states are used at the input.

  • 出版日期2014-12-1