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Main Authors: Chin, Zachary E., Leibrandt, David R., Chuang, Isaac L.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05888
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  • Sensors for mapping the trajectory of an incoming particle find important utility in experimental high energy physics and searches for dark matter. For a quantum sensing protocol that uses projective measurements on a multi-qubit sensor array to infer the trajectory of an incident particle, we establish that entanglement can dramatically reduce the particle-qubit interaction strength $θ$ required for perfect trajectory discrimination. Within an interval of $θ$ above this reduced threshold, any unentangled sensor requires $Θ(\log(1/ε))$ repetitions of the protocol to estimate a previously unknown particle trajectory with $ε$ error probability, whereas an entangled sensor can succeed with zero error in a single shot. Furthermore, entanglement can enhance trajectory sensing in realistic scenarios where $θ$ varies continuously over the sensor qubits, exemplified by a Gaussian-profile laser pulse propagating through an array of atoms.