Differential magnetometry with partially flipped Dicke states

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Auteurs principaux: Apellaniz, Iagoba, Gessner, Manuel, Tóth, Géza
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author Apellaniz, Iagoba
Gessner, Manuel
Tóth, Géza
author_facet Apellaniz, Iagoba
Gessner, Manuel
Tóth, Géza
contents We study magnetometry of gradients and homogeneous background fields along the three orthogonal directions using two spatially separated spin ensembles. We derive trade-off relations for the achievable estimation precision of these parameters. Dicke states, optimal for homogeneous field estimation, can be locally rotated into states sensitive to magnetic gradients by rotating the spins in one subensemble. We determine bounds for the precision for gradient metrology in the three orthogonal directions as a function of the sensitivities to the homogenous field in those directions. The resulting partially flipped Dicke state saturates the bounds above, showing similar sensitivity in two directions but significantly reduced sensitivity in the third. Exploiting entanglement between the two ensembles, this state achieves roughly twice the precision attainable by the best bipartite separable state, which is a product of local Dicke states. For small ensembles, we explicitly identify measurement operators saturating the quantum Cramér-Rao bound, while for larger ensembles, we propose simpler but suboptimal schemes. In both cases, the gradient is estimated from second moments and correlations of angular momentum operators. Our results demonstrate how the metrological properties of Dicke states can be exploited for quantum-enhanced multiparameter estimation.
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spellingShingle Differential magnetometry with partially flipped Dicke states
Apellaniz, Iagoba
Gessner, Manuel
Tóth, Géza
Quantum Physics
We study magnetometry of gradients and homogeneous background fields along the three orthogonal directions using two spatially separated spin ensembles. We derive trade-off relations for the achievable estimation precision of these parameters. Dicke states, optimal for homogeneous field estimation, can be locally rotated into states sensitive to magnetic gradients by rotating the spins in one subensemble. We determine bounds for the precision for gradient metrology in the three orthogonal directions as a function of the sensitivities to the homogenous field in those directions. The resulting partially flipped Dicke state saturates the bounds above, showing similar sensitivity in two directions but significantly reduced sensitivity in the third. Exploiting entanglement between the two ensembles, this state achieves roughly twice the precision attainable by the best bipartite separable state, which is a product of local Dicke states. For small ensembles, we explicitly identify measurement operators saturating the quantum Cramér-Rao bound, while for larger ensembles, we propose simpler but suboptimal schemes. In both cases, the gradient is estimated from second moments and correlations of angular momentum operators. Our results demonstrate how the metrological properties of Dicke states can be exploited for quantum-enhanced multiparameter estimation.
title Differential magnetometry with partially flipped Dicke states
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23815