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Seconds-scale coherence in a tweezer-array optical clock

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Optical clocks based on atoms and ions achieve exceptional precision and accuracy, with applications to relativistic geodesy, tests of relativity, and searches for dark matter. Achieving such performance requires balancing competing desirable features, including a high particle number, isolation of atoms from collisions, insensitivity to motional effects, and high duty-cycle operation. Here we demonstrate a new platform based on arrays of ultracold strontium atoms confined within optical tweezers that realizes a novel combination of these features by providing a scalable platform for isolated atoms that can be interrogated multiple times. With this tweezer-array clock, we achieve greater than 3 second coherence times and record duty cycles up to 96%, as well as stability commensurate with leading platforms. By using optical tweezer arrays --- a proven platform for the controlled creation of entanglement through microscopic control --- this work further promises a new path toward combining entanglement enhanced sensitivities with the most precise optical clock transitions.

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Variational spin-squeezing algorithms on programmable quantum sensors

quant-ph · 2019-08-22 · conditional · novelty 6.0

A variational feedback algorithm using only global pulses and finite-range Rydberg interactions can prepare spin-squeezed states that outperform standard one-axis and two-axis twisting protocols in numerical simulations.

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  • Variational spin-squeezing algorithms on programmable quantum sensors quant-ph · 2019-08-22 · conditional · none · ref 8 · internal anchor

    A variational feedback algorithm using only global pulses and finite-range Rydberg interactions can prepare spin-squeezed states that outperform standard one-axis and two-axis twisting protocols in numerical simulations.