Enhancing sensitivity to rotations with quantum solitonic currents

Autor: P. Naldesi, J. Polo, V. Dunjko, H. Perrin, M. Olshanii, L. Amico, A. Minguzzi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: SciPost Physics, Vol 12, Iss 4, p 138 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2542-4653
DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.12.4.138
Popis: We study a gas of attracting bosons confined in a ring shape potential pierced by an artificial magnetic field. Because of attractive interactions, quantum analogs of bright solitons are formed. As a genuine quantum-many-body feature, we demonstrate that angular momentum fractionalization occurs and that such effect manifests on time of flight measurements. As a consequence, the matter-wave current in our system can react to very small changes of rotation or other artificial gauge fields. We work out a protocol to entangle such quantum solitonic currents, allowing to operate rotation sensors and gyroscopes to Heisenberg-limited sensitivity. Therefore, we demonstrate that the specific coherence and entanglement properties of the system can induce an enhancement of sensitivity to an external rotation.
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