Non-destructive in-situ thermometry of a cold gas via rephrasing impurities
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Mitchison M.T and Fogarty T and Guarnieri G and Campbell S and Busch T and Goold J, Non-destructive in-situ thermometry of a cold gas via rephrasing impurities, Physical Review Letters, arXiv:2004.02911, 2020Download Item:
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The precise measurement of low temperatures is a challenging, important and fundamental task for quantum science. In particular, non-destructive in-situ thermometry is highly desirable for cold atomic systems due to their potential for quantum simulation. Here we demonstrate that the temperature of a non-interacting Fermigas can be accurately inferred from the non-equilibrium dynamics of impurities immersed within it, using an interferometric protocol and established experimental methods. Adopting tools from the theory of quantum parameter estimation, we show that our proposed scheme achieves optimal precision in the relevant temperature regime for degenerate Fermi gases in current experiments. We also discover an intriguing trade-off between measurement time and thermometric precision that is controlled by the impurity-gas coupling, with weak coupling leading to the greatest sensitivities. This is explained as a consequence of the slow decoherence associated with the onset of the Anderson orthogonality catastrophe, which dominates the gas dynamics following its local interaction with the immersed impurity
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