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Limits on Spectral Resolution Measurements by Quantum Probes

Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: The limits of frequency resolution in nano-NMR experiments have been discussed extensively in recent years. It is believed that there is a crucial difference between the ability to resolve a few frequencies and the precision of estimating a single one. Whereas the efficiency of single frequency estimation gradually increases with the square root of the number of measurements, the ability to resolve two frequencies is limited by the specific timescale of the signal and cannot be compensated for by extra measurements. Here we show theoretically and demonstrate experimentally that the relationship between these quantities is more subtle and both are only limited by the Cramér-Rao bound of a single frequency estimation.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2725615868
FWCI: 0.911
Cites: 37
Cited by: 14
Related to: 10