Programmable Cavity Squeezing for Distributed Sensing in a Tweezer Array

Abstract:Field sensing with state-of-the-art atom interferometers is restricted to the use of uncorrelated devices op- erating in parallel. We can overcome this limitation by using distributed sensing protocols where quantum correlations among spatially-separated devices are engineered in the spatial mode carrying the signal. We show that a tweezer array in a cavity offers an ideal testbed to engineer quantum states for distributed sensing, with the possibility to generate entanglement both within and between the clouds. The competition between local and intercloud cavity-mediated exchange allows the sign and spatial pattern of the intercloud couplings to select the squeezed mode. For two ensembles, positive coupling produces uniform collective squeezing, whereas negative coupling generates strong staggered, nonlocal squeezing. A semiclassical analysis reveals a counter-twisting- like phase-space flow, qualitatively distinct from standard one-axis twisting. The analysis and results can be further generalized to a larger number of ensembles. We apply the scheme to differential Ramsey interferometry with common phase noise spanning the full 2 \pi range, the resulting staggered states reduce the phase uncertainty below the standard quantum limit, with an ellipse estimator approaching the Cramèr-Rao bound. These results establish programmable cavity interactions as a scalable route to entanglement tailored to distributed signals.

Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)

arXiv:2608.27132 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2608.27132v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

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