Average number is an insufficient metric for interferometry

We argue that analysing schemes for metrology solely in terms of the average particle number can obscure the number of particles effectively used in informative events. For a number of states we demonstrate that, in both frequentist and Bayesian frameworks, the average number of a state can essentia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dominic Branford, Jesús Rubio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac3571