A Machine-Designed Sensor to Make Optimal Use of Entanglement-Generating Dynamics for Quantum Sensing

Abstract

We use machine optimisation to develop a quantum sensing scheme that achieves significantly better sensitivity than traditional schemes with the same quantum resources. Utilising one-axis twisting dynamics to generate quantum entanglement, we find that rather than dividing the temporal resources into seperate "state-preparation" and "interrogation" stages, a complicated machine-designed sequence of rotations allows for the generation of metrologically useful entanglement while the parameter is interrogated. This provides much higher sensitivities for a given total time compared to states generated via traditional one-axis twisting schemes. This approach could be applied to other methods of generating quantum-enhanced states, allowing for atomic clocks, magnetometers, and inertial sensors with increased sensitivities.