Mass sensing connects the mass variation to a frequency shift of a mechanical oscillator, whose limitation is determined by its mechanical frequency resolution. Here we propose a method to enlarge a minute mechanical frequency shift, which is smaller than the linewidth of the mechanical oscillator, into a huge frequency shift of the normal mode. Explicitly, a frequency shift of about 20 Hz of the mechanical oscillator would be magnified to be a 1 MHz frequency shift in the normal mode, which increases it by five orders of magnitude. This enhancement relies on the sensitivity appearing near the quantum critical point of the electromechanical system. We show that a mechanical frequency shift of 1 Hz could be resolved with a mechanical resonance frequency $ω_b = 11\times 2π$ MHz. Namely, an ultrasensitive mechanical mass sensor of the resolution $Δm /m \sim2Δω_b/ω_b\sim 10^{-8}$ could be achieved. Our method has potential application in mass sensing and other techniques based on the frequency shift of a mechanical oscillator.
Observation of Criticality-Enhanced Quantum Sensing in Nonunitary Quantum Walks
Southeast University(东南大学);University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科技大学);Anhui University(安徽大学);Tianfu Jiangxi Laboratory(天府江西实验室);Beijing Computational Science Research Center(北京计算科学研究中心)
Criticality Concentrates Extensive Sensing Information into a Local Readout
Southwest Minzu University(西南民族大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Nankai University(南开大学);Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学量子技术中心);MajuLab, CNRS-UNS-NUS-NTU International Joint Research Unit, Singapore UMI 3654(新加坡UMI 3654 MajuLab中法新南洋国际联合研究实验室);National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学国立教育学院)
Non-Equilibrium Criticality-Enhanced Quantum Sensing with Superconducting Qubits
Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences(北京量子信息科学研究院);University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科技大学);Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院物理研究所)
Criticality-Enhanced Quantum Sensing with a Parametric Superconducting Resonator
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)(洛桑联邦理工学院);Alice & Bob;Institute for Complex Systems, National Research Council (ISC-CNR)(国家研究委员会复杂系统研究所);Sapienza University(罗马第一大学)
Investigating Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Model and Criticality-Enhanced Metrology in a Coherent Ising Machine
Key Laboratory of Multiscale Spin Physics, Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University(北京师范大学多尺度自旋物理教育部重点实验室);School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University(北京师范大学人工智能学院)
Entanglement advantage in sensing power-law spatiotemporal noise correlations
Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, NIST/University of Maryland(量子信息与计算机科学联合中心,美国国家标准与技术研究院/马里兰大学);Joint Quantum Institute, NIST/University of Maryland(量子联合研究所,美国国家标准与技术研究院/马里兰大学);Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago(普里茨克分子工程学院,芝加哥大学)
Tilt-Induced Localization in Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensates for Quantum Sensing
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, A CI of Homi Bhabha National Institute(哈里什-昌德拉研究所,霍米·巴巴国立学院下属机构);Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences(波兰科学院物理研究所)
Quantum-Enhanced Atomic Sensor via Spin Nonequilibrium Criticality
School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学物理与天文学院);Quantum Institute for Light and Atoms, School of Physics, East China Normal University(华东师范大学物理学院光与原子量子研究所);Shanghai Branch, Hefei National Laboratory(合肥国家实验室上海分部);Tsung-Dao Lee institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学李政道研究所);Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University(山西大学极端光学协同创新中心);Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences(上海量子科学研究中心)
Quantum-enhanced sensing of spin-orbit coupling without fine tuning
Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科技大学前沿科学与工程学院);Key Laboratory of Quantum Physics and Photonic Quantum Information, Ministry of Education, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科技大学量子光子学与量子信息教育部重点实验室);Shimmer Center, Tianfu Jiangxi Laboratory(天府江西实验室 shimmer 中心)
Exponential entanglement advantage in sensing correlated noise
Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, NIST/University of Maryland(量子信息与计算机科学联合中心,美国国家标准与技术研究院/马里兰大学);Department of Physics, Harvard University(哈佛大学物理系);Joint Quantum Institute, NIST/University of Maryland(量子信息联合研究所,美国国家标准与技术研究院/马里兰大学);IBM Quantum, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center(IBM量子,IBM托马斯·J·沃森研究中心);Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(韩国科学技术院物理系)
Meson spectroscopy of exotic symmetries of Ising criticality in Rydberg atom arrays
PASQAL SAS(帕斯卡尔公司);Technical University of Munich(慕尼黑工业大学);Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST)(慕尼黑量子科学与技术中心);Imperial College London(伦敦帝国理工学院)
Ergodicity breaking meets criticality in a gauge-theory quantum simulator
University of Belgrade(贝尔格莱德大学);University of Leeds(利兹大学);Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte(北里奥格兰德联邦大学);QuEra Computing Inc.(QuEra计算公司);Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich(慕尼黑路德维希-马克西米利安大学);Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics(马克斯·普朗克量子光学研究所);Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST)(慕尼黑量子科学与工程中心);Kyung Hee University(庆熙大学);Massachusetts Institute of Technology(麻省理工学院)