Quantum Fisher information and spin squeezing in one-axis twisting model
Wei Zhong, Jing Liu, Jian Ma, Xiao-Guang Wang · Chinese Physics B · 2014
We investigate the dependence of the average parameter estimation precision (APEP), which is defined by the quantum Fisher information, on the polar angle of the initial coherent spin state |θ 0 , φ 0 〉 in a one-axis twisting model. Jin et al. [ New J. Phys. 11 (2009) 073049 ] found that the spin squeezing sensitively depends on the polar angle θ 0 of the initial coherent spin state. We show explicitly that the APEP is robust to the initial polar angle θ 0 in the vicinity of π/2 and a near-Heisenberg limit ∝ 2/ N in quantum single-parameter estimation may still be achieved for states created with the nonlinear evolution of the nonideal coherent spin states θ 0 ∼ π/2. Based on this model, we also consider the effects of the collective dephasing on spin squeezing and the APEP.