Abstract

We theoretically investigate estimation of the control parameter in a ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate near second order quantum phase transitions. We quantify sensitivity by quantum and classical Fisher information and using the error-propagation formula. For these different metrics, we find the same, beyond-standard-quantum-limit (SQL) scaling with atom number near critical points, and SQL scaling away from critical points. We find that both depletion of the $m_f=0$ Zeeman sub-level and transverse magnetization provide signals of sufficient quality to saturate the sensitivity scaling. To explore the effect of experimental imperfections, we study the scaling around criticality at nonzero temperature and with nonzero detection noise. Our results suggest the feasibility of sub-SQL sensing in ferromagnetic condensates with current experimental capabilities.

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