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PHYSICAL REVIEW X
Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.021023
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- National Science Foundation [PHY1607223, PHY-1734006]
- Heising-Simons Foundation [2014-183]
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Many experiments that interrogate fundamental theories require detectors whose sensitivities are limited by the laws of quantum mechanics. In cavity-based searches for axionic dark matter, vacuum fluctuations in the two quadratures of the cavity electromagnetic field limit the sensitivity to an axion-induced field. In an apparatus designed to partially mimic existing axion detectors, we demonstrate experimentally that such quantum limits can be overcome through the use of squeezed states. By preparing a microwave cavity in a squeezed state and measuring just the squeezed quadrature, we enhance the spectral scan rate by a factor of 2.12 +/- 0.08. This enhancement is in excellent quantitative agreement with a theoretical model accounting for both imperfect squeezing and measurement.
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