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Because quantum fluctuations impose fundamental limits on the accuracy of measurements, much attention is now being devoted to the problem of moderating or supressing their effect. If a quantity to be measured can be regarded as one of a pair of conjugate variables, for example, then its variance can usually be made arbitrarily small, but only at the expense of increasing the variance of the unmeasured variable. This technique requires putting the system being observed in a special sort of quantum state, referred to as “squeezed” 1.
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Glauber, R.J., Lewenstein, M. (1989). Quantum Optics of Dielectric Media. In: Tombesi, P., Pike, E.R. (eds) Squeezed and Nonclassical Light. NATO ASI Series, vol 190. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6574-8_15
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