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For someone concerned with the sensitivity or precision of a measurement, achieving the standard quantum limit has been considered the ultimate challenge. Around 1975, several theoreticians suggested that the standard quantum limit was not in fact a fundamental consequence of the uncertainty principle, and that quantum states existed which allowed more accurate measurements than had previously been thought possible [1]. They even suggested some plausible methods for generating certain of these states, now generally termed “squeezed states,” and defined detection techniques which would demonstrate the noise reduction.
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Levenson, M.D., Shelby, R.M. (1986). Penetrating the Quantum Limit: The Experimentalists’ View. In: Harvey, J.D., Walls, D.F. (eds) Quantum Optics IV. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71407-8_1
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