One Axis Twisting (OAT) spin squeezing for metrology

Abstract: In this work we study One Axis Twisting (OAT) spin squeezing for metrology in the presence of decoherence. We study Linbladian evolution in the presence of both T_1 and T_2 (longitudinal and transverse relaxation processes). We show that spin squeezing can be an effective way to improve metrological accuracy even in the presence of decoherence for OAT squeezing. We show our results are not sensitive to inhomogeneity of the squeezing strength of the many spin OAT Hamiltonian and that very general squeezed states do not have entanglement enhanced decoherence. We also extend the Kitagawa-Ueda OAT squeezing formula to finite polarization.