gas. For a magnetized Bose-Einstein condensed state (BEC) of NB∼(106) atoms in an experimentally realistic geometry, we demonstrate a two- to five-fold amplification of the quantum superposition macroscopicity of the ground state screening current superposition over the bare value without the BEC. Exploiting the connection between and the maximal metrological usefulness of a multimode superposition state, we show that amplification of in the ground state of the hybrid system is equivalent to a decrease in the quantum Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound for estimation of an externally-applied flux. Our result therefore demonstrates the increased usefulness of the BEC–SFQ hybrid system as a sensor of ultraweak magnetic fields below the standard quantum limit.
Amplification of the quantum superposition macroscopicity of a flux qubit by a magnetized Bose gas
We perform a microscopic derivation of the effective flux action of a hybrid quantum system consisting of a superconducting flux qubit (SFQ) in the presence of a spin-F atomic Bose