A search algorithm for quantum state engineering and metrology

@article{Liu2015ASA,
  title={A search algorithm for quantum state engineering and metrology},
  author={Jing Liu and Xiaowei Lu and Zhe Sun and Rupamanjari Ghosh},
  journal={New Journal of Physics},
  year={2015},
  volume={18},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:2721958}
}
The algorithm efficiently produces a number of novel solutions that find experimentally ready schemes to produce states that show significant improvements over the state-of-the-art, and can measure with a precision that beats the shot noise limit.
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