# Entanglement and extreme planar spin squeezing

## TL;DR

This paper develops a new entanglement-depth criterion optimized for planar quantum squeezed states, improving detection of entanglement depth and monitoring its dynamics in experimental settings.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel entanglement criterion tailored for PQS states, enhancing detection over previous methods and applied to real experimental data.

## Key findings

- The new criterion detects higher entanglement depth in PQS states.
- It outperforms the S{ exto}rensen-M{ exto}lmer criterion in certain regimes.
- The method successfully monitors entanglement dynamics in a recent experiment.

## Abstract

We introduce an entanglement-depth criterion optimized for planar quantum squeezed (PQS) states. It is connected with the sensitivity of such states for estimating an arbitrary, not necessarily small phase. We compare numerically our criterion with the well-known extreme spin squeezing condition of S{\o}rensen and M{\o}lmer [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4431 (2001)] and show that our condition detects a higher depth of entanglement when both planar spin variances are squeezed below the standard quantum limit. We employ our theory to monitor the entanglement dynamics in a PQS state produced via quantum non-demolition (QND) measurements using data from a recent experiment [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 233603 (2017)].