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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

"Entanglement-enhanced sensing in a lossy and noisy

The authors would like to thank C. Wilson, C. W. S. Chang,
A. M. Vadiraj, and A. Damini for advice and helpful discussions. They would also like to thank S. Tierney of the DRDC
VisDoc team for her help with Figures 3 and 4. Finally, they
thank the referees for providing useful suggestions that
helped improve this article.

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