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Charging a quantum spin network towards Heisenberg-limited precision

Quantum Physics 2025-07-03 v1

Abstract

We present a cooperative protocol to charge quantum spin networks up to the highest-energy configuration, in terms of the network's magnetization. The charging protocol leverages spin-spin interactions and the crossing of a phase transition's critical point. Exploiting collective dynamics of the spin network, the cooperative protocol guarantees a precision advantage over any local charging protocol and leads to fluctuations (standard deviation) of the magnetization that scale as 1/N1/N, with NN being the number of spins in the network, i.e., the size of the spin battery. These findings mirror the Heisenberg limit for precision for parameter estimation in quantum metrology. We test our protocol on the D-Wave's Advantage quantum processing unit by charging sub-lattices with sizes ranging from 4040 to 56125\,612 spins, achieving the maximum magnetization and reaching a scalable charging precision beyond the standard quantum limit of 1/N1/\sqrt{N}.

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@article{arxiv.2410.22212,
  title  = {Charging a quantum spin network towards Heisenberg-limited precision},
  author = {Beatrice Donelli and Stefano Gherardini and Raffaele Marino and Francesco Campaioli and Lorenzo Buffoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.22212},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

13 pages, 10 figures

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