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Evading noise in multiparameter quantum metrology with indefinite causal order

Quantum Physics 2023-09-27 v1

Abstract

Quantum theory allows the traversing of multiple channels in a superposition of different orders. When the order in which the channels are traversed is controlled by an auxiliary quantum system, various unknown parameters of the channels can be estimated by measuring only the control system, even when the state of the probe alone would be insensitive. Moreover, increasing the dimension of the control system increases the number of simultaneously estimable parameters, which has important metrological ramifications. We demonstrate this capability for simultaneously estimating both unitary and noise parameters, including multiple parameters from the same unitary such as rotation angles and axes and from noise channels such as depolarization, dephasing, and amplitude damping in arbitrary dimensions. We identify regimes of unlimited advantages, taking the form of p2p^2 smaller variances in estimation when the noise probability is 1p1-p, for both single and multiparameter estimation when using our schemes relative to any comparable scheme whose causal order is definite.

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@article{arxiv.2309.07220,
  title  = {Evading noise in multiparameter quantum metrology with indefinite causal order},
  author = {A. Z. Goldberg and L. L. Sanchez-Soto and K. Heshami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.07220},
  year   = {2023}
}

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18 pages, 7 figures

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