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Saturating the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound using LOCC

Quantum Physics 2020-07-21 v3

Abstract

The quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound (QCRB) provides an ultimate precision limit allowed by quantum mechanics in parameter estimation. Given any quantum state dependent on a single parameter, there is always a positive-operator valued measurement (POVM) saturating the QCRB. However, the QCRB-saturating POVM cannot always be implemented efficiently, especially in multipartite systems. In this paper, we show that the POVM based on local operations and classical communication (LOCC) is QCRB-saturating for arbitrary pure states or rank-two mixed states with varying probability distributions over fixed eigenbasis. Local measurements without classical communication, however, is not QCRB-saturating in general.

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@article{arxiv.1809.06017,
  title  = {Saturating the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound using LOCC},
  author = {Sisi Zhou and Chang-Ling Zou and Liang Jiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.06017},
  year   = {2020}
}

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13 pages, 2 figures, published version

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