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The emergence of a collective behavior in a many-body system is responsible of the quantum criticality separating different phases of matter. Interacting spin systems in a magnetic field offer a tantalizing opportunity to test different…

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Measurements of an object's temperature are important in many disciplines, from astronomy to engineering, as are estimates of an object's spatial configuration. We present the quantum optimal estimator for the temperature of a distant body…

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Finding the precise location of quantum critical points is of particular importance to characterise quantum many-body systems at zero temperature. However, quantum many-body systems are notoriously hard to study because the dimension of…

We study a Hamiltonian system describing a three-spin-1/2 cluster-like interaction competing with an Ising-like anti-ferromagnetic interaction. We compute free energy, spin correlation functions and entanglement both in the ground and in…

Precise thermometry for quantum systems is important to the development of new technology, and understanding the ultimate limits to precision presents a fundamental challenge. It is well known that optimal thermometry requires projective…

We analyze the scaling of quantum Fisher information with the number of system particles in the limit of large number of particles, as a function of the number of parties interacting with each other, for encoding Hamiltonians having…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Aparajita Bhattacharyya , Debarupa Saha , Ujjwal Sen

We consider generalized quantum Ising models, including those which could describe disordered materials or quantum annealers, and we prove that for all temperatures above a system-size independent threshold the path integral Monte Carlo…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Elizabeth Crosson , Samuel Slezak

We consider the estimation of an unknown parameter $\theta$ via a many-body probe. The probe is initially prepared in a product state and many-body time-independent interactions enhance its $\theta$-sensitivity during the dynamics and/or in…

Critical phenomena at finite temperature underpin a broad range of physical systems, yet their study remains challenging due to computational bottlenecks near phase transitions. Quantum annealers have attracted significant interest as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-11 Gianluca Teza , Francesco Campaioli , Marco Avesani , Oren Raz

The relationship between the mean-field approximations in various interacting models of statistical physics and measures of classical and quantum correlations is explored. We present a method that allows us to bound the total amount of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vlatko Vedral

We address the question whether the super-Heisenberg scaling for quantum estimation is realizable. We unify the results of two approaches. In the first one, the original system is compared with its copy rotated by the parameter dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Marek M. Rams , Piotr Sierant , Omjyoti Dutta , Paweł Horodecki , Jakub Zakrzewski

Entangled many-body states enable high-precision quantum sensing beyond the standard quantum limit. We develop interferometric sensing protocols based on quantum critical wavefunctions and compare their performance with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Yinan Chen , Sara Murciano , Pablo Sala , Jason Alicea

In recent years, we have witnessed an explosion of experimental tools by which quantum systems can be manipulated in a controlled and coherent way. One of the most important goals now is to build quantum simulators, which would open up the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Frank Verstraete , J. Ignacio Cirac , Jose I. Latorre

Quantum criticality has received extensive attention due to its ability to significantly enhance quantum sensing. But its realization and control in many-body quantum systems remain challenging. We present an effective scheme to simulate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Shuang-Quan Ma , Jing-Yi-Ran Jin , Chen-Rui Fan , Chuan Wang , Qing Ai

An improved unified formulation based on the effective field theory is introduced for a spin-1/2 Ising model with nearest neighbor interactions with arbitrary coordination number z. Present formulation is capable of calculating all the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-14 Ümit Akıncı

We consider the use of quantum noise to characterize many-body states of spin systems realized with ultracold atomic systems. These systems offer a wealth of experimental techniques for realizing strongly interacting many-body states in a…

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The scaling of the entanglement entropy at a quantum critical point allows us to extract universal properties of the state, e.g., the central charge of a conformal field theory. With the rapid improvement of noisy intermediate-scale quantum…

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Assuming a well-behaving quantum-to-classical transition, measuring large quantum systems should be highly informative with low measurement-induced disturbance, while the coupling between system and measurement apparatus is "fairly simple"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Tomer Jack Barnea , Marc-Olivier Renou , Florian Fröwis , Nicolas Gisin

The ability to characterise a Hamiltonian with high precision is crucial for the implementation of quantum technologies. In addition to the well-developed approaches utilising optimal probe states and optimal measurements, the method of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Shushen Qin , Marcus Cramer , Christiane P. Koch , Alessio Serafini

The investigation of many-body interactions holds significant importance in both quantum foundations and information. Hamiltonians coupling multiple particles at once, beyond others, can lead to a faster entanglement generation, multiqubit…