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Quantum-enhanced measurements exploit quantum mechanical effects for increasing the sensitivity of measurements of certain physical parameters and have great potential for both fundamental science and concrete applications. Most of the…

Quantum coherence is an essential resource for quantum information processing and various quantitative measures of it have been introduced. However, the interconnections between these measures are not yet understood properly. Here, using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Sandeep Mishra , Kishore Thapliyal , Anirban Pathak , Anu Venugopalan

Environment-induced decoherence and superselection have been a subject of intensive research over the past two decades, yet their implications for the foundational problems of quantum mechanics, most notably the quantum measurement problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Maximilian Schlosshauer

In an idealistic setting, quantum metrology protocols allow to sense physical parameters with mean squared error that scales as $1/N^2$ with the number of particles involved---substantially surpassing the $1/N$-scaling characteristic to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Jan Kolodynski

We consider quantum metrology in noisy environments, where the effect of noise and decoherence limits the achievable gain in precision by quantum entanglement. We show that by using tools from quantum error-correction this limitation can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-12 W. Dür , M. Skotiniotis , F. Fröwis , B. Kraus

Quantum physics holds the promise of enabling certain tasks with better performance than possible when only classical resources are employed. The quantum phenomena present in many experiments signify nonclassical behavior, but do not always…

In this work we investigate the relation between quantum measurements and decoherence, in order to formally express the necessity of the latter for obtaining an informative output from the former. To this aim, referring to the Von Neumann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Pietro Liuzzo-Scorpo , Alessandro Cuccoli , Paola Verrucchi

Quantum metrology allows us to attain a measurement precision that surpasses the classically achievable limit by using quantum characters. The metrology precision is raised from the standard quantum limit (SQL) to the Heisenberg limit (HL)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Yuan-Sheng Wang , Chong Chen , Jun-Hong An

Generalized quantum measurements are an important extension of projective or von Neumann measurements, in that they can be used to describe any measurement that can be implemented on a quantum system. We describe how to realize two…

Quantum metrology has many important applications in science and technology, ranging from frequency spectroscopy to gravitational wave detection. Quantum mechanics imposes a fundamental limit on measurement precision, called the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Sisi Zhou , Mengzhen Zhang , John Preskill , Liang Jiang

We introduce a new class of quantum many-particle entangled states, called the Dicke squeezed (or DS) states, which can be used to improve the precision in quantum metrology beyond the standard quantum limit. We show that the enhancement in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhen Zhang , Luming Duan

Measurement outcomes of a quantum state can be genuinely random (unpredictable) according to the basic laws of quantum mechanics. The Heisenberg-Robertson uncertainty relation puts constrains on the accuracy of two noncommuting observables.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Xiao Yuan , Ge Bai , Tianyi Peng , Xiongfeng Ma

Quantum metrology aims to maximize measurement precision on quantum systems, with a wide range of applications in quantum sensing. Achieving the Heisenberg limit (HL) - the fundamental precision bound set by quantum mechanics - is often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Zachary Mann , Ningping Cao , Raymond Laflamme , Sisi Zhou

Coherence underlies quantum phenomena, yet it is manifest in classical theories; delineating coherence's role is a fickle business. The quadrature coherence scale (QCS) was invented to remove such ambiguity, quantifying quantum features of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Aaron Z. Goldberg , Guillaume S. Thekkadath , Khabat Heshami

In quantum metrology, entanglement represents a valuable resource that can be used to overcome the Standard Quantum Limit (SQL) that bounds the precision of sensors that operate with independent particles. Measurements beyond the SQL are…

Quantum metrology exploits quantum resources to enhance measurement precision beyond the classical limit. Conventional protocols normally rely on the preparation of delicate quantum states to acquire these resources, posing a major…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yuan Liu , Ke-Mi Xu , Hong-Bo Sun , Linhan Lin

A key advantage of quantum metrology is the ability to surpass the standard quantum limit~(SQL) for measurement precision through the use of non-classical states. However, there is typically little to no improvement in precision with the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Hao Wu , Clayton Z. C. Ho , Grant D. Mitts , Joshua A. Rabinowitz , Eric R. Hudson

Entanglement and coherence are fundamental properties of quantum systems, promising to power near future quantum technologies, such as quantum computation, quantum communication and quantum metrology. Yet, their quantification, rather than…

Coherence and entanglement are fundamental properties of quantum systems, promising to power the near future quantum computers, sensors and simulators. Yet, their experimental detection is challenging, usually requiring full reconstruction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Graeme Smith , John A. Smolin , Xiao Yuan , Qi Zhao , Davide Girolami , Xiongfeng Ma

Quantum metrology studies the use of entanglement and other quantum resources to improve precision measurement. An interferometer using N independent particles to measure a parameter X can achieve at best the "standard quantum limit" (SQL)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-06 M. Napolitano , M. Koschorreck , B. Dubost , N. Behbood , R. J. Sewell , M. W. Mitchell