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The paper investigates the techniques of quantum computation in metrological predictions, with a particular emphasis on enhancing prediction potential through variational parameter estimation. The applicability of quantum simulations and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Vaidik A Sharma , N. Madurai Meenachi , B. Venkatraman

Quantum parameter estimation holds the promise of quantum technologies, in which physical parameters can be measured with much greater precision than what is achieved with classical technologies. However, how to obtain a best precision when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Jianning Li , Dianzhen Cui , X. X. Yi

The optimal quantum measurements for estimating different unknown parameters in a parameterized quantum state are usually incompatible with each other. Traditional approaches to addressing the measurement incompatibility issue, such as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Sisi Zhou , Senrui Chen

Quantum parameter estimation offers solid conceptual grounds for the design of sensors enjoying quantum advantage. This is realised not only by means of hardware supporting and exploiting quantum properties, but data analysis has its impact…

The estimation of more than one parameter in quantum mechanics is a fundamental problem with relevant practical applications. In fact, the ultimate limits in the achievable estimation precision are ultimately linked with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Sholeh Razavian , Matteo G. A. Paris , Marco G. Genoni

Quantum sensors hold considerable promise for precision measurement, yet their capabilities are inherently constrained by environmental noise. A fundamental task in quantum sensing is determining the precision limit of noisy sensor devices.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Dayou Yang , Moulik Ketkar , Koenraad Audenaert , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

We determine the bound to the maximum achievable sensitivity in the estimation of a scalar parameter from the information contained in an optical image in the presence of quantum noise. This limit, based on the Cramer-Rao bound, is valid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Vincent Delaubert , Nicolas Treps , Claude Fabre , Hans A. Bachor , Philippe Réfrégier

Measurement incompatibility is a cornerstone of quantum mechanics. In the context of estimating multiple parameters of a quantum system, this manifests as a fundamental trade-off between the precisions with which different parameters can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Simon K. Yung , Aritra Das , Jun Suzuki , Ping Koy Lam , Jie Zhao , Lorcán O. Conlon , Syed M. Assad

Measurement estimation bounds for local quantum multiparameter estimation, which provide lower bounds on possible measurement uncertainties, have so far been formulated in two ways: by extending the classical Cram\'er--Rao bound (e.g., the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Simon K. Yung , Lorcan O. Conlon , Jie Zhao , Ping Koy Lam , Syed M. Assad

Quantum metrology leverages quantum resources such as entanglement and squeezing to enhance parameter estimation precision beyond classical limits. While optimal quantum control strategies can assist to reach or even surpass the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Qifei Wei , Shengshi Pang

In a unified viewpoint in quantum channel estimation, we compare the Cramer-Rao and the mini-max approaches, which gives the Bayesian bound in the group covariant model. For this purpose, we introduce the local asymptotic mini-max bound,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-24 Masahito Hayashi

Quantum resources, such as entanglement, can decrease the uncertainty of a parameter-estimation procedure beyond what is classically possible. This phenomenon is well described for noiseless systems with asymptotically many measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-09 Jason Saunders , Jean-Francois Van Huele

Finding the optimal attainable precisions in quantum multiparameter metrology is a non trivial problem. One approach to tackling this problem involves the computation of bounds which impose limits on how accurately we can estimate certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 Lorcán Conlon , Jun Suzuki , Ping Koy Lam , Syed M. Assad

We perform an analysis supplementing the metrology toolbox in the time-frequency domain. While the relevant time-frequency-based metrological protocols can be borrowed from the spatial domain, where they have recently been well developed,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Łukasz Rudnicki , Tomasz Linowski

We present a quantum algorithm to estimate parameters at the quantum metrology limit using deterministic quantum computation with one bit. When the interactions occurring in a quantum system are described by a Hamiltonian $H= \theta H_0$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-03 Rolando D. Somma , Sergio Boixo

The ultimate bound to the accuracy of phase estimates is often assumed to be given by the Heisenberg limit. Recent work seemed to indicate that this bound can be violated, yielding measurements with much higher accuracy than was previously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-20 Dominic W. Berry , Michael J. W. Hall , Marcin Zwierz , Howard M. Wiseman

We study the generalized limit for parameter sensitivity in quantum estimation theory considering the effects of repeated and adaptive measurements. Based on the quantum Ziv-Zakai bound, we derive some lower bounds for parameter sensitivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Yang Gao , Hwang Lee

We derive a bound on the precision of state estimation for finite dimensional quantum systems and prove its attainability in the generic case where the spectrum is non-degenerate. Our results hold under an assumption called local asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-09 Yuxiang Yang , Giulio Chiribella , Masahito Hayashi

In multiparameter quantum metrology, the weighted-arithmetic-mean error of estimation is often used as a scalar cost function to be minimized during design optimization. However, other types of mean error can reveal different facets of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Xiao-Ming Lu , Zhihao Ma , Chengjie Zhang

We discuss the Heisenberg limit in the multiparameter metrology within two different paradigms -- the one, where the measurement is repeated many times (so the Cram\'er-Rao bound is guaranteed to be asymptotically saturable) and the second…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Wojciech Górecki , Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański