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In this work, we present a lower bound on the quantum Fisher information (QFI) which is efficiently computable on near-term quantum devices. This bound itself is of interest, as we show that it satisfies the canonical criteria of a QFI…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 Akira Sone , M. Cerezo , Jacob L. Beckey , Patrick J. Coles

In this work, we investigate quantum Fisher information(QFI) and quantum coherence(QC) of an atom in dissipative cavity. In zero temperature reservior and with one excitation number, we obtain the analytical solutions of QFI and QC as well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Jianhe Yang , Danping Lin , Rongfang Liu , Hong-Mei Zou

Characterizing and calibrating physical qubits is essential for maintaining the performance of quantum processors. A key challenge in this process is the presence of crosstalk that complicates the estimation of individual qubit detunings.…

We investigate the quantum sensing performance of a dephasing qubit as a probe in Ohmic environments, characterized by the coupling strength $\eta$, the Ohmicity parameter $s$, and the cutoff frequency $\omega_c$ to be estimated. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Yuan Ji-Bing , Song Ya-Ju , Tang Shi-Qing , Wang Xin-Wen , Kuang Le-Man

We develop a general perturbative theory of finite-coupling quantum thermometry up to second order in probe-sample interaction. By assumption, the probe and sample are in thermal equilibrium, so the probe is described by the mean-force…

Temperature estimation, known as thermometry, is a critical sensing task for physical systems operating in the quantum regime. Indeed, thermal fluctuations can significantly degrade quantum coherence. Therefore, accurately determining the…

Initialization of a qubit in a pure state is a prerequisite for quantum computer operation. Qubits are commonly initialized by cooling to their ground states through passive thermalization or by using active reset protocols. To accurately…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Anatoly Kulikov , Rohit Navarathna , Arkady Fedorov

We investigate the ultimate quantum limits to the achievable uncertainty in the estimation of the transition frequency between two atomic levels. We focus on Rabi, Ramsey, and coherent population trapping (CPT) techniques, which are widely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Stefano Olivares , Salvatore Micalizio , Matteo G. A. Paris

We demonstrate that memory in an $N$-qubit system subjected to decoherence, is a potential resource for the slow-down of the entanglement decay. We show that this effect can be used to retain the sub shot-noise sensitivity of the parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-17 P. Szankowski , M. Trippenbach , J. Chwedenczuk

Standard optomechanical sensors operating in the low-temperature regime often face fundamental precision limits imposed by vacuum fluctuations. Here, we demonstrate that moving beyond conventional radiation-pressure interactions and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Asghar Ullah , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

The precise measurement of low temperatures is significant for both the fundamental understanding of physical processes and technological applications. In this work, we present a method for low-temperature measurement that improves thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Asghar Ullah , M. Tahir Naseem , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We address the trade-off between information and disturbance in qubit thermometry from the perspective of quantum estimation theory. Given a quantum measurement, we quantify information via the Fisher information of the measurement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-16 Luigi Seveso , Matteo G. A. Paris

In real-time quantum feedback protocols, the record of a continuous measurement is used to stabilize a desired quantum state. Recent years have seen highly successful applications in a variety of well-isolated micro-systems, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 D. J. Wilson , V. Sudhir , N. Piro , R. Schilling , A. Ghadimi , T. J. Kippenberg

A scheme is proposed to estimate the system and environmental parameter, the detuning, temperature and the squeezing strength with a high precision by the two-level atom system. It hasn't been reported that the squeezing strength estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-07 Mengmeng Luo , Wenxiao Liu , Yuetao Chen , Shaoyan Gao

The unknown temperature of a sample may be estimated with minimal disturbance by putting it in thermal contact with an individual quantum probe. If the interaction time is sufficiently long so that the probe thermalizes, the temperature can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Luis A. Correa , Mohammad Mehboudi , Gerardo Adesso , Anna Sanpera

We introduce the estimation protocol for detecting the temperature of the transverse vibrational modes of linear ion crystal. We show that thanks to the laser induced laser coupling between the vibrational modes and the collective spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Peter A. Ivanov

The impact of measurement imperfections on quantum metrology protocols has not been approached in a systematic manner so far. In this work, we tackle this issue by generalising firstly the notion of quantum Fisher information to account for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Yink Loong Len , Tuvia Gefen , Alex Retzker , Jan Kołodyński

We propose an ultra-sensitive mass spectrometer based on a coupled quantum-bit-oscillator system. Under dynamical decoupling control of the quantum bit (qubit), the qubit coherence exhibits a comb structure in time domain. The time-comb…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Nan Zhao , Zhang-qi Yin

The thermometry precision of a sample is a question of both fundamental and technological importance. In this paper, we consider a ring-structure system as our probe to estimate the temperature of a bath. Based on the Markovian master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Li-Sha Guo , Bao-Ming Xu , Jian Zou , Bin Shao

Measurement noise is a major source of noise in quantum metrology. Here, we explore preprocessing protocols that apply quantum controls to the quantum sensor state prior to the final noisy measurement (but after the unknown parameter has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Sisi Zhou , Spyridon Michalakis , Tuvia Gefen