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Quantum phenomena offer the possibility of measuring physical quantities with precision beyond classical limits. However, current progress is constrained by scalability, environmental noise, and challenges in practical integration. This…

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Quantum metrology protocols are typically designed around the assumption that we have an abundance of measurement data, but recent practical applications are increasingly driving interest in cases with very limited data. In this regime the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-18 Jesús Rubio , Jacob Dunningham

We propose a statistical framework for the problem of parameter estimation from a noisy optomechanical system. The Cram\'er-Rao lower bound on the estimation errors in the long-time limit is derived and compared with the errors of…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-31 Shan Zheng Ang , Glen I. Harris , Warwick P. Bowen , Mankei Tsang

The Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB), a well-known lower bound on the performance of any unbiased parameter estimator, has been used to study a wide variety of problems. However, to obtain the CRB, requires an analytical expression for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hai Victor Habi , Hagit Messer , Yoram Bresler

Quantum Fisher information matrix (QFIM) is a core concept in theoretical quantum metrology due to the significant importance of quantum Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound in quantum parameter estimation. However, studies in recent years have revealed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 Jing Liu , Haidong Yuan , Xiao-Ming Lu , Xiaoguang Wang

A wide variety of imaging systems have been designed to measure phase variations, with applications from physics to biology and medicine. In this work, we theoretically compare the precision of phase estimations achievable with classical…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-21 Dorian Bouchet , Jonathan Dong , Dante Maestre , Thomas Juffmann

In quantum theory, the inescapable interaction between a system and its surroundings would lead to a loss of coherence and leakage of information into the environment. An effective approach to retain the quantum characteristics of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Guohui Dong , Yao Yao

This paper studies quantum limits to dynamical sensors in the presence of decoherence. A modified purification approach is used to obtain tighter quantum detection and estimation error bounds for optical phase sensing and optomechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-04 Mankei Tsang

Precise estimation of physical parameters underpins both scientific discovery and technological development. A central goal of quantum metrology and sensing is to exploit quantum resources like entanglement to devise optimal strategies for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Zhao-Yi Zhou , Da-Jian Zhang

In multiparameter quantum metrology, the ultimate precision of joint estimation is dictated by the Holevo Cram\'er-Rao bound. In this paper, we discuss and analyze in detail an alternative approach: the stepwise estimation strategy. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Gabriele Fazio , Jiayu He , Matteo G. A. Paris

I propose quantum versions of the Ziv-Zakai bounds as alternatives to the widely used quantum Cram\'er-Rao bounds for quantum parameter estimation. From a simple form of the proposed bounds, I derive both a "Heisenberg" error limit that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-07 Mankei Tsang

Bayesian analysis is a framework for parameter estimation that applies even in uncertainty regimes where the commonly used local (frequentist) analysis based on the Cram\'er-Rao bound is not well defined. In particular, it applies when no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Simon Morelli , Ayaka Usui , Elizabeth Agudelo , Nicolai Friis

Quantum-enhanced (i.e., higher performance by quantum effects than any classical methods) mean value estimation of observables is a fundamental task in various quantum technologies; in particular, it is an essential subroutine in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Kaito Wada , Kazuma Fukuchi , Naoki Yamamoto

This paper investigates parameter estimation for open quantum systems under continuous observation, whose conditional dynamics are governed by jump-diffusion stochastic master equations (SMEs) associated with quantum nondemolition (QND)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Weichao Liang , Shuixin Xiao , Daoyi Dong , Ian R. Petersen

The classical Cram\'er-Rao inequality gives a lower bound for the variance of a unbiased estimator of an unknown parameter, in some statistical model of a random process. In this note we rewrite the statment and proof of the bound using…

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Except for the universe, all quantum systems are open, and according to quantum state diffusion theory, many systems localize to wave packets in the neighborhood of phase space points. This is due to decoherence from the interaction with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Todd A. Brun , Ian C. Percival , Rüdiger Schack

We derive lower bounds on the variance of estimators in quantum metrology by choosing test observables that define constraints on the unbiasedness of the estimator. The quantum bounds are obtained by analytical optimization over all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 M. Gessner , A. Smerzi

We investigate the ultimate precision achievable in Gaussian quantum metrology. We derive general analytical expressions for the quantum Fisher information matrix and for the measurement compatibility condition, ensuring asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Rosanna Nichols , Pietro Liuzzo-Scorpo , Paul A. Knott , Gerardo Adesso

In quantum multi-parameter estimation, the precision of estimating unknown parameters is bounded by the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB), defined via the inverse of the Fisher information matrix (FIM). However, in certain scenarios such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Min Namkung , Changhyoup Lee , Hyang-Tag Lim

Quantum-enhanced sensing promises to improve the performance of sensing tasks using non-classical probes and measurements that require far fewer scene-modulated photons than the best classical schemes, thereby granting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Michael R. Grace , Christos N. Gagatsos , Saikat Guha