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We have introduced a measure of Gaussian quantum correlations based on quantum Fisher information. For bipartite Gaussian states the minimum quantum Fisher information due to local unitary evolution on one of the parties reliably quantifies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-20 Manabendra N. Bera

Fisher information is a lower bound on the uncertainty in the statistical estimation of classical and quantum mechanical parameters. While some deterministic dynamical systems are not subject to random fluctuations, they do still have a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Mohamed Sahbani , Swetamber Das , Jason R. Green

We present a toolbox of new techniques and concepts for the efficient forecasting of experimental sensitivities. These are applicable to a large range of scenarios in (astro-)particle physics, and based on the Fisher information formalism.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Thomas D. P. Edwards , Christoph Weniger

Motivated by the information bound for the asymptotic variance of M-estimates for scale, we define Fisher information of scale of any distribution function F on the real line as a suitable supremum. In addition, we enforce equivariance by a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Peter Ruckdeschel , Helmut Rieder

In many statistical applications that concern mathematical psychologists, the concept of Fisher information plays an important role. In this tutorial we clarify the concept of Fisher information as it manifests itself across three different…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Alexander Ly , Maarten Marsman , Josine Verhagen , Raoul Grasman , Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

The quantum Fisher information constrains the achievable precision in parameter estimation via the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound, which has attracted much attention in Hermitian systems since the 60s of the last century. However, less…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 Jianning Li , Haodi Liu , Zhihai Wang , Xuexi Yi

This paper focuses on parameter estimation and introduces a new method for lower bounding the Bayesian risk. The method allows for the use of virtually \emph{any} information measure, including R\'enyi's $\alpha$, $\varphi$-Divergences, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Amedeo Roberto Esposito , Adrien Vandenbroucque , Michael Gastpar

We prove an extended convexity for quantum Fisher information of a mixed state with a given convex decomposition. This convexity introduces a bound which has two parts: i. classical part associated to the Fisher information of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-09 S. Alipour , A. T. Rezakhani

We introduce new lower bounds for the fractional Fisher information. Equipped with these bounds we study a hyperbolic-parabolic model of chemotaxis and prove the global existence of solutions in certain dissipation regimes.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-05 Rafael Granero-Belinchón

The Fisher information matrix provides a way to measure the amount of information given observed data based on parameters of interest. Many applications of the FIM exist in statistical modeling, system identification, and parameter…

Computation · Statistics 2021-04-16 Xuan Wu

This paper extends the idea of a generalized estimator for a scalar parameter (Vos, 2022) to multi-dimensional parameters both with and without nuisance parameters. The title reflects the fact that generalized estimators provide more than…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-26 Paul Vos , Qiang Wu

The quantum Fisher information (QFI) represents a fundamental concept in quantum physics. On the one hand, it quantifies the metrological potential of quantum states in quantum-parameter-estimation measurements. On the other hand, it is…

The Quantum Fisher information (QFI) quantifies the ultimate precision of estimating a parameter from a quantum state, and can be regarded as a reliability measure of a quantum system as a quantum sensor. However, estimation of the QFI for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Jacob L. Beckey , M. Cerezo , Akira Sone , Patrick J. Coles

Relativistic quantum metrology provides a framework within which we can quantify the quality of measurement and estimation procedures while accounting for both quantum and relativistic effects. The chief measure for describing such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Everett A. Patterson , Robert B. Mann

The estimation of continuous parameters from measured data plays a central role in many fields of physics. A key tool in understanding and improving such estimation processes is the concept of Fisher information, which quantifies how…

Point estimators may not exist, need not be unique, and their distributions are not parameter invariant. Generalized estimators provide distributions that are parameter invariant, unique, and exist when point estimates do not. Comparing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Paul W. Vos

Quantum Fisher information places the fundamental limit to the accuracy of estimating an unknown parameter. Here we shall provide the quantum Fisher information an operational meaning: a mixed state can be so prepared that a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-22 Sixia Yu

Noise affects the performance of quantum technologies, hence the importance of elaborating operative figures of merit that can capture its impact in exact terms. In quantum metrology, the introduction of the Fisher information measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Francesco Albarelli , Ilaria Gianani , Marco G. Genoni , Marco Barbieri

We consider the problem of estimating an arbitrary dynamical parameter of an quantum open system in the input-output formalism. For irreducible Markov processes, we show that in the limit of large times the system-output state can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Catalin Catana , Luc Bouten , Madalin Guta

The mean of an unknown variance-$\sigma^2$ distribution $f$ can be estimated from $n$ samples with variance $\frac{\sigma^2}{n}$ and nearly corresponding subgaussian rate. When $f$ is known up to translation, this can be improved…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Shivam Gupta , Jasper C. H. Lee , Eric Price