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In order to provide a guaranteed precision and a more accurate judgement about the true value of the Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound and its scaling behavior, an upper bound (equivalently a lower bound on the quantum Fisher information) for precision…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-04 R. Yousefjani , S. Salimi , A. S. Khorashad

High-sensitivity accelerometers and gravimeters, achieving the ultimate limits of measurement sensitivity are key tools for advancing both fundamental and applied physics. While numerous platforms have been proposed to achieve this goal,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Salman Sajad Wani , Saif Al-Kuwari , Arshid Shabir , Paolo Vezio , Francesco Marino , Mir Faizal

Quantum measurements, alongside quantum states and processes, form a cornerstone of quantum information processing. However, unlike states and processes, their efficient characterisation remains relatively unexplored. We resolve this…

Thermometry is a fundamental parameter estimation problem which is crucial in the development process of natural sciences. One way to solve this problem is to the extensive used local thermometry theory, which makes use of the classical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Shoukang Chang , Wei Ye , Xuan Rao , Huan Zhang , Liqing Huang , Mengmeng Luo , Yuetao Chen , Qiang Ma , Shaoyan Gao

In any realistic quantum metrology scenarios, the ultimate precision in the estimation of parameters is limited not only by the so-called Heisenberg scaling, but also the environmental noise encountered by the underlying system. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-10 Yao Yao , Li Ge , Xing Xiao , Xiaoguang Wang , C. P. Sun

We give bounds on the average fidelity achievable by any quantum state estimator, which is arguably the most prominently used figure of merit in quantum state tomography. Moreover, these bounds can be computed online---that is, while the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Richard Kueng , Christopher Ferrie

By projecting onto complex optical mode profiles, it is possible to estimate arbitrarily small separations between objects with quantum-limited precision, free of uncertainty arising from overlapping intensity profiles. Here we extend these…

Frequentist and Bayesian phase estimation strategies lead to conceptually different results on the state of knowledge about the true value of the phase shift. We compare the two frameworks and their sensitivity bounds to the estimation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Yan Li , Luca Pezzè , Manuel Gessner , Weidong Li , Augusto Smerzi

We obtain universal (i.e., probe and measurement-independent) performance bounds on ancilla-assisted quantum sensing of multiple parameters of phase-covariant optical channels under energy and mode-number constraints. We first show that for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Ranjith Nair , Mile Gu

Realisation of experiments even on small and medium-scale quantum computers requires an optimisation of several parameters to achieve high-fidelity operations. As the size of the quantum register increases, the characterisation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 F. Martínez-García , D. Vodola , M. Müller

One of the main quests in quantum metrology, and quantum parameter estimation in general, is to find out the highest achievable precision with given resources and design schemes that attain that precision. In this article we present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-23 Haidong Yuan , Chi-Hang Fred Fung

The quantum Cram\'er-Rao (QCR) bound sets the ultimate local precision limit for unbiased multiparameter estimation. Yet, unlike in the single-parameter case, its saturability is not generally guaranteed and is often assessed through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Satoya Imai , Jing Yang , Luca Pezzè

In quantum metrology, it is widely believed that the quantum Cramer-Rao bound is attainable bound while it is not true. In order to clarify this point, we explain why the quantum Cramer-Rao bound cannot be attained geometrically. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 Masahito Hayashi , Sai Vinjanampathy , L. C. Kwek

We consider the problem of quantum multi-parameter estimation with experimental constraints and formulate the solution in terms of a convex optimization. Specifically, we outline an efficient method to identify the optimal strategy for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Kevin C. Young , Mohan Sarovar , Robert Kosut , K. Birgitta Whaley

Quantum Metrology calculates the ultimate precision of all estimation strategies, measuring what is their root mean-square error (RMSE) and their Fisher information. Here, instead, we ask how many bits of the parameter we can recover,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Lorenzo Maccone , Majid Hassani , Chiara Macchiavello

Quantum fidelity is a central tool in quantum information, quantifying how much two quantum states are similar. Here we propose a limit formula for the quantum fidelity between a mixed state and a pure state. As an example of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 Gaetana Spedalieri , Christian Weedbrook , Stefano Pirandola

Several quantities of interest in quantum information, including entanglement and purity, are nonlinear functions of the density matrix and cannot, even in principle, correspond to proper quantum observables. Any method aimed to determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-25 Matteo G. A. Paris

Quantum light is described not only by a quantum state but also by the shape of the electromagnetic modes on which the state is defined. Optical precision measurements often estimate a ``mode parameter'' that determines properties such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Manuel Gessner , Nicolas Treps , Claude Fabre

Quantum metrology is a general term for methods to precisely estimate the value of an unknown parameter by actively using quantum resources. In particular, some classes of entangled states can be used to significantly suppress the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-01 Takanori Sugiyama

Gaussian quantum channels are relevant operations in continuous variable systems. In general, given an arbitrary state, the action on it is well-known provided that the quantum channels are completely characterized. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Jonas F. G. Santos , Carlos H. S. Vieira , Wilder R. Cardoso