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Accurate phase extraction from sinusoidal signals is a crucial task in various signal processing applications. While prior research predominantly addresses the case of asynchronous sampling with unknown signal frequency, this study focuses…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-01 Emmanuel Dervieux , Florian Tilquin , Alexis Bisiaux , Wilfried Uhring

Optical phase estimation is a vital measurement primitive that is used to perform accurate measurements of various physical quantities like length, velocity and displacements. The precision of such measurements can be largely enhanced by…

The problem of estimating the frequency of a two-level atom in a noisy environment is studied. Our interest is to minimise both the energetic cost of the protocol and the statistical uncertainty of the estimate. In particular, we prepare a…

High-precision optical phase stabilization in quantum networks is fundamentally constrained by the strict photon-flux and duty-cycle limits required to avoid disturbing fragile quantum states. This challenge becomes especially critical when…

We investigate the simultaneous estimation of two optical phases in a three-mode interferometer assisted by optical parametric amplification (OPA). By employing the normally ordered characteristic-function formalism, we analytically obtain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Huan Zhang , Guofu Yin , Ying Xia , Xiuxing Zhang , Shoukang Chang , Wei Ye

When standard light sources are employed, the precision of the phase determination is limited by the shot noise. Quantum entanglement provides means to exceed this limit with the celebrated example of N00N states that saturate the ultimate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-01 M. Kacprowicz , R. Demkowicz-Dobrzanski , W. Wasilewski , K. Banaszek , I. A. Walmsley

The capacity of a point-to-point discrete-time multi-input-multiple-output (MIMO) channel with phase uncertainty (MIMO phase noise channel) is still open. As a matter of fact, even the pre-log (multiplexing gain) of the capacity in the high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Sheng Yang , Shlomo Shamai

Quantum metrology aims to exploit quantum phenomena to overcome classical limitations in the estimation of relevant parameters. We consider a probe undergoing a phase shift $\varphi$ whose generator is randomly sampled according to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Rozhin Yousefjani , Rosanna Nichols , Shahriar Salimi , Gerardo Adesso

Reliable state estimation hinges on accurate specification of sensor noise covariances, which weigh heterogeneous measurements. In practice, these covariances are difficult to identify due to environmental variability, front-end…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Haoying Li , Yifan Peng , Xinghan Li , Junfeng Wu

The accumulation of quantum phase in response to a signal is the central mechanism of quantum sensing, as such, loss of phase information presents a fundamental limitation. For this reason approaches to extend quantum coherence in the…

The quantum phase estimation (QPE) is one of the fundamental algorithms based on the quantum Fourier transform. It has applications in order-finding, factoring, and finding the eigenvalues of unitary operators. The major challenge in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Muhammad Faizan , Muhammad Faryad

We propose a novel formulation for phase synchronization -- the statistical problem of jointly estimating alignment angles from noisy pairwise comparisons -- as a nonconvex optimization problem that enforces consistency among the pairwise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Tingran Gao , Zhizhen Zhao

Various phase concepts may be treated as special cases of the maximum likelihood estimation. For example the discrete Fourier estimation that actually coincides with the operational phase of Noh, Fouge`res and Mandel is obtained for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jaroslav Rehacek , Zdenek Hradil , Michael Zawisky , Saverio Pascazio , Helmut Rauch , Jan Perina

Quantum phase estimation is the workhorse behind any quantum algorithm and a promising method for determining ground state energies of strongly correlated quantum systems. Low-cost quantum phase estimation techniques make use of circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 T. E. O'Brien , B. Tarasinski , B. M. Terhal

We give an iterative algorithm for phase estimation of a parameter theta, which is within a logarithmic factor of the Heisenberg limit. Unlike other methods, we do not need any entanglement or an extra rotation gate which can perform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-22 Caleb J O'Loan

In an idealistic setting, quantum metrology protocols allow to sense physical parameters with mean squared error that scales as $1/N^2$ with the number of particles involved---substantially surpassing the $1/N$-scaling characteristic to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Jan Kolodynski

We consider the problem of estimating multiple phases using a multi-mode interferometer. In this setting we show that while global strategies with multi-mode entanglement can lead to high precision gains, the same precision enhancements can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 P. A. Knott , T. J. Proctor , A. J. Hayes , J. F. Ralph , P. Kok , J. A. Dunningham

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

We demonstrate accurate phase measurement from low photon level interference data using a constrained optimization method that takes into account the expected redundancy in the unknown phase function. This approach is shown to have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Mandeep Singh , Kedar Khare , Anand Kumar Jha , Shashi Prabhakar , R. P. Singh

To reduce the signaling overhead of over-the-air computation, a hybrid channel estimation scheme is proposed, where reciprocity-based and feedback-based channel estimation are combined. In particular, the impact of quantized phase-feedback…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Martin Dahl , Erik G. Larsson