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Nonlinear interactions are recognized as potential resources for quantum metrology, facilitating parameter estimation precisions that scale as the exponential Heisenberg limit of $2^{-N}$. We explore such nonlinearity and propose an…

The characterization of the Hamiltonian parameters defining a quantum walk is of paramount importance when performing a variety of tasks, from quantum communication to computation. When dealing with physical implementations of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Ilaria Gianani , Claudia Benedetti

A central task in quantum metrology is to exploit quantum correlations to outperform classical sensitivity limits. Metrologically useful entanglement is identified when the quantum Fisher information (QFI) exceeds a separability bound for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Satoya Imai , Augusto Smerzi , Luca Pezzè

We establish general limits on how precise a parameter, e.g. frequency or the strength of a magnetic field, can be estimated with the aid of full and fast quantum control. We consider uncorrelated noisy evolutions of N qubits and show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Pavel Sekatski , Michalis Skotiniotis , Janek Kołodyński , Wolfgang Dür

Quantum metrology is a science about quantum measurements and it plays a key role in precision of quantum parameter estimation. Meanwhile, quantum coherence is an important quantum feature and quantum Fisher information (QFI) is an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Jun-Long Zhao , Li Yu , Ming Yang , Chui-Ping Yang

Hybrid quantum systems with different particle species are fundamental in quantum materials and quantum information science. In this work, we establish a rigorous theoretical framework proving that, given access to an unknown spin-boson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Lixing Zhang , Ze-Xun Lin , Prineha Narang , Di Luo

We investigate the fundamental limits in precision allowed by quantum mechanics from Landau-Zener transitions, concerning Hamiltonian parameters. While the Landau-Zener transition probabilities depend sensitively on the system parameters,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Jing Yang , Shengshi Pang , Andrew N. Jordan

Entanglement is generally considered necessary for achieving the Heisenberg limit in quantum metrology. We construct analogues of Dicke and GHZ states on a single $N+1$ dimensional qudit that achieve precision equivalent to symmetrically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Pragati Gupta

We investigate the advantage of coherent superposition of two different coded channels in quantum metrology. In a continuous variable system, we show that the Heisenberg limit $1/N$ can be beaten by the coherent superposition without the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu , An Min Wang

We explore the performance of the metrology scheme by employing a quantum time flip during encoding, a specific case of processes with indefinite time direction, which we refer to as indefinite time directed metrology (ITDM). In the case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Gaurang Agrawal , Pritam Halder , Aditi Sen De

Quantum mechanics gives a new breakthrough to the field of parameter estimation. In the realm of quantum metrology, the precision of parameter estimation is limited by the quantum Fisher information. We introduce the measures of partial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Dong-Ping Xuan , Zhong-Xi Shen , Wen Zhou , Hua Nan , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhi-Xi Wang

Quantum systems used for metrology can offer enhanced precision over their classical counterparts. The design of quantum sensors can be optimized by maximizing the quantum Fisher information (QFI), which characterizes the precision of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 George Mihailescu , Anthony Kiely , Andrew K. Mitchell

We provide efficient and intuitive tools for deriving bounds on achievable precision in quantum enhanced metrology based on the geometry of quantum channels and semi-definite programming. We show that when decoherence is taken into account,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-19 Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski , Jan Kolodynski , Madalin Guta

We consider the general problem of estimating an unknown control parameter of an open quantum system. We establish a direct relation between the evolution of both system and environment and the precision with which the parameter can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Katarzyna Macieszczak , Madalin Guta , Igor Lesanovsky , Juan P. Garrahan

A central qubit coupled to an Ising ring of $N$ qubits, operating close to a critical point is investigated as a potential precision quantum magnetometer for estimating an applied transverse magnetic field. We compute the Quantum Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Noufal Jaseem , S. Omkar , Anil Shaji

The problem of quantum metrology under the context of a particular non-Markovian quantum evolution is explored. We study the dynamics of the quantum Fisher information (QFI) of a composite quantum probe coupled to a Lorentzian environment,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Nicolás Mirkin , Martin Larocca , Diego Wisniacki

Coherence time is an important resource to generate enhancement in quantum metrology. In this work, based on continuous-variable models, we propose a new design of the signal-probe Hamiltonian which generates an exponential enhancement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Li Sun , Xi He , Chenglong You , Chufan Lv , Bo Li , Seth Lloyd , Xiaoting Wang

Maximizing the precision in estimating parameters in a quantum system subject to instrumentation constraints is cast as a convex optimization problem. We account for prior knowledge about the parameter range by developing a worst-case and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-01 Robert L. Kosut

In quantum metrology, nonlinear many-body interactions can enhance the precision of Hamiltonian parameter estimation to surpass the Heisenberg scaling. Here, we consider the estimation of the interaction strength in linear systems with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Jing Yang , Shengshi Pang , Adolfo del Campo , Andrew N. Jordan

Quantum metrology concerns improving the estimation of an unknown parameter using an optimal measurement scheme on the quantum system. More the optimality of the measurement, the better will be the improvement in sensing the value of the…

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