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Quantum metrology has many important applications in science and technology, ranging from frequency spectroscopy to gravitational wave detection. Quantum mechanics imposes a fundamental limit on measurement precision, called the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Sisi Zhou , Mengzhen Zhang , John Preskill , Liang Jiang

Recently, we find a physical limit on energy consumption of quantum metrology, and demonstrate that it essentially arises from the erasure of quantum Fisher information (QFI) which determines the best achievable measurement precision. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-11 Yaoming Chu , Jianming Cai

Famously, the quantum Fisher information -- the maximum Fisher information over all physical measurements -- is additive for independent copies of a system and the optimal measurement acts locally. We are left to wonder: does the same hold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Javier Navarro , Simon Morelli , Mikel Sanz , Mohammad Mehboudi

Quantum metrology fundamentally relies upon the efficient management of quantum uncertainties. We show that, under equilibrium conditions, the management of quantum noise becomes extremely flexible around the quantum critical point of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Irénée Frérot , Tommaso Roscilde

Quantum metrology allows for a huge boost in the precision of parameters estimation. However, it seems to be extremely sensitive on the noise. Bound entangled states are states with large amount of noise what makes them unusable for almost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 L. Czekaj , A. Przysiezna , M. Horodecki , P. Horodecki

This tutorial introduces a systematic approach for addressing the key question of quantum metrology: For a generic task of sensing an unknown parameter, what is the ultimate precision given a constrained set of admissible strategies. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Qiushi Liu , Zihao Hu , Haidong Yuan , Yuxiang Yang

Probabilistic metrology attempts to improve parameter estimation by occasionally reporting an excellent estimate and the rest of the time either guessing or doing nothing at all. Here we show that probabilistic metrology can never improve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 Joshua Combes , Christopher Ferrie , Zhang Jiang , Carlton M. Caves

Entanglement-enhanced quantum metrology explores the utilization of quantum entanglement to enhance measurement precision. When particles in a probe are prepared into a quantum entangled state, they collectively accumulate information about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Jiahao Huang , Min Zhuang , Chaohong Lee

We investigate the sensing capacity of non-equilibrium dynamics in quantum systems exhibiting Bloch oscillations. By focusing on the resource efficiency of the probe, quantified by quantum Fisher information, we find different scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Hassan Manshouri , Moslem Zarei , Mehdi Abdi , Sougato Bose , Abolfazl Bayat

We introduce quantum parameter estimation with the encoding being via a quantum measurement. We quantify the precision for estimating parameters characterizing a general two-outcome qubit measurement, considering two cases: when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Shuva Mondal , Priya Ghosh , Ujjwal Sen

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

Quantum metrology exploits quantum mechanical effects to increase the precision of measurements of physical quantities. A wide variety of applications are currently being developed for scientific and technological purposes, however, most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 B. J. Alexander , Ş. K. Özdemir , M. S. Tame

Quantum metrology aims to enhance measurement precision beyond the classical limit by leveraging quantum resources. Unlike multi-parameter dynamic quantum metrology, many questions regarding multiparameter quantum metrology at thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Zhu Cao

We introduce a novel protocol, which enables Heisenberg-limited quantum-enhanced sensing using the dynamics of any interacting many-body Hamiltonian. Our approach - dubbed butterfly metrology - utilizes a single application of forward and…

We investigate simultaneous estimation of multi-parameter quantum estimation with time-dependent Hamiltonians. We analytically obtain the maximal quantum Fisher information matrix for two-parameter in time-dependent three-level systems. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu

Quantifying measurement precision in quantum systems is vital for advancing quantum technologies such as sensing, communication, and computation. The quantum Fisher information (QFI) sets the ultimate precision bound in Hermitian systems;…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Javid Naikoo , Ravindra W. Chhajlany , Jan Kołodyński , Adam Miranowicz

Quantum metrology derives its capabilities from the careful employ of quantum resources for carrying out measurements. This advantage, however, relies on refined data postprocessing, assessed based on the variance of the estimated…

We study quantum metrology for unitary dynamics. Analytic solutions are given for both the optimal unitary state preparation starting from an arbitrary mixed state and the corresponding optimal measurement precision. This represents a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Lukas J. Fiderer , Julien M. E. Fraïsse , Daniel Braun

We calculate the quantum Cram\'er--Rao bound for the sensitivity with which one or several parameters, encoded in a general single-mode Gaussian state, can be estimated. This includes in particular the interesting case of mixed Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Olivier Pinel , Pu Jian , Claude Fabre , Nicolas Treps , Daniel Braun

We calculate the quantum Cram\'er--Rao bound for the sensitivity with which one or several parameters, encoded in a general single-mode Gaussian state, can be estimated. This includes in particular the interesting case of mixed Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 O. Pinel , P. Jian , N. Treps , C. Fabre , and D. Braun