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Quantum metrology can achieve far better precision than classical metrology, and is one of the most important applications of quantum technologies in the real world. To attain the highest precision promised by quantum metrology, all steps…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Jing Liu , Mao Zhang , Hongzhen Chen , Lingna Wang , Haidong Yuan

Quantum coherence is a fundamental resource that quantum technologies exploit to achieve performance beyond that of classical devices. A necessary prerequisite to achieve this advantage is the ability of measurement devices to detect…

Quantum metrology offers the potential to surpass its classical counterpart, pushing the boundaries of measurement precision toward the ultimate Heisenberg limit. This enhanced precision is normally attained by utilizing large squeezed…

Network tomography refers to the use of inference techniques for inferring internal network states from end-to-end probes. Quantum probes, implemented by sending blocks of $n$ coherent-state pulses augmented with continuous-variable (CV)…

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The laws of quantum mechanics allow to perform measurements whose precision supersedes results predicted by classical parameter estimation theory. That is, the precision bound imposed by the central limit theorem in the estimation of a…

Measurement incompatibility is a cornerstone of quantum mechanics. In the context of estimating multiple parameters of a quantum system, this manifests as a fundamental trade-off between the precisions with which different parameters can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Simon K. Yung , Aritra Das , Jun Suzuki , Ping Koy Lam , Jie Zhao , Lorcán O. Conlon , Syed M. Assad

We propose that a pulsed quantum optomechanical system can be applied for the problem of quantum parameter estimation, which targets to yield higher precision of parameter estimation utilizing quantum resource than that using classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Qiang Zheng , Yao Yao , Yong Li

We consider the estimation of noise parameters in a quantum channel, assuming the most general strategy allowed by quantum mechanics. This is based on the exploitation of unlimited entanglement and arbitrary quantum operations, so that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Stefano Pirandola , Cosmo Lupo

The aim of the channel estimation is to estimate the parameters encoded in a quantum channel. For this aim, it is allowed to choose the input state as well as the measurement to get the outcome. Various precision bounds are known for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Masahito Hayashi , Yingkai Ouyang

Quantum control is an essential tool for the operation of quantum technologies such as quantum computers, simulators, and sensors. Although there are sophisticated theoretical tools for developing quantum control protocols, formulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Hanhan Li , Alireza Shabani , Mohan Sarovar , Birgitta K. Whaley

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

It is widely accepted that the selection of measurement bases can affect the efficiency of quantum state estimation methods, precision of estimating an unknown state can be improved significantly by simply introduce a set of symmetrical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-31 Chi Zhang , Guo-Yong Xiang , Yong-Sheng Zhang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Quantum metrology is an auspicious discipline of quantum information which is currently witnessing a surge of experimental breakthroughs and theoretical developments. The main goal of quantum metrology is to estimate unknown parameters as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 Nathan Shettell

We consider the statistical properties of photon detection with imperfect detectors that exhibit dark counts and less than unit efficiency, in the context of tomographic reconstruction. In this context, the detectors are used to implement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. M. R. Audenaert , S. Scheel

Quantum filtering is a signal processing technique that estimates the posterior state of a quantum system under continuous measurements and has become a standard tool in quantum information processing, with applications in quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Mankei Tsang

A novel operational method for estimating the efficiency of quantum state tomography protocols is suggested. It is based on a-priori estimation of the quality of an arbitrary protocol by means of universal asymptotic fidelity distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yu. I. Bogdanov , G. Brida , M. Genovese , S. P. Kulik , E. V. Moreva , A. P. Shurupov

We address the problem of distinguishing among a finite collection of quantum states, when the states are not entirely known. For completely specified states, necessary and sufficient conditions on a quantum measurement minimizing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Noam Elron , Yonina C. Eldar

In this work, we consider optimal state discrimination for a quantum system that interacts with an environment, i.e., states evolve under a quantum channel. We show the conditions on a quantum channel and an ensemble of states such that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Spiros Kechrimparis , Tanmay Singal , Chahan M. Kropf , Joonwoo Bae

Quantum effects like entanglement and coherent amplification can be used to drastically enhance the accuracy of quantum parameter estimation beyond classical limits. However, challenges such as decoherence and time-dependent errors hinder…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Yulong Dong , Jonathan A. Gross , Murphy Yuezhen Niu

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
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