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Quantum metrology pursues high-precision measurements of physical quantities by using quantum resources. However, the decoherence generally hinders its performance. Previous work found that the metrological error tends to diverge in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-04 Wei Wu , Jun-Hong An

Quantum metrology pursues the physical realization of higher-precision measurements to physical quantities than the classically achievable limit by exploiting quantum features, such as entanglement and squeezing, as resources. It has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Lin Jiao , Wei Wu , Si-Yuan Bai , Jun-Hong An

Quantum multiparameter estimation involves estimating multiple parameters simultaneously and can be more precise than estimating them individually. Our interest here is to determine fundamental quantum limits to the achievable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Shibdas Roy

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

Quantum metrology promises precision beyond classical limits, yet environmental noise typically degrades the quantum resources required for such enhancement. In this work, we investigate frequency estimation in noisy continuous-variable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Ayan Patra , Manju , Aditi Sen De , Matteo G. A. Paris

Quantum metrology offers an enhanced performance in experiments such as gravitational wave-detection, magnetometry or atomic clocks frequency calibration. The enhancement, however, requires a delicate tuning of relevant quantum features…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-25 Jan Kolodynski , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

Environmental noise can hinder the metrological capabilities of entangled states. While the use of entanglement allows for Heisenberg-limited resolution, the largest permitted by quantum mechanics, deviations from strictly unitary dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Jan Jeske , Jared H. Cole , Susana Huelga

We consider the usage of dynamical decoupling in quantum metrology, where the joint evolution of system plus environment is described by a Hamiltonian. We demonstrate that by ultra-fast unitary control operations acting locally only on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 P. Sekatski , M. Skotiniotis , W. Dür

The Heisenberg limit provides a quadratic improvement over the standard quantum limit, and is the maximum quantum advantage that quantum sensors could provide over classical methods. This limit remains elusive, however, because of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Yingkai Ouyang , Gavin K. Brennen

Heisenberg scaling characterizes the ultimate precision of parameter estimation enabled by quantum mechanics, which represents an important quantum advantage of both theoretical and technological interest. Here, we study the attainability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Masahito Hayashi , Zi-Wen Liu , Haidong Yuan

We compare critical quantum sensing to passive quantum strategies to perform frequency estimation, in the case of single-mode quadratic Hamiltonians. We show that, while in the unitary case both strategies achieve precision scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Uesli Alushi , Wojciech Górecki , Simone Felicetti , Roberto Di Candia

In the Quantum Supremacy regime, quantum computers may overcome classical machines on several tasks if we can estimate, mitigate, or correct unavoidable hardware noise. Estimating the error requires classical simulations, which become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Nicolo Colombo

Quantum entanglement and coherence often allow for protocols that outperform classical ones in estimating a system's parameter. When using infinite-dimensional probes (such as a bosonic mode), one could in principle obtain infinite…

Continuously monitored atomic spin-ensembles allow, in principle, for real-time sensing of external magnetic fields beyond classical limits. Within the linear-Gaussian regime, thanks to the phenomenon of measurement-induced spin-squeezing,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Julia Amoros-Binefa , Jan Kolodynski

Quantum effects in metrology can in principle enhance measurement precision from the so-called standard quantum limit to the Heisenberg Limit. Further advancements in quantum metrology largely rely on innovative metrology protocols that can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Zhixing Zou , Jiangbin Gong , Weitao Chen

We prove the Zeno limit $N^{3/2}$ of the quantum Fisher information for frequency estimation with a general initial state of $N$ two-level atoms in the presence of local non-Markovian dephasing noise, which was demonstrated for a GHZ state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-07 Katarzyna Macieszczak

Quantum instruments derived from composite systems allow greater measurement precision than their classical counterparts due to coherences maintained between N components; spins, atoms or photons. Decoherence that plagues real-world devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 Sergey I. Knysh , Edward H. Chen , Gabriel A. Durkin

Precision measurements of frequency are critical to accurate timekeeping, and are fundamentally limited by quantum measurement uncertainties. While for time-independent quantum Hamiltonians, the uncertainty of any parameter scales at best…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 M. Naghiloo , A. N. Jordan , K. W. Murch

Recent technological developments have focused the interest of the quantum computing community on investigating how near-term devices could outperform classical computers for practical applications. A central question that remains open is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Daniel Stilck Franca , Raul Garcia-Patron

Entanglement enhanced quantum metrology has been well investigated for beating the standard quantum limit (SQL). However, the metrological advantage of entangled states becomes much more elusive in the presence of noise. Under strictly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-05 Huan Cao , Chao Zhang , Yun-Feng Huang , Bi-Heng Liu , Chuan-Feng Li , Philip Walther , Guang-Can Guo