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A precise measurement of dephasing over a range of timescales is critical for improving quantum gates beyond the error correction threshold. We present a metrological tool, based on randomized benchmarking, capable of greatly increasing the…

Quantum sensors hold considerable promise for precision measurement, yet their capabilities are inherently constrained by environmental noise. A fundamental task in quantum sensing is determining the precision limit of noisy sensor devices.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Dayou Yang , Moulik Ketkar , Koenraad Audenaert , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

For a generic set of Markovian noise models, the estimation precision of a parameter associated with the Hamiltonian is limited by the $1/\sqrt{t}$ scaling where $t$ is the total probing time, in which case the maximal possible quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Sisi Zhou , Liang Jiang

We consider entanglement-assisted frequency estimation by Ramsey interferometry, in the presence of dephasing noise from spatiotemporally correlated environments.By working in the widely employed local estimation regime, we show that even…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Francisco Riberi , Gerardo Paz-Silva , Lorenza Viola

The ability to characterise a Hamiltonian with high precision is crucial for the implementation of quantum technologies. In addition to the well-developed approaches utilising optimal probe states and optimal measurements, the method of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Shushen Qin , Marcus Cramer , Christiane P. Koch , Alessio Serafini

We show that quantification of the performance of quantum-enhanced measurement schemes based on the concept of quantum Fisher information yields asymptotically equivalent results as the rigorous Bayesian approach, provided generic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-13 Marcin Jarzyna , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

We consider a general model of unitary parameter estimation in presence of Markovian noise, where the parameter to be estimated is associated with the Hamiltonian part of the dynamics. In absence of noise, unitary parameter can be estimated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-17 R. Demkowicz-Dobrzanski , J. Czajkowski , P. Sekatski

I show that incoherent dynamics can lead to metrological advantages in quantum sensing. The results rely on the fact that incoherent dynamics lead to an additive contribution to the quantum Fisher information about time. Such an additive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Luis Pedro García-Pintos

Models of spontaneous wavefunction collapse explain the quantum-to-classical transition without invoking the von Neumann measurement postulate. Prominent frameworks, such as the Di\'osi-Penrose (DP) and Continuous Spontaneous Localization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Nicola Bortolotti , Catalina Curceanu , Lajos Diósi , Simone Manti , Kristian Piscicchia

We show that continuous quantum nondemolition (QND) measurement of an atomic ensemble is able to improve the precision of frequency estimation even in the presence of independent dephasing acting on each atom. We numerically simulate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-13 Matteo A. C. Rossi , Francesco Albarelli , Dario Tamascelli , Marco G. Genoni

The Heisenberg limit is acknowledged as the ultimate precision limit in quantum metrology, traditionally implying that root mean square errors of parameter estimation decrease linearly with the time T of evolution and the number N of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Binke Xia , Jingzheng Huang , Yuxiang Yang , Guihua Zeng

A pivotal task in quantum metrology, and quantum parameter estimation in general, is to de- sign schemes that achieve the highest precision with given resources. Standard models of quantum metrology usually assume the dynamics is fixed, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Jing Liu , Haidong Yuan

Quantum phase estimation is a paradigmatic problem in quantum sensing andmetrology. Here we show that adaptive methods based on classical machinelearning algorithms can be used to enhance the precision of quantum phase estimation when noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Nelson Filipe Costa , Yasser Omar , Aidar Sultanov , Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

The detrimental impact of noise on sensing performance in quantum metrology has been widely recognized by researchers in the field. However, there are no explicit fundamental laws of physics stating that noise invariably weakens quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Jia-Xin Peng , Baiqiang Zhu , Weiping Zhang , Keye Zhang

We derive exceedingly simple practical procedures revealing the quantum nature of states and measurements by the violation of classical upper bounds on the statistics of arbitrary measurements. Data analysis is minimum and definite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Ángel Rivas , Alfredo Luis

Quantum metrology aims to enhance measurement precision beyond the standard quantum limit (SQL), the benchmark set by classical resources, enabling advances in sensing, imaging, and fundamental physics. A critical milestone beyond the SQL…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Kimin Park , Tanjung Krisnanda , Yvonne Gao , Radim Filip

Realistic multi-qubit noise processes often result in error mechanisms that are not captured by the probabilistic, Markovian error models commonly employed in circuit-level analyses of quantum fault-tolerance. By working within an…

Quantum metrology aims to maximize measurement precision on quantum systems, with a wide range of applications in quantum sensing. Achieving the Heisenberg limit (HL) - the fundamental precision bound set by quantum mechanics - is often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Zachary Mann , Ningping Cao , Raymond Laflamme , Sisi Zhou

The quantum variables that can be accessed directly by experiments are described by observables. Therefore, physical parameters can only be evaluated indirectly, via estimations based on experimental measurement results. I show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-12 B. M. Escher

We derive the ultimate bounds on the performance of nonlinear measurement schemes in the presence of noise. In particular, we investigate the precision of the second-order estimation scheme in the presence of the two most detrimental types…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-17 Marcin Zwierz , Howard M. Wiseman