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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

Mixture models, such as Gaussian mixture models, are widely used in machine learning to represent complex data distributions. A key challenge, especially in high-dimensional settings, is to determine the mixture order and estimate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Srećko Đurašinović , Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Victor Magron

We present a framework for the quantum enhanced estimation of multiple parameters corresponding to non-commuting unitary generators. Our formalism provides a recipe for the simultaneous estimation of all three components of a magnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Tillmann Baumgratz , Animesh Datta

Quantum metrology exploits quantum correlations to make precise measurements with limited particle numbers. By utilizing inter- and intra- mode correlations in an optical interferometer, we find a state that combines entanglement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 P. A. Knott , T. J. Proctor , A. J. Hayes , J. P. Cooling , J. A. Dunningham

We present an iterative method to solve the multipartite quantum state estimation problem. We demonstrate convergence for any informationally complete set of generalized quantum measurements in every finite dimension. Our method exhibits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Daniel Uzcategui Contreras , Gabriel Senno , Dardo Goyeneche

The field of quantum metrology seeks to apply quantum techniques and/or resources to classical sensing approaches with the goal of enhancing the precision in the estimation of a parameter beyond what can be achieved with classical…

Quantum measurements, alongside quantum states and processes, form a cornerstone of quantum information processing. However, unlike states and processes, their efficient characterisation remains relatively unexplored. We resolve this…

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

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…

We construct optimal measurements, achieving the ultimate precision predicted by quantum theory, for the simultaneous estimation of centroid, separation, and relative intensities of two incoherent point sources using a linear optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 J. Rehacek , Z. Hradil , D. Koutny , J. Grover , A. Krzic , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

This paper studies the quantization of the electromagnetic field on a flat Euclidean background with boundaries. One-loop scaling factors are evaluated for the one-boundary and two-boundary backgrounds. The mode-by-mode analysis of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Esposito , A. Yu. Kamenshchik , I. V. Mishakov , G. Pollifrone

Estimation of quantum states and measurements is crucial for the implementation of quantum information protocols. The standard method for each is quantum tomography. However, quantum tomography suffers from systematic errors caused by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 Adam C. Keith , Charles H. Baldwin , Scott Glancy , E. Knill

Quantum metrology allows us to attain a measurement precision that surpasses the classically achievable limit by using quantum characters. The metrology precision is raised from the standard quantum limit (SQL) to the Heisenberg limit (HL)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Yuan-Sheng Wang , Chong Chen , Jun-Hong An

Estimation of a global parameter defined as a weighted linear combination of unknown multiple parameters can be enhanced by using quantum resources. Advantageous quantum strategies may vary depending on the weight distribution, requiring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Changhun Oh , Liang Jiang , Changhyoup Lee

There has been much work in the recent past in developing the idea of quantum geometry to characterize and understand the structure of many-particle states. For mean-field states, the quantum geometry has been defined and analysed in terms…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-03 S. R. Hassan , Ankita Chakrabarti , R. Shankar

The estimation of multiple parameters is a ubiquitous requirement in many quantum metrology applications. However, achieving the ultimate precision limit, i.e. the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound, becomes challenging in these scenarios compared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 Ben Wang , Kaimin Zheng , Qian Xie , Aonan Zhang , Liang Xu , Lijian Zhang

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

A quantum theory of multiphase estimation is crucial for quantum-enhanced sensing and imaging and may link quantum metrology to more complex quantum computation and communication protocols. In this letter we tackle one of the key…

Quantum sensors allow the estimation of parameters with precision higher than that obtained with classical strategies. Devices based on quantum physics have allowed the precise estimation of the gravitational field, the detailed imaging of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Luiz Davidovich

We exhibit measurements for optimal state estimation which have a finite number of outcomes. This is achieved by a connection between finite optimal measurements and Gauss quadratures. The example we consider to illustrate this connection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-18 Sofyan Iblisdir , Jérémie Roland