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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…

Optimal measurements for quantum multiparameter estimation are complicated by the uncertainty principle. Generally, there is a trade-off between the precision with which different parameters can be simultaneously estimated. The task of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Simon K. Yung , C. M. Yung , Lorcán O. Conlon , Syed M. Assad

We describe a compact and reliable method to calculate the Fisher information for the estimation of a dynamical parameter in a continuously measured linear Gaussian quantum system. Unlike previous methods in the literature, which involve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-08 Marco G. Genoni

In this article we derive a measure of quantumness in quantum multi-parameter estimation problems. We can show that the ratio between the mean Uhlmann Curvature and the Fisher Information provides a figure of merit which estimates the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Angelo Carollo , Bernardo Spagnolo , Alexander A. Dubkov , Davide Valenti

The power of quantum sensing rests on its ultimate precision limit, quantified by the quantum Cramer-Rao bound (QCRB), which can surpass classical bounds. In multi-parameter estimation, the QCRB is not always saturated as the quantum nature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Changhao Li , Mo Chen , Paola Cappellaro

Recently, a widely-used computation expression for quantum Fisher information was shown to be discontinuous at the parameter points where the rank of the parametric density operator changes. The quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound can be violated on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Yating Ye , Xiao-Ming Lu

Quantum state estimation is a fundamental task in quantum information theory, where one estimates real parameters continuously embedded in a family of quantum states. In the theory of quantum state estimation, the widely used Cram\'er Rao…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Masahito Hayashi , Yingkai Ouyang

We summarise important recent advances in quantum metrology, in connection to experiments in cold gases, trapped cold atoms and photons. First we review simple metrological setups, such as quantum metrology with spin squeezed states, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Geza Toth , Iagoba Apellaniz

The minimum achievable statistical uncertainty in the estimation of physical parameters is determined by the quantum Fisher information. Its computation for noisy systems is still a challenging problem. Using a variational approach, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 B. M. Escher , L. Davidovich , N. Zagury , R. L. de Matos Filho

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

Quantum metrology enhances the sensitivity of parameter estimation using the distinctive resources of quantum mechanics such as entanglement. It has been shown that the precision of estimating an overall multiplicative factor of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-31 Shengshi Pang , Todd A. Brun

Quantum scale estimation, as introduced and explored here, establishes the most precise framework for the estimation of scale parameters that is allowed by the laws of quantum mechanics. This addresses an important gap in quantum metrology,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-18 Jesús Rubio

To any parametric family of states of a finite level quantum system we associate a space of Fisher maps and introduce the natural notions of Cram\'er-Rao-Bhattacharya tensor and Fisher information form. This leads us to an abstract…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-07-14 K. R. Parthasarathy

Precise estimation of physical parameters underpins both scientific discovery and technological development. A central goal of quantum metrology and sensing is to exploit quantum resources like entanglement to devise optimal strategies for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Zhao-Yi Zhou , Da-Jian Zhang

We point out a general framework that encompasses most cases in which quantum effects enable an increase in precision when estimating a parameter (quantum metrology). The typical quantum precision-enhancement is of the order of the square…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vittorio Giovannetti , Seth Lloyd , Lorenzo Maccone

Quantum metrology is a rapidly developing branch of quantum technologies. While various theories have been established on quantum metrology for Markovian processes, i.e., quantum channel estimation, quantum metrology for non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Anian Altherr , Yuxiang Yang

Quantum metrology is studied in the presence of quantum correlation. The quantum correlation measure based on quantum Fisher information enables us to gain a deeper insight on how quantum correlations are instrumental in setting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-30 Manabendra N. Bera

The goal of quantum metrology is to improve measurements' sensitivities by harnessing quantum resources. Metrologists often aim to maximize the quantum Fisher information, which bounds the measurement setup's sensitivity. In studies of…

In quantum metrology, it is widely believed that the quantum Cramer-Rao bound is attainable bound while it is not true. In order to clarify this point, we explain why the quantum Cramer-Rao bound cannot be attained geometrically. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 Masahito Hayashi , Sai Vinjanampathy , L. C. Kwek

We have introduced a measure of Gaussian quantum correlations based on quantum Fisher information. For bipartite Gaussian states the minimum quantum Fisher information due to local unitary evolution on one of the parties reliably quantifies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-20 Manabendra N. Bera