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We consider the problem, where a camera is tasked with determining one of two hypotheses: first with an incoherently-radiating quasi-monochromatic point source and the second with two identical closely spaced point sources. We are given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Hari Krovi , Saikat Guha , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

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

In quantum metrology, one of the major applications of quantum technologies, the ultimate precision of estimating an unknown parameter is often stated in terms of the Cram\'er-Rao bound. Yet, the latter is no longer guaranteed to carry an…

We formulate multiparameter quantum estimation in the parametric and semiparametric setting. While the Holevo Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) requires no substantial modifications in moving from the former to the latter, we generalize the Helstrom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Francesco Albarelli , Mankei Tsang , Animesh Datta

A longstanding problem in quantum metrology is how to extract as much information as possible in realistic scenarios with not only multiple unknown parameters, but also limited measurement data and some degree of prior information. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Jesús Rubio , Jacob Dunningham

We investigate the ultimate quantum limit of resolving the temperatures of two thermal sources affected by the diffraction. More quantum Fisher information can be obtained with the priori information than that without the priori…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu , An Min Wang

It is shown that the maximal phase sensitivity of a two-path interferometer with high-intensity coherent light and squeezed vacuum in the input ports can be achieved by photon-number-resolving detection of only a small number of photons in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Jun-Yi Wu , Norifumi Toda , Holger F. Hofmann

Motivated by the importance of optical microscopes to science and engineering, scientists have pondered for centuries how to improve their resolution and the existence of fundamental resolution limits. In recent years, a new class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Mankei Tsang

We experimentally and numerically tested the separability of two independent equally-luminous monochromatic and white light sources at the diffraction limit, using Optical Vortices (OV), related to the Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 F. Tamburini , G. Anzolin , G. Umbriaco , A. Bianchini , C. Barbieri

A version of quantum Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound dictates that the covariance of any set of operators is bounded by a product of the derivatives of expectation values and the inverse of quantum metric. We elaborate that because quantum metric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Wei Chen

We proposed a method to achieve superresolved optical imaging without beating the diffraction limit of light. This is achieved by magnifying the ideal optical image of the object through higher-order spatial frequency generation while…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-08 Zhixiang Li , Jianji Liu , Guoquan Zhang

It has been recently suggested that optical interferometers may not require a phase-stable optical link between the stations if instead sources of quantum-mechanically entangled pairs could be provided to them, enabling extra-long baselines…

We carefully examine critical metrology and present an improved critical quantum metrology protocol which relies on quenching a system exhibiting a superradiant quantum phase transition beyond its critical point. We show that this approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Karol Gietka , Lewis Ruks , Thomas Busch

In this first part, a computable outer bound is proved for the multiterminal source coding problem, for a setup with two encoders, discrete memoryless sources, and bounded distortion measures.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sergio D. Servetto

We consider the problem of estimating the state of a large but finite number $N$ of identical quantum systems. In the limit of large $N$ the problem simplifies. In particular the only relevant measure of the quality of the estimation is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 R. D. Gill , S. Massar

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

A usual assumption in quantum estimation is that the unknown parameter labels the possible states of the system, while it influences neither the sample space of outcomes nor the measurement aimed at extracting information on the parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Luigi Seveso , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Matteo G. A. Paris

The ability to determine precisely the separation of two frequencies is fundamental to spectroscopy, yet the resolution limit poses a critical challenge: distinguishing two incoherent signals becomes impossible when their frequencies are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Qingyun Cao , Genko T. Genov , Yaoming Chu , Jianming Cai , Yu Liu , Alex Retzker , Fedor Jelezko

The wave-particle duality of light introduces two fundamental problems to imaging, namely, the diffraction limit and the photon shot noise. Quantum information theory can tackle them both in one holistic formalism: model the light as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-10 Mankei Tsang

We consider passive imaging tasks involving discrimination between known candidate objects and investigate the best possible accuracy with which the correct object can be identified. We analytically compute quantum-limited error bounds for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Michael R Grace , Saikat Guha