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Quantum Fisher information is the principal tool used to give the ultimate precision bound on the estimation of parameters for quantum channels. In this work, we present analytical expressions for the quantum Fisher information with three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Lorenzo M. Procopio

There has been much recent interest in quantum optical interferometry for applications to metrology, sub-wavelength imaging, and remote sensing, such as in quantum laser radar (LADAR). For quantum LADAR, atmospheric absorption rapidly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yang Gao , Christoph F. Wildfeuer , Petr M. Anisimov , Hwang Lee , Jonathan P. Dowling

Indistinguishable quantum states interfere, but the mere possibility of obtaining information that could distinguish between overlapping states inhibits quantum interference. Quantum interference imaging can outperform classical imaging or…

We propose a channel-loss-independent quantum-enhanced interferometer. In our scheme, the Fisher information for phase difference of weak light from a remote star remains constant under arbitrarily large channel loss, and the angular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Yi-Xin Shen , Zhou-Kai Cao , Jian Leng , Xiang-Bin Wang

We present a new technique for overcoming confusion noise in deep far-infrared \Herschel space telescope images making use of prior information from shorter $\lambda<2$\micron wavelengths. For the deepest images obtained by \Herschels, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh , Henry C. Ferguson , Yu Lu , Hanae Inami , Rachel S. Somerville

Based on the conventional Mach-Zehnder interferometer, we propose a metrological scheme to improve phase sensitivity. In this scheme, we use a coherent state and a squeezed vacuum state as input states, employ multi-photon-subtraction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Qisi Zhou , Qinqian Kang , Tao Jiang , Zekun Zhao , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

In recent times, distributed sensing has been extensively studied using squeezed states. While this is an excellent development, it is desirable to investigate the use of other quantum probes, such as entangled states of light. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Jiaxuan Wang , Girish Agarwal

Entangled multi-photon states have the potential to provide improved measurement accuracy, but are sensitive to photon loss. It is possible to calculate ideal loss-resistant states that maximize the Fisher information, but it is unclear how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 Hossein T. Dinani , Dominic W. Berry

Quantum Fisher information matrix (QFIM) is a core concept in theoretical quantum metrology due to the significant importance of quantum Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound in quantum parameter estimation. However, studies in recent years have revealed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 Jing Liu , Haidong Yuan , Xiao-Ming Lu , Xiaoguang Wang

We establish fundamental bounds on subwavelength resolution for the radar ranging problem, ``super radar''. Information theoretical metrics are applied to probe the resolution limits for the case of both direct electric field measurement…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-04 Andrew N. Jordan , John C. Howell

We analyze the quantum limit of sensitivity in four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM), which has emerged as a favored technique for imaging the structure of a wide variety of materials, including biological and…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-14 Christian Dwyer , David M. Paganin

We derive upper bounds on the quantum Fisher information in interferometry with $N$ subsystems, e.g. two-level atoms or Gaussian modes, in the presence of arbitrarily correlated Gaussian dephasing including independent and collective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-06 Katarzyna Macieszczak

We provide a quantitative analysis of super-resolution imaging techniques which exploit temporal fluctuations of luminosity of the sources in order to beat the Rayleigh limit. We define an operationally justified resolution gain figure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Stanislaw Kurdzialek , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

Photon statistics of an optical field can be used for quantum optical sensing in low light level scenarios free of bulky optical components. However, photon-number-resolving detection to unravel the photon statistics is challenging. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 F. Bao , L. Bauer , A. E. Rubio Lopez , Z. Jacob

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…

Spatially resolving two incoherent point sources whose separation is well below the diffraction limit dictated by classical optics has recently been shown possible using techniques that decompose the incoming radiation into orthogonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 J. O. de Almeida , J. Kołodyński , C. Hirche , M. Lewenstein , M. Skotiniotis

Variance and Fisher information are ingredients of the Cramer-Rao inequality. We regard Fisher information as a Riemannian metric on a quantum statistical manifold and choose monotonicity under coarse graining as the fundamental property of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Denes Petz

We present a toolbox of new techniques and concepts for the efficient forecasting of experimental sensitivities. These are applicable to a large range of scenarios in (astro-)particle physics, and based on the Fisher information formalism.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Thomas D. P. Edwards , Christoph Weniger

Interferometric telescopes are instrumental for the imaging of distant astronomical bodies, but optical loss heavily restricts how far telescopes in an array can be placed from one another, leading to a bottleneck in the resolution that can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-07 Bran Purvis , Randy Lafler , R. Nicholas Lanning

We employ a unified framework for computing the information capacity of biological signaling systems using Fisher Information. By deriving closed-form or easily computable information capacity formulas, we quantify how well different…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-14 Michał Komorowski