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Quantum effects, such as entanglement, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering, and Bell correlations, can enhance metrological sensitivity beyond the standard quantum limit. These correlations are typically generated through interactions between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Danish Ali Hamza , Jan Chwedeńczuk

Accurate control of quantum systems requires precise measurement of the parameters that govern the dynamics, including control fields and interactions with the environment. Parameters will drift in time and experiments interleave protocols…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Swarnadeep Majumder , Leonardo Andreta de Castro , Kenneth R. Brown

Quantum information processing with multi-level systems (qudits) provides additional features and applications than the two-level systems. However, qudits are more prone to dephasing and dynamical decoupling for qudits has never been…

Quantum metrology uses entanglement and other quantum effects to improve the sensitivity of demanding measurements. Probing of delicate systems demands high sensitivity from limited probe energy and has motivated the field's key…

We compare critical quantum sensing to passive quantum strategies to perform frequency estimation, in the case of single-mode quadratic Hamiltonians. We show that, while in the unitary case both strategies achieve precision scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Uesli Alushi , Wojciech Górecki , Simone Felicetti , Roberto Di Candia

We present practical methods to measure entanglement for quantum simulators that can be realized with trapped ions, cold atoms, and superconducting qubits. Focussing on long- and short-range Ising-type Hamiltonians, we introduce schemes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 O. Marty , M. Cramer , M. B. Plenio

We investigate how unitary control can improve parameter estimation by designing the effective spectrum of the imprinting Hamiltonian. We show that, for commuting Hamiltonians, the general problem of spectral manipulation via unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Paul Aigner , Wolfgang Dür

We describe a method to enhance the sensitivity of precision measurements that takes advantage of a quantum sensor's environment to amplify its response to weak external perturbations. An individual qubit is used to sense the dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 G. Goldstein , P. Cappellaro , J. R. Maze , J. S. Hodges , L. Jiang , A. S. Sørensen , M. D. Lukin

Virtual excitations, inherent to ultrastrongly coupled light-matter systems, induce measurable modifications in system properties, offering a novel resource for quantum technologies. In this work, we demonstrate how these virtual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Christoph Hotter , Adam Miranowicz , Karol Gietka

We consider quantum systems with a Hamiltonian containing a weak perturbation i.e. $\boldsymbol{H=H_0} + \boldsymbol{\lambda} \cdot \boldsymbol{\tilde{H}}$, $\boldsymbol{\lambda}= \{\lambda_1, \lambda_2,...\}$, $\boldsymbol{\tilde{H}}$ $=…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Sidali Mohammdi , Matteo Bina , Abdelhakim Gharbi , Matteo G. A. Paris

We utilize a discrete (sequential) measurement protocol to investigate quantum process tomography of a single two-level quantum system, with an unknown initial state, undergoing Rabi oscillations. The ignorance of the dynamical parameters…

Quantum phase transitions occur when the ground state of a quantum system undergoes a qualitative change when an external control parameter reaches a critical value. Here, we demonstrate a technique for studying quantum systems undergoing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-14 Jingfu Zhang , Xinhua Peng , Nageswaran Rajendran , Dieter Suter

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

High sensitivity quantum interferometry requires more than just access to entangled states. It is achieved through deep understanding of quantum correlations in a system. Integrable models offer the framework to develop this understanding.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 D. S. Grun , L. H. Ymai , Karin Wittmann Wilsmann , A. P. Tonel , A. Foerster , J. Links

We present an empirical strategy to determine the Hamiltonian dynamics of a two-qubit system using only initialization and measurement in a single fixed basis. Signal parameters are estimated from measurement data using Bayesian methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-01 S. G. Schirmer , D. K. L. Oi

Simultaneous quantum estimation of multiple parameters has recently become essential in quantum metrology. Although the ultimate sensitivity of a multiparameter quantum estimation in noiseless environments can beat the standard quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Le Bin Ho , Hideaki Hakoshima , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Masayuki Matsuzaki , Yasushi Kondo

Quantum metrology explores quantum effects to improve the measurement accuracy of some physical quantities beyond the classical limit. However, due to the interaction between the system and the environment, the decoherence can significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Cheng-Ge Liu , Cong-Wei Lu , Na-Na Zhang , Qing Ai

Simultaneous estimation of multiple parameters in quantum metrological models is complicated by factors relating to the (i) existence of a single probe state allowing for optimal sensitivity for all parameters of interest, (ii) existence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-01 Sammy Ragy , Marcin Jarzyna , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

Entangled many-body states enable high-precision quantum sensing beyond the standard quantum limit. We develop interferometric sensing protocols based on quantum critical wavefunctions and compare their performance with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Yinan Chen , Sara Murciano , Pablo Sala , Jason Alicea

We investigate critical quantum metrology,that is the estimation of parameters in many-body systems close to a quantum critical point, through the lens of Bayesian inference theory. We first derive a no-go result stating that any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Raffaele Salvia , Mohammad Mehboudi , Martí Perarnau-Llobet