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As one of the main pillars of quantum technologies, quantum metrology aims to improve measurement precision using techniques from quantum information. The two main strategies to achieve this are the preparation of nonclassical states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Matteo Fadel , Noah Roux , Manuel Gessner

Quantum metrology promises high-precision measurements of classical parameters with far reaching implications for science and technology. So far, research has concentrated almost exclusively on quantum-enhancements in integrable systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-16 Lukas J. Fiderer , Daniel Braun

We discuss the short-time perturbative expansion of the linear entropy for finite-dimensional quantum systems whose dynamics can be effectively described by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We derive a timescale for the degree of mixedness for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Diego Paiva Pires , Tommaso Macrì

We apply the fidelity metric approach to analyze two recently introduced models that exhibit a quantum phase transition to a topologically ordered phase. These quantum models have a known connection to classical statistical mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-03 Damian F. Abasto , Alioscia Hamma , Paolo Zanardi

To overcome the fast oscillatory behavior of correlation functions for extracting scattering phase shift in real-time quantum simulations encountered in Ref.\cite{Guo:2026qkx}, we propose and test two solutions in the present work. One is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Peng Guo , Paul LeVan , Frank X. Lee , Yong Zhao

The quantum metric, a geometric measure of state-space distance, has recently attracted growing attention for capturing anomalous state responses to parameter variations. Especially in non-Hermitian systems, the quantum metric has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Teng Liu , Xiaohang Zhang , Jiawei Zhang , Le Luo

The quantum measurement axiom dictates that physical observables and in particular the Hamiltonian must be diagonalizable and have a real spectrum. For a time-independent Hamiltonian (with a discrete spectrum) these conditions ensure the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ali Mostafazadeh

We study the entanglement Hamiltonian for finite intervals in infinite quantum chains for two different free-particle systems: coupled harmonic oscillators and fermionic hopping models with dimerization. Working in the ground state, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-20 Viktor Eisler , Giuseppe Di Giulio , Erik Tonni , Ingo Peschel

Considering non-Hermitian systems implemented by utilizing enlarged quantum systems, we determine the fundamental limits for the sensitivity of non-Hermitian sensors from the perspective of quantum information. We prove that non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Wenkui Ding , Xiaoguang Wang , Shu Chen

A non-Hermitian operator may serve as the Hamiltonian for a unitary quantum system, if we can modify the Hilbert space of state vectors of the system so that it turns into a Hermitian operator. If this operator is time-dependent, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Ali Mostafazadeh

Entanglement-assisted quantum communication employs pre-shared entanglement between sender and receiver as a resource. We apply the same framework to quantum metrology, introducing shared entanglement between the preparation and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Zixin Huang , Chiara Macchiavello , Lorenzo Maccone

A quantum system subject to continuous measurement and post-selection evolves according to a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We show that, as one increases the rate of post-selection, this non-Hermitian Hamiltonian undergoes a spectral phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Michael J. Gullans

Quantum metrology harnesses quantum entanglement to improve measurement precision beyond standard quantum limit. Although nonlinear interaction is essential for generating entanglement, during signal accumulation, it becomes detrimental and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Jihao Ma , Jiahao Huang , Chaohong Lee

The quantum-mechanical framework in which observables are associated with Hermitian operators is too narrow to discuss measurements of such important physical quantities as elapsed time or harmonic-oscillator phase. We introduce a broader…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Samuel L. Braunstein , Carlton M. Caves , G. J. Milburn

The well-known algorithm for quantum phase estimation requires that the considered unitary is available as a conditional transformation depending on the quantum state of an ancilla register. We present an algorithm converting an unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominik Janzing

In lattice Hamiltonian systems with a quartic coupling $\gamma$, a critical value $\gamma^*$ may exist such that, when $\gamma=\gamma^*$, the leading irrelevant operator decouples from the Hamiltonian and the leading nonscaling contribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Massimo Campostrini , Pietro Parruccini , Paolo Rossi

Quantum metrology promises precision beyond classical limits, yet environmental noise typically degrades the quantum resources required for such enhancement. In this work, we investigate frequency estimation in noisy continuous-variable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Ayan Patra , Manju , Aditi Sen De , Matteo G. A. Paris

Phase estimation algorithms are key protocols in quantum information processing. Besides applications in quantum computing, they can also be employed in metrology as they allow for fast extraction of information stored in the quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 S. Danilin , A. V. Lebedev , A. Vepsäläinen , G. B. Lesovik , G. Blatter , G. S. Paraoanu

Non-Hermitian topological systems have attracted a lot of research activities in recent times, both theoretically and experimentally, due to their unique physical properties and association with open quantum systems. We show that modular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Saubhik Sarkar , Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Abolfazl Bayat

Quantum criticality, as a fascinating quantum phenomenon, may provide significant advantages for quantum sensing. Here we propose a dynamic framework for quantum sensing with a family of Hamiltonians that undergo quantum phase transitions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Yaoming Chu , Shaoliang Zhang , Baiyi Yu , Jianming Cai