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Precise measurement of frequency sensitivity coefficients (FSCs) of some physical effects contributing to uncertainty is an important work in type-B uncertainty (u_B) evaluation of atomic frequency standards. We proposed a method based on…

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Quantum sensors offer exceptional sensitivity to nanoscale magnetic fluctuations, where non-stationary effects -- such as spin diffusion -- and non-Markovian dynamics arising from coupling to few environmental degrees of freedom play…

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Unwanted interaction between a quantum system and its fluctuating environment leads to decoherence and is the primary obstacle to establishing a scalable quantum information processing architecture. Strategies such as environmental and…

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Phase estimation plays a central role in communications, sensing, and information processing. Quantum correlated states, such as squeezed states, enable phase estimation beyond the shot-noise limit, and in principle approach the ultimate…

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Quantum harmonic oscillators are central to many modern quantum technologies. We introduce a method to determine the frequency noise spectrum of oscillator modes through coupling them to a qubit with continuously driven…

Study of dissipative quantum phase transitions in the Ohmic spin-boson model is numerically challenging in a dense limit of environmental modes. In this work, large-scale numerical simulations are carried out based on the variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Xiaohui Qian , Congzhi Zeng , Nengji Zhou

When modeling the effects of noise on quantum circuits, one often makes the assumption that these effects can be accounted for by individual decoherence events following an otherwise noise-free gate. In this work, we address the validity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Keith R. Fratus , Juha Leppäkangas , Michael Marthaler , Jan-Michael Reiner

Quantum multiparameter estimation offers a framework for the simultaneous estimation of multiple parameters, pertaining to possibly noncommutating observables. While the optimal probe for estimating a single unitary phase is well understood…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Ritopriyo Pal , Priya Ghosh , Ahana Ghoshal , Ujjwal Sen

We analyze noise in a quantum-enhanced fiber optic gyroscope (FOG), focusing on one of the leading sources of phase uncertainty - uncorrelated photon saturation. Taking a squeezed state input as a source for N00N states, we compute the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Stefan Evans , Joanna Ptasinski

The dynamics of an unbiased spin-boson model with Lorentzian spectral density is investigated theoretically in terms of the perturbation theory based on a unitary transformation. The non-equilibrium correlation function $P(t)$ and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-11-30 Peihao Huang , H. Zheng

Hybrid evolution protocols, composed of unitary dynamics and repeated, weak or projective measurements, give rise to new, intriguing quantum phenomena, including entanglement phase transitions and unconventional conformal invariance.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-12 Y. Minoguchi , P. Rabl , M. Buchhold

We study the performance of a single qubit-laser as a quantum sensor to measure the amplitude and phase of a driving field. By using parameter estimation theory we show that certain suitable field quadratures are optimal observables in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Samuel Fernández-Lorenzo , Diego Porras

The sensitivity in optical interferometry is strongly affected by losses during the signal propagation or at the detection stage. The optimal quantum states of the probing signals in the presence of loss were recently found. However, in…

Boson sampling, a computational problem conjectured to be hard to simulate on a classical machine, is a promising candidate for an experimental demonstration of quantum advantage using bosons. However, inevitable experimental noise and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Gabriele Bressanini , Hyukjoon Kwon , M. S. Kim

Frequency estimation is a fundamental problem in signal processing, with applications in radar imaging, underwater acoustics, seismic imaging, and spectroscopy. The goal is to estimate the frequency of each component in a multisinusoidal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Gautier Izacard , Sreyas Mohan , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Frequency estimation from measurements corrupted by noise is a fundamental challenge across numerous engineering and scientific fields. Among the pivotal factors shaping the resolution capacity of any frequency estimation technique are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Sampath Kumar Dondapati , Omkar Nitsure , Satish Mulleti

Interactions among sensors can provide, in addition to entanglement, an important resource for boosting the precision in quantum estimation protocols. Dephasing noise, however, remains a leading source of decoherence in state-of-the-art…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Francisco Riberi , Lorenza Viola

We obtain universal (i.e., probe and measurement-independent) performance bounds on ancilla-assisted quantum sensing of multiple parameters of phase-covariant optical channels under energy and mode-number constraints. We first show that for…

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