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We establish a previously unexplored conservation law for the Quantum Fisher Information Matrix (QFIM) expressed as follows; when the QFIM is constructed from a set of observables closed under commutation, i.e., a Lie algebra, the spectrum…

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We introduce Quantum Functional Information (QFI), a new metric to quantify the rarity and utility of quantum states and circuits. Unlike standard measures such as fidelity or entropy, QFI captures the balance between functionality and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Rodrigo Pasti , Jonas Krause

Given a quantum state with an unknown parameter, the Quantum Fisher Information (QFI) is a measure of the amount of information that an observable can extract about the parameter. QFI also quantifies the maximum achievable precision in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 C. S. Sudheer Kumar , T. S. Mahesh

We consider the problem of determining the spatial phase profile of a single-mode electromagnetic field. Our attention is on input states that are a statistical mixture of displaced and squeezed number states, a superset of Gaussian states.…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-09 Jacob Trzaska , Amit Ashok

We calculate the quantum Fisher information (QFI) for estimating, using a circular imaging aperture, the length of a uniformly bright incoherent line source with a fixed mid-point and the radius of a uniformly bright incoherent disk shaped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Sudhakar Prasad

Quantum metrology enhances the sensitivity of parameter estimation using the distinctive resources of quantum mechanics such as entanglement. It has been shown that the precision of estimating an overall multiplicative factor of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-31 Shengshi Pang , Todd A. Brun

We prove an extended convexity for quantum Fisher information of a mixed state with a given convex decomposition. This convexity introduces a bound which has two parts: i. classical part associated to the Fisher information of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-09 S. Alipour , A. T. Rezakhani

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…

Quantum Fisher information (QFI) sets the ultimate precision of optical phase measurements and reveals multiphoton entanglement, but it is not accessible with conventional photodetection. We theoretically predict that a photodetector…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Evgenii Barts , Takahiro Morimoto , Naoto Nagaosa

Informationally complete measurements form the foundation of universal quantum state reconstruction, while quantum parameter estimation is based on the local structure of the manifold of quantum states. Here we establish a general link…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Rakesh Saini , Jukka Kiukas , Daniel Burgarth , Alexei Gilchrist

Quantum imaginary-time evolution (QITE) is a promising tool to prepare thermal or ground states of Hamiltonians, as convergence is guaranteed when the evolved state overlaps with the ground state. However, its implementation using a a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Ioannis Kolotouros , David Joseph , Anand Kumar Narayanan

The quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound sets a fundamental limit on the accuracy of unbiased parameter estimation in quantum systems, relating the uncertainty in determining a parameter to the inverse of the quantum Fisher information. We…

The quantum Cram\'er-Rao theorem states that the quantum Fisher information (QFI) bounds the best achievable precision in the estimation of a quantum parameter $\xi$. This is true, however, under the assumption that the measurement employed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Luigi Seveso , Matteo G. A. Paris

Leveraging quantum information geometry, we derive generalized quantum speed limits on the rate of change of the expectation values of observables. These bounds subsume and, for Hilbert space dimension $\geq 3$, tighten existing bounds --…

Recent advancements have revealed new links between information geometry and classical stochastic thermodynamics, particularly through the Fisher information (FI) with respect to time. Recognizing the non-uniqueness of the quantum Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Laetitia P. Bettmann , John Goold

We study the role of quantum entanglement (particle entanglement and mode entanglement) in optical phase estimation by employing the first and second quantization formalisms of quantum mechanics. The quantum Fisher information (QFI) is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-23 Jaspreet Sahota , Nicolás Quesada , Daniel F. V. James

Recent developments on holography and quantum information physics suggest that quantum information theory come to play a fundamental role in understanding quantum gravity. Cosmology, on the other hand, plays a significant role in testing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-04 Chong-Bin Chen , Fu-Wen Shu

We summarise important recent advances in quantum metrology, in connection to experiments in cold gases, trapped cold atoms and photons. First we review simple metrological setups, such as quantum metrology with spin squeezed states, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Geza Toth , Iagoba Apellaniz

Quantum Fisher information is a key concept in the field of quantum metrology, which aims to enhance the parameter accuracy by using quantum resources. In this paper, utilizing a representation of quantum Fisher information for a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Xiao-Xing Jing , Jing Liu , Heng-Na Xiong , Xiaoguang Wang

As we enter the era of quantum technologies, quantum estimation theory provides an operationally motivating framework for determining high precision devices in modern technological applications. The aim of any estimation process is to…

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