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We introduce high-order dynamical decoupling strategies for open system adiabatic quantum computation. Our numerical results demonstrate that a judicious choice of high-order dynamical decoupling method, in conjunction with an encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Gregory Quiroz , Daniel A. Lidar

Physical systems close to a quantum phase transition exhibit a divergent susceptibility, suggesting that an arbitrarily-high precision may be achieved by exploiting quantum critical systems as probes to estimate a physical parameter.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-30 Louis Garbe , Matteo Bina , Arne Keller , Matteo G. A. Paris , Simone Felicetti

We propose an adiabatic method for optimal phonon temperature estimation using trapped ions which can be operated beyond the Lamb-Dicke regime. The quantum sensing technique relies on a time-dependent red-sideband transition of phonon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Aleksandrina V. Kirkova , Weibin Li , Peter A. Ivanov

We study the low-temperature limit of the d-dimensional imperfect Bose gas. Relying on an exact analysis of the microscopic model, we establish the existence of a second-order quantum phase transition to a phase involving the Bose-Einstein…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 P. Jakubczyk , M. Napiórkowski

We theoretically investigate estimation of the control parameter in a ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate near second order quantum phase transitions. We quantify sensitivity by quantum and classical Fisher information and using the…

Quantum systems can be used as probes in the context of metrology for enhanced parameter estimation. In particular, the delicacy of critical systems to perturbations can make them ideal sensors. Arguably the simplest realistic probe system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 George Mihailescu , Abolfazl Bayat , Steve Campbell , Andrew K. Mitchell

We investigate quantum-enhanced metrology in a triple point criticality and discover that quantum criticality can not always enhance measuring precision. We have developed suitable adiabatic evolution protocols approaching a final point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Jia-Ming Cheng , Yong-Chang Zhang , Xiang-Fa Zhou , Zheng-Wei Zhou

Quantum phase transitions have been shown to be highly beneficial for quantum sensing, owing to diverging quantum Fisher information close to criticality. In this work we consider a periodically modulated Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model to show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Rahul Ghosh , Bandita Das , Victor Mukherjee

We construct a measure for the adiabatic contribution to quantum transitions in an arbitrary basis, tackling the generic complex case where dynamics is only partially adiabatic, simultaneously populates several eigenstates and transitions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 R. Pant , P. K. Verma , C. Rangi , E. Mondal , M. Bhati , V. Srinivasan , S. Wüster

Optical phase estimation is a vital measurement primitive that is used to perform accurate measurements of various physical quantities like length, velocity and displacements. The precision of such measurements can be largely enhanced by…

An ever broader range of physical platforms provides the possibility to study and engineer quantum dynamics under continuous measurements. In many experimental arrangements the system of interest is monitored by means of an ancillary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-19 Ondřej Černotík , Denis V. Vasilyev , Klemens Hammerer

Critical systems near quantum phase transitions were predicted to be useful for improvement of metrological precision, thanks to their ultra-sensitive response to a tiny variation of the control Hamiltonian. Despite the promising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Jia-Hao Lü , Wen Ning , Fan Wu , Ri-Hua Zheng , Ken Chen , Xin Zhu , Zhen-Biao Yang , Huai-Zhi Wu , Shi-Biao Zheng

Critical phenomena at finite temperature underpin a broad range of physical systems, yet their study remains challenging due to computational bottlenecks near phase transitions. Quantum annealers have attracted significant interest as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-11 Gianluca Teza , Francesco Campaioli , Marco Avesani , Oren Raz

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) is a central algorithmic primitive that estimates eigenvalues of a Hamiltonian up to precision $\epsilon$ in Heisenberg-limited time $T=\Theta(1/\epsilon)$. Standard gate-based implementations of QPE require…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Alexander Schmidhuber , Seth Lloyd

The main power of quantum sensors is achieved when the probe is composed of several particles. In this situation, quantum features such as entanglement contribute to enhancing the precision of quantum sensors beyond the capacity of…

The sensing of external fields using quantum systems is a prime example of an emergent quantum technology. Generically, the sensitivity of a quantum sensor consisting of $N$ independent particles is proportional to $\sqrt{N}$. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 Meghana Raghunandan , Jörg Wrachtrup , Hendrik Weimer

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

Confined electron spins are preferred candidates for embodying quantum information in the solid state. A popular idea is the use of optical excitation to achieve the ``best of both worlds'', i.e. marrying the long spin decoherence times…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Erik M. Gauger , Simon C. Benjamin , Ahsan Nazir , Brendon W. Lovett

Recent experiments have demonstrated the generation of entanglement by quasi-adiabatically driving through quantum phase transitions of a ferromagnetic spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of a tunable quadratic Zeeman shift. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 P. Feldmann , M. Gessner , M. Gabbrielli , C. Klempt , L. Santos , L. Pezzè , A. Smerzi

Quantum sensors are powerful devices that exploit quantum effects to detect minute quantities with extremely high precision. Two obstacles to harnessing the full capacity of quantum probes are the resource-intensive preparation of the probe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Dingwei Zhao , Abolfazl Bayat , Victor Montenegro