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We calculate the quantum Cram\'er--Rao bound for the sensitivity with which one or several parameters, encoded in a general single-mode Gaussian state, can be estimated. This includes in particular the interesting case of mixed Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Olivier Pinel , Pu Jian , Claude Fabre , Nicolas Treps , Daniel Braun

We calculate the quantum Cram\'er--Rao bound for the sensitivity with which one or several parameters, encoded in a general single-mode Gaussian state, can be estimated. This includes in particular the interesting case of mixed Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 O. Pinel , P. Jian , N. Treps , C. Fabre , and D. Braun

Postselected weak measurement has shown significant potential for detecting small physical effects due to its unique weak-value-amplification phenomenon. Previous works suggest that Heisenberg-limit precision can be attained using only the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Zi-Rui Zhong , Xia-Lin Su , Xiang-Ming Hu , Ke-Xuan Chen , Hui-Lin Xu , Yan Zhang , Qing-Lin Wu

We develop a quantum metrological framework for resonant nanophotonic sensors based on subwavelength Fabry--Perot slit cavities. Building on classical Fisher-information analyses of resonant transmission sensors, we model parameter encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 J. Sumaya-Martinez

Correlations and measures of entanglement in ground state wavefunctions of relativistic quantum field theories are spatially localized over length scales set by the mass of the lightest particle. We utilize this localization to design…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Natalie Klco , Martin J. Savage

The formalism of quantum estimation theory, focusing on the quantum and classical Fisher information, is applied to the estimation of the coupling strength in an optomechanical system. In order to estimate the optomechanical coupling, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Claudio Sanavio , József Zsolt Bernád , André Xuereb

We employ a unified framework for computing the information capacity of biological signaling systems using Fisher Information. By deriving closed-form or easily computable information capacity formulas, we quantify how well different…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-14 Michał Komorowski

Existing methods for high-dimensional changepoint detection and localization typically focus on changes in either the mean vector or the covariance matrix separately. This separation reduces detection power and localization accuracy when…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Junfeng Cui , Guangming Pan , Guanghui Wang , Changliang Zou

We describe the use of optically levitated microspheres as test masses in experiments aimed at reaching and potentially exceeding the standard quantum limit for position measurements. Optically levitated microspheres have low mass and are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Kenneth G. Libbrecht , Eric D Black

We study entanglement in two coupled quartic oscillators. It is shown that the entanglement, as measured by the von Neumann entropy, increases with the classical chaos parameter for generic chaotic eigenstates. We consider certain isolated…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-02-22 M. S. Santhanam , V. B. Sheorey , Arul Lakshminarayan

Scattershot photon sources are known to have useful properties for optical quantum computing and boson sampling purposes, in particular for scaling to large numbers of photons. This paper investigates the application of these scattershot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Joshua J. Guanzon , Austin P. Lund , Timothy C. Ralph

This paper extends our previous quantum Fisher information (QFI) based analysis of the problem of separating a pair of equal-brightness incoherent point sources in three dimensions to the case of a pair of sources that are unequally bright.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Sudhakar Prasad

We propose a quantum interferometric protocol that leverages spin-dependent spatial displacements to enable high-precision parameter estimation beyond classical limits. By inducing a unitary coupling between a particles spin degree of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Necati Celik , Songul Akbulut Ozen , Burhan Engin

We demonstrate the onset of strong on-site localization in a one-dimensional many-particle system. The localization is obtained by constructing, in an explicit form, a bounded sequence of on-site energies that eliminates resonant hopping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. F. Santos , M. I. Dykman , M. Shapiro , F. M. Izrailev

We present novel solutions to the problem of direct localization of multiple narrow-band and arbitrarily correlated sources by partly calibrated arrays, i.e., arrays composed of fully calibrated sub-arrays yet lacking inter-array…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-27 Amir Adler , Mati Wax

Quantification of coherence lies at the heart of quantum information processing and fundamental physics. Exact evaluation of coherence measures generally needs a full reconstruction of the density matrix, which becomes intractable for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-28 Qi-Ming Ding , Xiao-Xu Fang , Xiao Yuan , Ting Zhang , He Lu

We study the estimation of a single parameter characterizing families of unitary transformations acting on two systems. We consider the situation with the presence of bottleneck, i.e. only one of the systems can be measured to gather…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Milajiguli Rexiti , Stefano Mancini

A central qubit coupled to an Ising ring of $N$ qubits, operating close to a critical point is investigated as a potential precision quantum magnetometer for estimating an applied transverse magnetic field. We compute the Quantum Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Noufal Jaseem , S. Omkar , Anil Shaji

The recent advent of noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices, especially near-term quantum computers, has sparked extensive research efforts concerned with their possible applications. At the forefront of the considered approaches are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Johannes Jakob Meyer

Using extensive numerical analysis of 20,000 randomly generated two-qubit states, we provide a quantitative analysis of the connection between entanglement measures and Maximized Quantum Fisher Information (MQFI). Our systematic study shows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Volkan Erol