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Measurements are central in all quantitative sciences, and a fundamental challenge is to make observations without systematic measurement errors. This holds in particular for quantum information processing, where other error sources, such…

Quantum metrology exploits quantum correlations in specially prepared entangled or other non-classical states to perform measurements that exceed the standard quantum limit. Typically though, such states are hard to engineer, particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Lewis A. Clark , Adam Stokes , Almut Beige

Quantum metrology is a general term for methods to precisely estimate the value of an unknown parameter by actively using quantum resources. In particular, some classes of entangled states can be used to significantly suppress the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-01 Takanori Sugiyama

Quantum metrology enhances measurement precision by utilising the properties of quantum physics. In interferometry, this is typically achieved by evolving highly-entangled quantum states before performing single-shot measurements to reveal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Kawthar Al Rasbi , Almut Beige , Lewis A. Clark

Quantum metrology plays a fundamental role in many scientific areas. However, the complexity of engineering entangled probes and the external noise raise technological barriers for realizing the expected precision of the to-be-estimated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Xiaodong Yang , Xi Chen , Jun Li , Xinhua Peng , Raymond Laflamme

Quantum mechanics allows entanglement enhanced measurements to be performed, but loss remains an obstacle in constructing realistic quantum metrology schemes. However, recent work has revealed that entangled coherent states (ECSs) have the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 P. A. Knott , W. J. Munro , J. A. Dunningham

We consider quantum metrology in noisy environments, where the effect of noise and decoherence limits the achievable gain in precision by quantum entanglement. We show that by using tools from quantum error-correction this limitation can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-12 W. Dür , M. Skotiniotis , F. Fröwis , B. Kraus

Quantum metrology aims at achieving enhanced performance in measuring unknown parameters by utilizing quantum resources. Thus, quantum metrology is an important application of quantum technologies. Photonic systems can implement these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 Madhura Ghosh Dastidar , Aprameyan Desikan , Vidya Praveen Bhallamudi

Important properties of a quantum system are not directly measurable, but they can be disclosed by how fast the system changes under controlled perturbations. In particular, asymmetry and entanglement can be verified by reconstructing the…

Quantum metrology has many important applications in science and technology, ranging from frequency spectroscopy to gravitational wave detection. Quantum mechanics imposes a fundamental limit on measurement precision, called the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Sisi Zhou , Mengzhen Zhang , John Preskill , Liang Jiang

Environmental noise can hinder the metrological capabilities of entangled states. While the use of entanglement allows for Heisenberg-limited resolution, the largest permitted by quantum mechanics, deviations from strictly unitary dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Jan Jeske , Jared H. Cole , Susana Huelga

Using quantum measurements to extract information from states is a matter of routine in quantum science and technologies. A recent work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 040202 (2024)] reported the finding that the symmetric structures of a state can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Zhao-Yi Zhou , Da-Jian Zhang

Most quantum metrology protocols harness highly entangled probe states and globally accessible measurements to surpass the standard quantum limit. However, it is challenging to satisfy these requirements in realistic many-body sensors. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Harshita Sharma , Sayan Choudhury , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay

Quantifying quantum entanglement is a pivotal challenge in quantum information science, particularly for high-dimensional systems, due to its computational complexity. This thesis extends the geometric measure of entanglement (GME) to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Xuanran Zhu

In this paper, we investigate how to reduce the number of measurement configurations needed for sufficiently precise entanglement quantification. Instead of analytical formulae, we employ artificial neural networks to predict the amount of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Jan Roik , Karol Bartkiewicz , Antonín Černoch , Karel Lemr

Quantum entanglement is usually revealed via a well aligned, carefully chosen set of measurements. Yet, under a number of experimental conditions, for example in communication within multiparty quantum networks, noise along the channels or…

There is growing belief that the next decade will see the emergence of sensing devices based on the laws of quantum physics that outperform some of our current sensing devices. For example, in frequency estimation, using a probe prepared in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Shane Dooley , William J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

Quantum metrology makes use of coherent superpositions to detect weak signals. While in principle the sensitivity can be improved by increasing the density of sensing particles, in practice this improvement is severely hindered by…

Quantum metrology uses non-classical states, such as Fock states with a specific number of photons, to achieve an advantage over classical sensing methods. Typically, quantum metrological performance can be enhanced by increasing the…

We develop an efficient algorithm for determining optimal adaptive quantum estimation protocols with arbitrary quantum control operations between subsequent uses of a probed channel. We introduce a tensor network representation of an…