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Quantum Metrology calculates the ultimate precision of all estimation strategies, measuring what is their root mean-square error (RMSE) and their Fisher information. Here, instead, we ask how many bits of the parameter we can recover,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Lorenzo Maccone , Majid Hassani , Chiara Macchiavello

The quantum relative entropy is a fundamental quantity in quantum information science, characterizing the distinguishability between two quantum states. However, this quantity is not additive in general for correlated quantum states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Kun Fang , Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi

The characterization of errors in a quantum system is a fundamental step for two important goals. First, learning about specific sources of error is essential for optimizing experimental design and error correction methods. Second,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Hillary Dawkins , Joel Wallman , Joseph Emerson

We study the estimation of an unknown quantum channel $\mathcal{E}$ with input dimension $d_1$, output dimension $d_2$ and Kraus rank at most $r$. We establish a connection between the query complexities in two models: (i) access to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Kean Chen , Nengkun Yu , Zhicheng Zhang

Leveraging quantum effects in metrology such as entanglement and coherence allows one to measure parameters with enhanced sensitivity. However, time-dependent noise can disrupt such Heisenberg-limited amplification. We propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Yulong Dong , Jonathan Gross , Murphy Yuezhen Niu

Gravitational-wave detectors operate in inherently non-stationary environments, requiring robust detector characterization (DetChar) to distinguish instrumental transients from astrophysical signals. Traditional DetChar frameworks typically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 James Kennington , Zach Yarbrough

Quantum channels represent a broad spectrum of operations crucial to quantum information theory, encompassing everything from the transmission of quantum information to the manipulation of various resources. In the domain of states, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Gilad Gour , Doyeong Kim , Takla Nateeboon , Guy Shemesh , Goni Yoeli

We introduce a new incompatibility criterion for quantum channels, based on the notion of (quantum) Fisher information. Our construction is based on a similar criterion for quantum measurements put forward by H.~Zhu. We then study the power…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Qing-Hua Zhang , Ion Nechita

We study the task of learning mixed unitary channels using Fisher information, under different quantum resource assumptions including ancilla and concatenation. Our result shows that the asymptotic sample complexity scales as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Yue Tu , Liang Jiang

Gaussian quantum states and channels are pivotal across many branches of quantum science and their applications, including the processing and storage of quantum information, the investigation of thermodynamics in the quantum regime, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Alice P. G. Hall , Carlos H. S. Vieira , Jonas F. G. Santos

We consider the estimation of noise parameters in a quantum channel, assuming the most general strategy allowed by quantum mechanics. This is based on the exploitation of unlimited entanglement and arbitrary quantum operations, so that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Stefano Pirandola , Cosmo Lupo

In quantum metrology, the parameter estimation accuracy is bounded by quantum Fisher information. In this paper, we present coherence measures in terms of (quantum) Fisher information by directly considering the post-selective non-unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Deng-hui Yu , Chang-shui Yu

Relative entropy is the standard measure of distinguishability in classical and quantum information theory. In the classical case, its loss under channels admits an exact chain rule, while in the quantum case only asymptotic, regularized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Giulio Gasbarri , Matt Hoogsteder-Riera

Entropy measures quantify the amount of information and correlation present in a quantum system. In practice, when the quantum state is unknown and only copies thereof are available, one must resort to the estimation of such entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Ziv Goldfeld , Dhrumil Patel , Sreejith Sreekumar , Mark M. Wilde

We study Heisenberg scaling of quantum metrology in the viewpoint of population coding. Although Fisher information has been used for a figure of merit to characterize Heisenberg scaling in quantum metrology, several studies pointed out it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 Masahito Hayashi

We investigate the quantum parameter estimation in circuit quantum electrodynamics via dispersive measurement. Based on the Metropolis Hastings (MH) algorithm and the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) integration, a new algorithm is proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 Beili Gong , Yang Yang , Wei Cui

So far, there have been plenty of literatures on the metric in the space of probability distributions and quantum states. As for channels, however, only a little had been known. In this paper, we impose monotonicity by concatenation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-03 Keiji Matsumoto

In statistical estimation theory, it has been shown previously that the Wigner-Yanase skew information is bounded by the quantum Fisher information associated with the phase parameter. Besides, the quantum Cram\'er-Rao inequality is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Nour-Eddine Abouelkhir , Hanane EL Hadfi , Abdallah Slaoui , Rachid Ahl Laamara

In multiparameter quantum metrology, the weighted-arithmetic-mean error of estimation is often used as a scalar cost function to be minimized during design optimization. However, other types of mean error can reveal different facets of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Xiao-Ming Lu , Zhihao Ma , Chengjie Zhang

The fidelity function of quantum states have been widely used in quantum information science and frequently arises in the quantification of optimal performances for the estimation and distinguish of quantum states. A fidelity function on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-09 Haidong Yuan , Chi-Hang Fred Fung