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Multi-stage (designed) procedures, obtained by splitting the sampling budget suitably across stages, and designing the sampling at a particular stage based on information about the parameter obtained from previous stages, are often…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-01-08 Atul Mallik , Moulinath Banerjee , George Michailidis

The interest in a system often resides in the interplay among different parameters governing its evolution. It is thus often required to access many of them at once for a complete description. Assessing how quantum enhancement in such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-22 Francesco Albarelli , Marco Barbieri , Marco G. Genoni , Ilaria Gianani

The problems of optimally estimating a phase, a direction, and the orientation of a Cartesian frame (or trihedron) with general pure states are addressed. Special emphasis is put on estimation schemes that allow for inconclusive answers or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 B. Gendra , E. Ronco-Bonvehi , J. Calsamiglia , R. Muñoz-Tapia , E. Bagan

We study the issue of simultaneous estimation of several phase shifts induced by commuting operators on a quantum state. We derive the optimal positive operator-valued measure corresponding to the multiple-phase estimation. In particular,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chiara Macchiavello

We give a detailed discussion of optimal quantum states for optical two-mode interferometry in the presence of photon losses. We derive analytical formulae for the precision of phase estimation obtainable using quantum states of light with…

Quantum effects like entanglement and coherent amplification can be used to drastically enhance the accuracy of quantum parameter estimation beyond classical limits. However, challenges such as decoherence and time-dependent errors hinder…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Yulong Dong , Jonathan A. Gross , Murphy Yuezhen Niu

Interferometry with quantum light is known to provide enhanced precision for estimating a single phase. However, depending on the parameters involved, the quantum limit for the simultaneous estimation of multiple parameters may not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-07 Philip J. D. Crowley , Animesh Datta , Marco Barbieri , Ian A. Walmsley

Achieving ultimate bounds in estimation processes is the main objective of quantum metrology. In this context, several problems require measurement of multiple parameters by employing only a limited amount of resources. To this end,…

We consider the task of multiple parameter estimation in the presence of strong correlated noise with a network of distributed sensors. We study how to find and improve noise-insensitive strategies. We show that sequentially probing GHZ…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Arne Hamann , Pavel Sekatski , Wolfgang Dür

Careful tailoring the quantum state of probes offers the capability of investigating matter at unprecedented precisions. Rarely, however, the interaction with the sample is fully encompassed by a single parameter, and the information…

Bayesian analysis is a framework for parameter estimation that applies even in uncertainty regimes where the commonly used local (frequentist) analysis based on the Cram\'er-Rao bound is not well defined. In particular, it applies when no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Simon Morelli , Ayaka Usui , Elizabeth Agudelo , Nicolai Friis

We identify optimal measurement strategies for phase estimation in different scenarios. For pure states of a single qubit, we show that optimal measurements form a broad set parametrized with a continuous variable. When the state is mixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-11 T. Wasak , J. Chwedenczuk , L. Pezze , A. Smerzi

This paper considers multiple regression procedures for analyzing the relationship between a response variable and a vector of covariates in a nonparametric setting where both tuning parameters and the number of covariates need to be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Chad M. Schafer , Kjell A. Doksum

Model averaging has demonstrated superior performance for ensemble forecasting in high-dimensional framework, its extension to incomplete datasets remains a critical but underexplored challenge. Moreover, identifying the parsimonious model…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-03 Wei Xiong , Dianliang Deng , Dehui Wang

We develop several algorithms for performing quantum phase estimation based on basic measurements and classical post-processing. We present a pedagogical review of quantum phase estimation and simulate the algorithm to numerically determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 Krysta M. Svore , Matthew B. Hastings , Michael Freedman

We derive, and experimentally demonstrate, an interferometric scheme for unambiguous phase estimation with precision scaling at the Heisenberg limit that does not require adaptive measurements. That is, with no prior knowledge of the phase,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-01 B. L. Higgins , D. W. Berry , S. D. Bartlett , M. W. Mitchell , H. M. Wiseman , G. J. Pryde

Achieving both high precision and large dynamic range remains a central challenge in quantum metrology, as improving local sensitivity typically reduces the unambiguous estimation range. Variational quantum interferometers enhance precision…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Qingchuan Yang , Xianing Feng , Lianfu Wei

We propose an interferometric scheme where each photon returns one bit of the binary expansion of an unknown phase. It sets up a method for estimating the phase value at arbitrary uncertainty. This strategy is global, since it requires no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Simone Roncallo , Xi Lu , Lorenzo Maccone

For many tasks of data analysis, we may only have the information of the explanatory variable and the evaluation of the response values are quite expensive. While it is impractical or too costly to obtain the responses of all units, a…

Computation · Statistics 2023-04-07 Wei Zheng , Ting Tian , Xueqin Wang

We propose a generalized form of entangled coherent states (ECS) and apply them in a multi-arm optical interferometer to estimate multiple phase shifts. We obtain the quantum Cramer-Rao bounds for both the linear and nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 Jing Liu , Xiao-Ming Lu , Zhe Sun , Xiaoguang Wang