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We propose a quantum metrology protocol for the localization of a non-cooperative point-like target in three-dimensional space, by illuminating it with electromagnetic waves. It employs all the spatial degrees of freedom of N entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Lorenzo Maccone , Changliang Ren

In quantum metrology, one of the major applications of quantum technologies, the ultimate precision of estimating an unknown parameter is often stated in terms of the Cram\'er-Rao bound. Yet, the latter is no longer guaranteed to carry an…

A Doppler radar is a device that employs the Doppler effect to estimate the radial velocity of a moving target at a distance. Traditional radars are based on a classical description of the electromagnetic radiation, but in principle their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 Rongyu Wei , Francesco Albarelli , Jun Li , Vittorio Giovannetti

Quantum light is described not only by a quantum state but also by the shape of the electromagnetic modes on which the state is defined. Optical precision measurements often estimate a ``mode parameter'' that determines properties such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Manuel Gessner , Nicolas Treps , Claude Fabre

We present a framework for relativistic quantum metrology that is useful for both Earth-based and space-based technologies. Quantum metrology has been so far successfully applied to design precision instruments such as clocks and sensors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 Mehdi Ahmadi , David Edward Bruschi , Carlos Sabín , Gerardo Adesso , Ivette Fuentes

We discuss the application of techniques of quantum estimation theory and quantum metrology to thermometry. The ultimate limit to the precision at which the temperature of a system at thermal equilibrium can be determined is related to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Antonella De Pasquale , Thomas M. Stace

A usual assumption in quantum estimation is that the unknown parameter labels the possible states of the system, while it influences neither the sample space of outcomes nor the measurement aimed at extracting information on the parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Luigi Seveso , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Matteo G. A. Paris

This study presents a quantum strategy for simultaneous estimation of two physical quantities using different entanglement resources. We explore the utilization of positively or negatively timecorrelated photons. The proposed method enables…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Yongqiang Li , Changliang Ren

Simultaneous estimation of multiple parameters in quantum metrological models is complicated by factors relating to the (i) existence of a single probe state allowing for optimal sensitivity for all parameters of interest, (ii) existence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-01 Sammy Ragy , Marcin Jarzyna , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

We propose a quantum ranging protocol to determine the distance between an observer and a target at the line of sight in the near-Earth curved spacetime. Unlike the quantum illumination scheme, here we employ multiple quantum hypothesis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Qianqian Liu , Cuihong Wen , Jiliang Jing , Jieci Wang

Quantum sensing, built upon fundamental quantum phenomena like entanglement and squeezing, is revolutionizing precision and sensitivity across diverse domains, including quantum metrology and imaging. Its impact is now stretching into radar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-24 Ricardo Gallego Torrome , Shabir Barzanjeh

Precise estimation of physical parameters underpins both scientific discovery and technological development. A central goal of quantum metrology and sensing is to exploit quantum resources like entanglement to devise optimal strategies for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Zhao-Yi Zhou , Da-Jian Zhang

Quantum resources, such as entanglement, can decrease the uncertainty of a parameter-estimation procedure beyond what is classically possible. This phenomenon is well described for noiseless systems with asymptotically many measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-09 Jason Saunders , Jean-Francois Van Huele

As one of the main pillars of quantum technologies, quantum metrology aims to improve measurement precision using techniques from quantum information. The two main strategies to achieve this are the preparation of nonclassical states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Matteo Fadel , Noah Roux , Manuel Gessner

We study the quantum metrology for a pair of entangled Unruh-Dewitt detectors when one of them is accelerated and coupled to a massless scalar field. Comparing with previous schemes, our model requires only local interaction and avoids the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-10 Jieci Wang , Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing , Heng Fan

Here we describe the quantum limit to measurement of the classical gravitational field. Specifically, we write down the optimal quantum Cramer-Rao lower bound, for any single parameter describing a metric for spacetime. The standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-07 T. G. Downes , G. J. Milburn , C. M. Caves

Achieving the ultimate precisions for multiple parameters simultaneously is an outstanding challenge in quantum physics, because the optimal measurements for incompatible parameters cannot be performed jointly due to the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-12 Binke Xia , Jingzheng Huang , Hongjing Li , Han Wang , Guihua Zeng

We investigate Quantum Target Ranging in the context of multi-hypothesis testing and its applicability to real-world LiDAR systems. First, we demonstrate that ranging is generally an easier task compared to the well-studied problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Giuseppe Ortolano , Ivano Ruo-Berchera

Quantum scrambling describes the spreading of local information into many degrees of freedom in quantum systems. This provides the conceptual connection among diverse phenomena ranging from thermalizing quantum dynamics to models of black…

Relativistic effects on the precision of quantum metrology for particle detectors, such as two-level atoms are studied. The quantum Fisher information is used to estimate the phase sensitivity of atoms in non-inertial motions or in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Xiang Hao , Yinzhong Wu