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Using Fisher information and the Cram\'er-Rao lower bound, we analyse fundamental precision limits in the determination of spectral parameters in inelastic optical scattering. General analytic formulae are derived which account for the…

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We summarise important recent advances in quantum metrology, in connection to experiments in cold gases, trapped cold atoms and photons. First we review simple metrological setups, such as quantum metrology with spin squeezed states, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Geza Toth , Iagoba Apellaniz

We argue that it is possible in principle to reduce the uncertainty of an atomic magnetometer by double-passing a far-detuned laser field through the atomic sample as it undergoes Larmor precession. Numerical simulations of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-17 Bradley A. Chase , Ben Q. Baragiola , Heather L. Partner , Brigette D. Black , JM Geremia

We study the connection between exceptional points (EPs) and optimal parameter estimation, in a simple system consisting of two counter-propagating traveling wave modes in a microring resonator. The unknown parameter to be estimated is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Robert L. Cook , Liwen Ko , K. Birgitta Whaley

In this paper, we revisit the quantum Fisher information (QFI) calculation in SU(1,1) interferometer considering different phase configurations. When one of the input modes is a vacuum state, we show by using phase averaging, different…

A methodology is introduced that enables an absolute, quantum-limited measurement of sub-wavelength interferometric displacements. The technique utilizes a high-frequency optical path modulation within an interferometer operated in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-12 Valérian Thiel , Pu Jian , Claude Fabre , Nicolas Treps , Jonathan Roslund

The minimum error of unbiased parameter estimation is quantified by the quantum Fisher information in accordance to the Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound. We indicate that only superposed NOON states by simultaneous measurements can achieve the maximum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Y. R. Zhang , G. R. Jin , J. P. Cao , W. M. Liu , H. Fan

We discuss a parameter estimation problem using quantum decoherece in the double-slit interferometer. We consider a particle coupled to a massive scalar field after the particle passing through the double slit and solve the dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Akira Matsumura , Taishi Ikeda , Shingo Kukita

Only with the simultaneous estimation of multiple parameters are the quantum aspects of metrology fully revealed. This is due to the incompatibility of observables. The fundamental bound for multi-parameter quantum estimation is the Holevo…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Francesco Albarelli , Jamie F. Friel , Animesh Datta

Estimation of physical parameters encoded in a Hamiltonian is a central task in quantum sensing and learning. While the ultimate precision limit for estimating a single parameter coupled to a single generator is well established, the…

We study the role of probe dimension in determining the bounds of precision and the level of incompatibility in multi-parameter quantum estimation problems. In particular, we focus on the paradigmatic case of unitary encoding generated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Alessandro Candeloro , Zahra Pazhotan , Matteo G. A. Paris

We address characterization of many-body superradiant systems and establish a fundamental connection between quantum criticality and the possibility of locally estimating the coupling constant, i.e extracting its value by probing only a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-18 M. Bina , I. Amelio , M. G. A. Paris

In recent proposals for achieving optical super-resolution, variants of the Quantum Fisher Information (QFI) quantify the attainable precision. We find that claims about a strong enhancement of the resolution resulting from coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Zdeněk Hradil , Jaroslav Řeháček , Luis Sánchez-Soto , Berthold-Georg Englert

The far-field pattern of a simple one-dimensional laser array of emitters radiating into free space is considered. In the path of investigating the inverse problem for their near fields leading to a target beam form, surprisingly we found…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Constantinos A. Valagiannopoulos , Vassilios Kovanis

The Cram\'er-Rao bound captures completely the performance of single-parameter quantum sensors. On the other hand, its extension to multiple parameters demands more caution. Different aspects need to be captured at once, including,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Jayanth Jayakumar , Marco Barbieri , Magdalena Stobińska

This work investigates measurement strategies for link parameter estimation in Quantum Network Tomography (QNT), where network links are modeled as depolarizing quantum channels distributing Werner states. Three distinct measurement schemes…

Precise device characterization is a fundamental requirement for a large range of applications using photonic hardware, and constitutes a multi-parameter estimation problem. Estimates based on measurements using single photons or classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Nana Liu , Hugo Cable

Quantum metrology exploits quantum correlations to make precise measurements with limited particle numbers. By utilizing inter- and intra- mode correlations in an optical interferometer, we find a state that combines entanglement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 P. A. Knott , T. J. Proctor , A. J. Hayes , J. P. Cooling , J. A. Dunningham

We study the role of quantum entanglement (particle entanglement and mode entanglement) in optical phase estimation by employing the first and second quantization formalisms of quantum mechanics. The quantum Fisher information (QFI) is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-23 Jaspreet Sahota , Nicolás Quesada , Daniel F. V. James

We investigate whether collider experiments can reach the quantum limit of precision, defined by the quantum Fisher information (QFI), using only classical observables such as particle momenta. As a case study, we focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-17 Tengyu Ai , Qi Bi , Yuxin He , Jia Liu , Xiao-Ping Wang