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Breaking the standard quantum limit in the sensing of parameters at different spatial locations, such as in a quantum network, is of great importance. Using the framework of quantum Fisher information, many strategies based on squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Girish S. Agarwal

We propose an experimentally accessible scheme to determine lower bounds on the quantum Fisher information (QFI), which ascertains multipartite entanglement or usefulness for quantum metrology. The scheme is based on comparing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-14 Florian Fröwis , Pavel Sekatski , Wolfgang Dür

Squeezing as a quantum resource for quantum metrology is robust against decoherence and dissipation, while the conventional nonlinear two-photon quantum Rabi model (QRM) provides a squeezing resource immune to the divergence problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Zu-Jian Ying

Recent work considered the ultimate (quantum) limit of the precision of estimating the distance between two point objects. It was shown that the performance gap between the quantum limit and that of ideal continuum image-plane direct…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-03 Zachary Dutton , Ronan Kerviche , Amit Ashok , Saikat Guha

The Fisher Information Metric (FIM) and the associated Cram\'er-Rao Bound (CRB) are fundamental tools in statistical signal processing, which inform the efficient design of experiments and algorithms for estimating the underlying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Shiraz Khan , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Quantum systems used for metrology can offer enhanced precision over their classical counterparts. The design of quantum sensors can be optimized by maximizing the quantum Fisher information (QFI), which characterizes the precision of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 George Mihailescu , Anthony Kiely , Andrew K. Mitchell

We analyze the fundamental quantum limit of the resolution of an optical imaging system from the perspective of the detection problem of deciding whether the optical field in the image plane is generated by one incoherent on-axis source…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 Xiao-Ming Lu , Hari Krovi , Ranjith Nair , Saikat Guha , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

By projecting onto complex optical mode profiles, it is possible to estimate arbitrarily small separations between objects with quantum-limited precision, free of uncertainty arising from overlapping intensity profiles. Here we extend these…

Quantum estimation theory provides optimal observations for various estimation problems for unknown parameters in the state of the system under investigation. However, the theory has been developed under the assumption that every observable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Hotta , M. Ozawa

A standard paradigm of localization microscopy involves extension from two to three dimensions by engineering information into emitter images, and approximation of errors resulting from the field dependence of optical aberrations. We invert…

Quantum metrology studies the ultimate precision limit of physical quantities by using quantum strategy. In this paper we apply the quantum metrology technologies to the relativistic framework for estimating the deficit angle parameter of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-11 Ying Yang , Jiliang Jing , Zehua Tian

In the study of quantum limits to parameter estimation, the high dimensionality of the density operator and that of the unknown parameters have long been two of the most difficult challenges. Here we propose a theory of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Mankei Tsang , Francesco Albarelli , Animesh Datta

The Quantum Fisher Information Matrix (QFIM) is a fundamental quantity in various subfields of quantum physics. It plays a crucial role in the study of parameterized quantum states, as it quantifies their sensitivity to variations in its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Rafael Gómez-Lurbe

We theoretically study the angular displacements estimation based on a modified Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), in which two optical parametric amplifiers (PAs) are introduced into two arms of the standard MZI, respectively. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-10 Gao-Feng Jiao , Qiang Wang , L. Q. Chen , Weiping Zhang , Chun-Hua Yuan

Accurately estimating the position of a wireless emitter in a multipath environment based on samples received at various base stations (in known locations) has been extensively explored in the literature. Existing approaches often assume…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Asaf Afriat , Dan Raphaeli , Oded Bialer

Estimating correctly the quantum phase of a physical system is a central problem in quantum parameter estimation theory due to its wide range of applications from quantum metrology to cryptography. Ideally, the optimal quantum estimator is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Marco A. Rodríguez-García , Isaac Pérez Castillo , P. Barberis-Blostein

Quantum imaging with undetected photons relies on the principle of induced coherence without induced emission and uses two sources of photon-pairs with a signal- and an idler photon. Each pair shares strong quantum correlations in both…

We study the existence of the maximal quantum Fisher information matrix in multi-parameter quantum estimation, which bounds the ultimate precision limit. We show that when the maximal quantum Fisher information matrix exists, it can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Yu Chen , Haidong Yuan

Quantum Fisher information (QFI) is a measure of multipartite quantum entanglement that can be obtained from inelastic neutron scattering data on quantum magnets. In this work, we demonstrate that the QFI can distinguish an unconventional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-23 Zhengbang Zhou , Chengkang Zhou , Menghan Song , Yong Baek Kim , Zi Yang Meng

In order to provide a guaranteed precision and a more accurate judgement about the true value of the Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound and its scaling behavior, an upper bound (equivalently a lower bound on the quantum Fisher information) for precision…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-04 R. Yousefjani , S. Salimi , A. S. Khorashad