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Variance and Fisher information are ingredients of the Cramer-Rao inequality. We regard Fisher information as a Riemannian metric on a quantum statistical manifold and choose monotonicity under coarse graining as the fundamental property of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Denes Petz

Quantum mechanics gives a new breakthrough to the field of parameter estimation. In the realm of quantum metrology, the precision of parameter estimation is limited by the quantum Fisher information. We introduce the measures of partial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Dong-Ping Xuan , Zhong-Xi Shen , Wen Zhou , Hua Nan , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhi-Xi Wang

We derive a general upper bound to mutual information in terms of the Fisher information. The bound may be further used to derive a lower bound for the Bayesian quadratic cost. These two provide alternatives to other inequalities in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Wojciech Górecki , Xi Lu , Chiara Macchiavello , Lorenzo Maccone

The quantum Fisher information, the quantum analogue of the classical Fisher information, is a central quantity in quantum metrology and quantum sensing due to its connection to parameter estimation and fidelity susceptibility. Using…

We propose to use the quantum Fisher information in characterizing the information flow of open quantum systems. This information-theoretic approach provides a quantitative measure to statistically distinguish Markovian and non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Xiao-Ming Lu , Xiaoguang Wang , C. P. Sun

We consider the impact that temporal correlations in the measurement statistics can have on the achievable precision in a sequential metrological protocol. In this setting, and for a single quantum probe, we establish that it is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Eoin O'Connor , Steve Campbell , Gabriel T. Landi

We provide a new expression of the quantum Fisher information(QFI) for a general system. Utilizing this expression, the QFI for a non-full rank density matrix is only determined by its support. This expression can bring convenience for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-31 Jing Liu , Xiao-Xing Jing , Wei Zhong , Xiaoguang Wang

Recent developments surrounding resource theories have shown that any quantum state or measurement resource, with respect to a convex (and compact) set of resourceless objects, provides an advantage in a tailored subchannel or state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Roope Uola , Tristan Kraft , Alastair A. Abbott

Which quantum phenomena are advantageous for information processing tasks? By classifying quantum states as resourceful versus non-resourceful, or free, the mathematical formalism of quantum resource theories helps to address such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Leah Turner , Madalin Guta , Gerardo Adesso

Alternative proofs for the superadditivity and the affinity (in the large system limit) of the usual and some fractional Fisher informations of a probability density of many variables are provided. They are consequences of the fact that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Nicolas Rougerie

Famously, the quantum Fisher information -- the maximum Fisher information over all physical measurements -- is additive for independent copies of a system and the optimal measurement acts locally. We are left to wonder: does the same hold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Javier Navarro , Simon Morelli , Mikel Sanz , Mohammad Mehboudi

We review the introduction of likelihood functions and Fisher information in classical estimation theory, and we show how they can be defined in a very similar manner within quantum measurement theory. We show that the stochastic master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 Søren Gammelmark , Klaus Mølmer

The minimum achievable statistical uncertainty in the estimation of physical parameters is determined by the quantum Fisher information. Its computation for noisy systems is still a challenging problem. Using a variational approach, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 B. M. Escher , L. Davidovich , N. Zagury , R. L. de Matos Filho

The subject of this paper is a mathematical transition from the Fisher information of classical statistics to the matrix formalism of quantum theory. If the monotonicity is the main requirement, then there are several quantum versions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Denes Petz , Catalin Ghinea

Quantum synchronization has emerged as a crucial phenomenon in quantum nonlinear dynamics with potential applications in quantum information processing. Multiple measures for quantifying quantum synchronization exist. However, there is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Yuan Shen , Hong Yi Soh , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Weijun Fan

In most quantum technologies, measurements need to be performed on the parametrized quantum states to transform the quantum information to classical information. The measurements, however, inevitably distort the information. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Hongzhen Chen , Yu Chen , Haidong Yuan

The Cramer-Rao bound, satisfied by classical Fisher information, a key quantity in information theory, has been shown in different contexts to give rise to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. In this paper, we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Yakov Bloch , Eliahu Cohen

The quantum Fisher information represents the continuous family of metrics on the space of quantum states and places the fundamental limit on the accuracy of quantum state estimation. We show that the entire family of the quantum Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Tomohiro Shitara , Masahito Ueda

Preconditioning with the quantum Fisher information matrix (QFIM) is a popular approach in quantum variational algorithms. Yet the QFIM is costly to obtain directly, usually requiring more state preparation than its classical counterpart:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Jianfeng Lu , Kecen Sha

Resource theories play an important role in quantum information theory, as they identify resourceful states and channels that are potentially useful for the accomplishment of tasks that would be otherwise unreachable. The elementary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 A. C. S. Costa , R. M. Angelo