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In this paper, we aim to design the optimal sensor collaboration strategy for the estimation of time-varying parameters, where collaboration refers to the act of sharing measurements with neighboring sensors prior to transmission to a…

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Quantum learning encounters fundamental challenges when estimating non-linear properties, owing to the inherent linearity of quantum mechanics. Although recent advances in single-copy randomized measurement protocols have achieved optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Zhenyu Du , Yifan Tang , Andreas Elben , Ingo Roth , Jens Eisert , Zhenhuan Liu

We introduce a framework for simulating quantum measurements based on classical processing of a set of accessible measurements. Well-known concepts such as joint measurability and projective simulability naturally emerge as particular cases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Leonardo Guerini , Jessica Bavaresco , Marcelo Terra Cunha , Antonio Acín

Introducing quantum sensors as solution to real-world problem demands reliability and controllability outside laboratory conditions. Producers and operators ought to be assumed to have limited resources ready available for calibration, and…

We introduce sequential analysis in quantum information processing, by focusing on the fundamental task of quantum hypothesis testing. In particular our goal is to discriminate between two arbitrary quantum states with a prescribed error…

Measurement-based quantum computing (MBQC) in linear optical systems is promising for near-future quantum computing architecture. However, the nondeterministic nature of entangling operations and photon losses hinder the large-scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Seok-Hyung Lee , Srikrishna Omkar , Yong Siah Teo , Hyunseok Jeong

Measurement is a fundamental operation in quantum computing and has many important use cases in quantum algorithms. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the basic measurement operations in quantum computing and represents a…

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

Quantum sensors are an established technology that has created new opportunities for precision sensing across the breadth of science. Using entanglement for quantum-enhancement will allow us to construct the next generation of sensors that…

In this paper, we theoretically and experimentally analyze sequential processors with limited communication between parts. We compare the expressivity of sequential quantum and classical processors under the same constraints. They consist…

We introduce a general scheme for sequential one-way quantum computation where static systems with long-living quantum coherence (memories) interact with moving systems that may possess very short coherence times. Both the generation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Augusto J. Roncaglia , Leandro Aolita , Alessandro Ferraro , Antonio Acin

It is known that quantum correlations exhibited by a maximally entangled qubit pair can be simulated with the help of shared randomness, supplemented with additional resources, such as communication, post-selection or non-local boxes. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Julien Degorre , Sophie Laplante , Jérémie Roland

Resolving signals with closely spaced frequencies is central to applications in communications, spectroscopy and sensing. Recent results have shown that quantum sensing protocols can exhibit superresolution, the ability to discriminate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Joseph T. Iosue , Paraj Titum , Taohan Lin , Clare Lau , Leigh M. Norris

Calibration of quantum gates is a necessary hurdle to overcome on the way to a reliable quantum computer. In a recent paper, a protocol called Gate Set Calibration protocol (GSC) has been introduced and used to learn coherent errors from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Yaiza Aragonés-Soria , René Otten , Tobias Hangleiter , Pascal Cerfontaine , David Gross

Characterization of quantum systems from experimental data is a central problem in quantum science and technology. But which measurements should be used to gather data in the first place? While optimal measurement choices can be worked out…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Jiaxin Huang , Yan Zhu , Giulio Chiribella , Ya-Dong Wu

Sequences of commuting quantum operators can be parallelized using entanglement. This transformation is behind some optimal quantum metrology protocols and recent results on quantum circuit complexity. We show that dephasing quantum maps in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-29 Sergio Boixo , Chris Heunen

We propose a comparative performance evaluation of security protocols. The novelty of our approach lies in the use of a polynomial mathematical model that captures the performance of classes of cryptographic algorithms instead of capturing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-10-21 Bela Genge , Piroska Haller

A distributed sensing protocol uses a network of local sensing nodes to estimate a global feature of the network, such as a weighted average of locally detectable parameters. In the noiseless case, continuous-variable multipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-28 Quntao Zhuang , John Preskill , Liang Jiang

In this work, we propose a joint collaboration-compression framework for sequential estimation of a random vector parameter in a resource constrained wireless sensor network (WSN). Specifically, we propose a framework where the local…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Xiancheng Cheng , Prashant Khanduri , Boxiao Chen , Pramod K. Varshney

In characterization of quantum systems, adapting measurement settings based on data while it is collected can generally outperform in efficiency conventional measurements that are carried out independently of data. The existing methods for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Markku P. V. Stenberg , Frank K. Wilhelm