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High precision measurements are essential to solve major scientific and technological challenges, from gravitational wave detection to healthcare diagnostics. Quantum sensing delivers greater precision, but an in-depth optimisation of…

Design of experiments has traditionally relied on the frequentist hypothesis testing framework where the optimal size of the experiment is specified as the minimum sample size that guarantees a required level of power. Sample size…

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We propose a new procedure named PASOA, for Bayesian experimental design, that performs sequential design optimization by simultaneously providing accurate estimates of successive posterior distributions for parameter inference. The…

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Phase estimation with potentially large phase values, i.e., with large dynamic range, has many applications in quantum metrology, for example to atomic clocks. A recently proposed phase estimation scheme approaches the Heisenberg scaling in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Tyler G. Thurtell , Akimasa Miyake

The efficiency of an experimental design is ultimately measured in terms of time and resources needed for the experiment. Optimal sequential (multi-stage) design is studied in the situation where each stage involves a fixed cost. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-08 Juha Karvanen

We develop an iterative, adaptive frequency sensing protocol based on Ramsey interferometry of a two-level system. Our scheme allows one to estimate unknown frequencies with a high precision from short, finite signals. It avoids several…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Avishek Chowdhury , Anh Tuan Le , Eva M. Weig , Hugo Ribeiro

Quantum phase estimation is a central primitive in quantum algorithms and sensing, where performance is governed by the sensitivity of measurement signals to the target parameter. While existing methods have developed increasingly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Zikang Jia , Suying Liu , Yulong Dong

Quantum phase estimation is a paradigmatic problem in quantum sensing andmetrology. Here we show that adaptive methods based on classical machinelearning algorithms can be used to enhance the precision of quantum phase estimation when noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Nelson Filipe Costa , Yasser Omar , Aidar Sultanov , Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

We introduce Bayesian optimization, a technique developed for optimizing time-consuming engineering simulations and for fitting machine learning models on large datasets. Bayesian optimization guides the choice of experiments during…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-22 Peter I. Frazier , Jialei Wang

Phase estimation protocols provide a fundamental benchmark for the field of quantum metrology. The latter represents one of the most relevant applications of quantum theory, potentially enabling the capability of measuring unknown physical…

In this study, we demonstrate a sequential experimental design for spectral measurements by active learning using parametric models as predictors. In spectral measurements, it is necessary to reduce the measurement time because of sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Tomohiro Nabika , Kenji Nagata , Shun Katakami , Masaichiro Mizumaki , Masato Okada

Simulation models of critical systems often have parameters that need to be calibrated using observed data. For expensive simulation models, calibration is done using an emulator of the simulation model built on simulation output at…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-24 Özge Sürer , Matthew Plumlee , Stefan M. Wild

A general approach is introduced for the efficient simultaneous optimization of pulses that compensate each other' s imperfections within the same scan. This is applied to broadband Ramsey-type experiments, resulting in pulses with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Michael Braun , Steffen J. Glaser

Randomized experiments are the gold standard for evaluating the effects of changes to real-world systems. Data in these tests may be difficult to collect and outcomes may have high variance, resulting in potentially large measurement error.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-27 Benjamin Letham , Brian Karrer , Guilherme Ottoni , Eytan Bakshy

Bayesian methods which utilize Bayes' theorem to update the knowledge of desired parameters after each measurement, are used in a wide range of quantum science. For various applications in quantum science, efficiently and accurately…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Chengyin Han , Jiahao Huang , Xunda Jiang , Ruihuan Fang , Yuxiang Qiu , Bo Lu , Chaohong Lee

Ramsey interferometry is a widely used tool for precisely measuring transition frequencies between two energy levels of a quantum system, with applications in time-keeping, precision spectroscopy, quantum optics, and quantum information.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 H. Hainzer , D. Kiesenhofer , T. Ollikainen , M. Bock , F. Kranzl , M. K. Joshi , G. Yoeli , R. Blatt , T. Gefen , C. F. Roos

A two-level quantum system evolving under a time-independent Hamiltonian produces oscillatory measurement probabilities. The estimation of the associated frequency is a cornerstone problem in quantum metrology, sensing, calibration and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Alexandra Ramôa , Luís Paulo Santos , Akihito Soeda

Accurate calibration of control parameters in quantum gates is crucial for high-fidelity operations, yet it represents a significant time and resource challenge, necessitating periods of downtime for quantum computers. Robust Phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Travis Hurant , Ke Sun , Zhubing Jia , Jungsang Kim , Kenneth R. Brown

This paper presents an entropy based adaptive measurement sequence strategy for quantum sensing of magnetic fields. To physically ground our ideas we consider a sensor employing a nitrogen vacancy center in diamond, however our approach is…

We study the problem of sequential experimental design to estimate the parametric component of a partially linear model with a Gaussian process prior. We consider an active learning setting where an experimenter adaptively decides which…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-07 Shunsuke Horii