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Among the intriguing features of quantum theory, the problem of distinguishing quantum channels is of fundamental interest. In this paper, we focus on the single-shot discrimination of two noisy quantum channels using two distinct classes…

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We introduce a technique for the suppression of state-dependent and correlated measurement errors, which are commonly observed on modern superconducting quantum devices. Our method leverages previous results, establishing that correlated…

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While quantum metrology enables measurement precision beyond classical limits, its performance is often susceptible to experimental imperfections. Most prior studies have focused on imperfections in quantum states and operations. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Byeong-Yoon Go , Geunhee Gwak , Young-Do Yoon , Sungho Lee , Nicolas Treps , Jiyong Park , Young-Sik Ra

Quantum metrology is a promising application of quantum technologies, enabling the precise measurement of weak external fields at a local scale. In typical quantum sensing protocols, a qubit interacts with an external field, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Hideaki Kawaguchi , Yuichiro Mori , Takahiko Satoh , Yuichiro Matsuzaki

Simultaneous quantum estimation of multiple parameters has recently become essential in quantum metrology. Although the ultimate sensitivity of a multiparameter quantum estimation in noiseless environments can beat the standard quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Le Bin Ho , Hideaki Hakoshima , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Masayuki Matsuzaki , Yasushi Kondo

Equilibrium probes have been widely used in various noisy quantum metrology schemes. However, such an equilibrium-probe-based metrology scenario severely suffers from the low-temperature-error divergence problem in the weak-coupling regime.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Ze-Zhou Zhang , Hong-Gang Luo , Wei Wu

There is growing belief that the next decade will see the emergence of sensing devices based on the laws of quantum physics that outperform some of our current sensing devices. For example, in frequency estimation, using a probe prepared in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Shane Dooley , William J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

Nonlinear interactions are recognized as potential resources for quantum metrology, facilitating parameter estimation precisions that scale as the exponential Heisenberg limit of $2^{-N}$. We explore such nonlinearity and propose an…

We demonstrate how using two qubits can drastically improve the estimation of environment parameters as compared to using only a single qubit. The two qubits are coupled to a common harmonic oscillatorenvironment, and the properties of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Ali Raza Mirza , Adam Zaman Chaudhry

We propose a qubit-environment entanglement measure which is tailored for evolutions that lead to pure dephasing of the qubit, such as are abundant in solid state scenarios. The measure can be calculated directly form the density matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Katarzyna Roszak

Quantum metrology offers significant improvements in several quantum technologies. In this work, we propose a Gaussian quantum metrology protocol assisted by initial position-momentum correlations (PM). We employ a correlated Gaussian wave…

Using a single quantum probe to sense other quantum objects offers distinct advantages but suffers from some limitations that may degrade the sensing precision severely, especially when the probe-target coupling is weak. Here we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Yi-Nan Fang , Xing Xiao , Chang-Pu Sun , Wen Yang , Nan Zhao

Preparing the ground state of a local Hamiltonian is a crucial problem in understanding quantum many-body systems, with applications in a variety of physics fields and connections to combinatorial optimization. While various quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Benjamin F. Schiffer , Jordi Tura

We study an analog quantum simulator coupled to a reservoir with a known spectral density. The reservoir perturbs the quantum simulation by causing decoherence. The simulator is used to measure an operator average, which cannot be…

Quantum metrology explores quantum effects to improve the measurement accuracy of some physical quantities beyond the classical limit. However, due to the interaction between the system and the environment, the decoherence can significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Cheng-Ge Liu , Cong-Wei Lu , Na-Na Zhang , Qing Ai

The laws of quantum mechanics allow to perform measurements whose precision supersedes results predicted by classical parameter estimation theory. That is, the precision bound imposed by the central limit theorem in the estimation of a…

Quantum-enhanced sensing promises to improve the performance of sensing tasks using non-classical probes and measurements that require far fewer scene-modulated photons than the best classical schemes, thereby granting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Michael R. Grace , Christos N. Gagatsos , Saikat Guha

Quantum properties of the probes used to estimate a classical parameter can be used to attain accuracies that beat the standard quantum limit. When qubits are used to construct a quantum probe, it is known that initializing $n$ qubits in an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anil Shaji , Carlton M. Caves

Quantum metrology with entangled resources aims to achieve sensitivity beyond the standard quantum limit by harnessing quantum effects even in the presence of environmental noise. So far, sensitivity has been mainly discussed from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Kaoru Yamamoto , Suguru Endo , Hideaki Hakoshima , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Yuuki Tokunaga

The first generation of multi-qubit quantum technologies will consist of noisy, intermediate-scale devices for which active error correction remains out of reach. To exploit such devices, it is thus imperative to use passive error…