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Critical ground states of quantum many-body systems have emerged as vital resources for quantum-enhanced sensing. Traditional methods to prepare these states often rely on adiabatic evolution, which may diminish the quantum sensing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 Hang Xu , Tailong Xiao , Jingzheng Huang , Ming He , Jianping Fan , Guihua Zeng

Quantum measurements, alongside quantum states and processes, form a cornerstone of quantum information processing. However, unlike states and processes, their efficient characterisation remains relatively unexplored. We resolve this…

The critical quantum metrology, which exploits the quantum phase transition for high precision measurement, has gained increasing attention recently. The critical quantum metrology with the continuous quantum phase transition, however, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Ran Liu , Yu Chen , Min Jiang , Xiaodong Yang , Ze Wu , Yuchen Li , Haidong Yuan , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

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…

Quantum systems can be used as probes in the context of metrology for enhanced parameter estimation. In particular, the delicacy of critical systems to perturbations can make them ideal sensors. Arguably the simplest realistic probe system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 George Mihailescu , Abolfazl Bayat , Steve Campbell , Andrew K. Mitchell

Quantum sensing improves the accuracy of measurements of relevant parameters by exploiting the unique properties of quantum systems. The divergent susceptibility of physical systems near a critical point for quantum phase transition enables…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Jia-Hao Lü , Wen Ning , Xin Zhu , Fan Wu , Li-Tuo Shen , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

We study the squeezing dynamics in a Kerr-nonlinear oscillator, and quantify the metrological usefulness of the resulting states. Even if the nonlinearity limits the attainable squeezing by making the evolution non-Gaussian, the states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Jiajie Guo , Qiongyi He , Matteo Fadel

We study the performance of a single qubit-laser as a quantum sensor to measure the amplitude and phase of a driving field. By using parameter estimation theory we show that certain suitable field quadratures are optimal observables in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Samuel Fernández-Lorenzo , Diego Porras

Berry phases and the quantum-information theoretic notion of fidelity have been recently used to analyze quantum phase transitions from a geometrical perspective. In this paper we unify these two approaches showing that the underlying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-10 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Paolo Zanardi

Quantum metrology is being gradually studied for weak measurement systems. For weak measurement systems with thermal state pointer, we find that in the displacement space corresponding to imaginary weak values, the maximal QFI after…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Gang Li , Li-Bo Chen , Tao Wang , Zhi-Hui He , He-Shan Song

The accuracy of quantum measurements can be effectively improved by using both photon-added non-Gaussian operations and Kerr nonlinear phase shifters. Here, we employ coherent state mixed photon-added squeezed vacuum state as input into a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Zekun Zhao , Qingqian Kang , Shoukang Chang , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Xin Su , Liyun Hu

Quantum systems that undergo quantum phase transitions exhibit divergent susceptibility and can be exploited as probes to estimate physical parameters. We generalize the dynamic framework for criticality-enhanced quantum sensing by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Xin Zhu , Jia-Hao Lü , Wen Ning , Fan Wu , Li-Tuo Shen , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

Quantum metrology has many important applications in science and technology, ranging from frequency spectroscopy to gravitational wave detection. Quantum mechanics imposes a fundamental limit on measurement precision, called the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Sisi Zhou , Mengzhen Zhang , John Preskill , Liang Jiang

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

There is no fundamental limit to the precision of a classical measurement. The position of a meter's needle can be determined with an arbitrarily small uncertainty. In the quantum realm, however, fundamental quantum fluctuations due to the…

We argue that it is possible in principle to reduce the uncertainty of an atomic magnetometer by double-passing a far-detuned laser field through the atomic sample as it undergoes Larmor precession. Numerical simulations of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-17 Bradley A. Chase , Ben Q. Baragiola , Heather L. Partner , Brigette D. Black , JM Geremia

Continuous monitoring of driven-dissipative quantum optical systems is a crucial element in the implementation of quantum metrology, providing essential strategies for achieving highly precise measurements beyond the classical limit. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Dayou Yang , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Quantum phase transitions occur when the ground state of a quantum system undergoes a qualitative change when an external control parameter reaches a critical value. Here, we demonstrate a technique for studying quantum systems undergoing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-14 Jingfu Zhang , Xinhua Peng , Nageswaran Rajendran , Dieter Suter

Quantum sensors are powerful devices that exploit quantum effects to detect minute quantities with extremely high precision. Two obstacles to harnessing the full capacity of quantum probes are the resource-intensive preparation of the probe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Dingwei Zhao , Abolfazl Bayat , Victor Montenegro

As one of the main pillars of quantum technologies, quantum metrology aims to improve measurement precision using techniques from quantum information. The two main strategies to achieve this are the preparation of nonclassical states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Matteo Fadel , Noah Roux , Manuel Gessner