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The unknown temperature of a sample may be estimated with minimal disturbance by putting it in thermal contact with an individual quantum probe. If the interaction time is sufficiently long so that the probe thermalizes, the temperature can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Luis A. Correa , Mohammad Mehboudi , Gerardo Adesso , Anna Sanpera

We upper- and lower-bound the optimal precision with which one can estimate an unknown Hamiltonian parameter via measurements of Gibbs thermal states with a known temperature. The bounds depend on the uncertainty in the Hamiltonian term…

The thermal transport community is increasingly interested in rigorous uncertainty quantification (UQ) of their measurements. In this work, we argue that Bayesian parameter estimation (BPE) represents a powerful framework for both…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-17 Jeremy Drew , Shravan Godse , Yuxing Liang , Abhishek Pathak , Jonathan A. Malen , Rachel C. Kurchin

A generalization of Buttiker's voltage probe concept for nonzero temperatures is an open third terminal of a quantum thermoelectric circuit. An explicit analytic expression for the thermoelectric correction to an ideal quantum voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Justin P. Bergfield , Charles A. Stafford

Estimating the temperature of a cold quantum system is difficult. Usually, one measures a well-understood thermal state and uses that prior knowledge to infer its temperature. In contrast, we introduce a method of thermometry that assumes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 T. H. Johnson , F. Cosco , M. T. Mitchison , D. Jaksch , S. R. Clark

We consider the problem of estimating a temperature-dependent thermal conductivity model (curve) from temperature measurements. We apply a Bayesian estimation approach that takes into account measurement errors and limited prior information…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Rodrigo L. S. Silva , Clemens Verhoosel , Erik Quaeghebeur

Decoherence often happens in the quantum world. We try to utilize quantum dephasing to build an optimal thermometry. By calculating the Cram$\acute{e}$r-Rao bound, we prove that the Ramsey measurement is the optimal way to measure the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu , Anmin Wang

Taking accurate measurements of the temperature of quantum systems is a challenging task. The mathematical peculiarities of quantum information make it virtually impossible to measure with infinite precision. In the present paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Akira Sone , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto , Sebastian Deffner

We provide a detailed description of the quantum interferometric thermometer, which is a device that estimates the temperature of a sample from the measurements of the optical phase. For the first time, we rigorously analyze the operation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 Marcin Jarzyna , Marcin Zwierz

It is known that temperature estimates of macroscopic systems in equilibrium are most precise when their energy fluctuations are large. However, for nanoscale systems deviations from standard thermodynamics arise due to their interactions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-14 Harry J. D. Miller , Janet Anders

We consider probe-based quantum thermometry and show that machine classification can provide model-independent estimation with quantifiable error assessment. Our approach is based on the k-nearest-neighbor algorithm. The machine is trained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Fabrício S. Luiz , A. de Oliveira Junior , Felipe F. Fanchini , Gabriel T. Landi

Quantum thermometry aims at determining temperature with ultimate precision in the quantum regime. Standard equilibrium approaches, limited by the Quantum Fisher Information given by static energy fluctuations, lose sensitivity outside a…

Temperature of a finite-sized system fluctuates due to the thermal fluctuations. However, a systematic mathematical framework for measuring or estimating the temperature is still underdeveloped. Here, we incorporate the estimation theory in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-17 Shaoyong Zhang , Zhaoyu Fei , Xiaoguang Wang

We have constructed a Bayesian neural network able of retrieving tropospheric temperature profiles from rotational Raman-scatter measurements of nitrogen and oxygen and applied it to measurements taken by the RAman Lidar for Meteorological…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Ghazal Farhani , Giovanni Martucci , Tyler Roberts , Alexander Haefele , Robert J. Sica

Single-qubit thermometry presents the simplest tool to measure the temperature of thermal baths with reduced invasivity. At thermal equilibrium, the temperature uncertainty is linked to the heat capacity of the qubit, however the best…

The Unruh effect, predicting a thermal reservoir for accelerating systems, calls for a more refined understanding of measurement processes involving quantum systems as thermometers. Conventional models fail to account for the inherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 M. Cardi , P. Solinas , N. Zanghì

A nonparametric Bayesian approach is developed to determine quantum potentials from empirical data for quantum systems at finite temperature. The approach combines the likelihood model of quantum mechanics with a priori information over…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. Lemm , J. Uhlig , A. Weiguny

Quantum thermodynamics has emerged as a separate sub-discipline, revising the concepts and laws of thermodynamics, at the quantum scale. In particular, there has been a disruptive shift in the way thermometry, and thermometers are perceived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Wai-Keong Mok , Kishor Bharti , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Abolfazl Bayat

A key factor in ensuring the accuracy of computer simulations that model physical systems is the proper calibration of their parameters based on real-world observations or experimental data. Inevitably, uncertainties arise, and Bayesian…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Daniel Andrés Arcones , Martin Weiser , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis , Jörg F. Unger

What is the minimum time required to take a temperature? In this paper, we solve this question for a large class of processes where temperature is inferred by measuring a probe (the thermometer) weakly coupled to the sample of interest, so…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Pavel Sekatski , Martí Perarnau-Llobet