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We present a method to estimate the quantum Fisher information (QFI) of many-body quantum states in the presence of decoherence, where its direct evaluation requires the full spectral resolution of the density matrix. We show that, for…

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We consider channel estimation specific to turbo equalization for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication. We develop a soft-decision-driven sequential algorithm geared to the pipelined turbo equalizer architecture…

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We address characterization of lossy and dephasing channels in the presence of self-Kerr interaction using coherent probes. In particular, we investigate the ultimate bounds to precision in the joint estimation of loss and nonlinearity and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Michele N. Notarnicola , Stefano Olivares , Matteo G. A. Paris

This article examines the problem of state estimation over multi-terminal channels in an unreliable regime. More specifically, we consider two canonical settings. In the first setting, measurements of a common stochastic source need to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Touraj Soleymani , Deniz Gündüz

Quantum learning (in metrology and machine learning) involves estimating unknown parameters from measurements of quantum states. The quantum Fisher information matrix can bound the average amount of information learnt about the unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Joe H. Jenne , David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur

Algorithms for mutual interference mitigation and object parameter estimation are a key enabler for automotive applications of frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar. In this paper, we introduce a signal separation method to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Mate Toth , Erik Leitinger , Klaus Witrisal

We revisit the problem of estimating an unknown parameter of a pure quantum state, and investigate `null-measurement' strategies in which the experimenter aims to measure in a basis that contains a vector close to the true system state.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Federico Girotti , Alfred Godley , Mădălin Guţă

Accurate control of quantum systems requires precise measurement of the parameters that govern the dynamics, including control fields and interactions with the environment. Parameters will drift in time and experiments interleave protocols…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Swarnadeep Majumder , Leonardo Andreta de Castro , Kenneth R. Brown

A new estimation scheme based on the split-step quantum walk (SSQW) revealed that by just setting a single parameter, SSQW can potentially achieve quantum Crame\'r-Rao bound in multiparameter estimation. This parameter even does not involve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Majid Moradi , Mostafa Annabestani

In the problem of quantum channel discrimination, one distinguishes between a given number of quantum channels, which is done by sending an input state through a channel and measuring the output state. This work studies applications of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 Andrey Kardashin , Anna Vlasova , Anastasiia Pervishko , Dmitry Yudin , Jacob Biamonte

Gradient-based optimization is a key ingredient of variational quantum algorithms, with applications ranging from quantum machine learning to quantum chemistry and simulation. The parameter-shift rule provides a hardware-friendly method for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Leonardo Banchi , Dominic Branford , Chetan Waghela

The Cramer-Rao bound, satisfied by classical Fisher information, a key quantity in information theory, has been shown in different contexts to give rise to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. In this paper, we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Yakov Bloch , Eliahu Cohen

In this paper, we propose an oversampling based low-resolution aware least squares channel estimator for large-scale multiple-antenna systems with 1-bit analog-to-digital converters on each receive antenna. To mitigate the information loss…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-15 Z. Shao , L. Landau , R. de Lamare

Estimating correctly the quantum phase of a physical system is a central problem in quantum parameter estimation theory due to its wide range of applications from quantum metrology to cryptography. Ideally, the optimal quantum estimator is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Marco A. Rodríguez-García , Isaac Pérez Castillo , P. Barberis-Blostein

By using the quantum Fisher information (QFI), we address the process of \textit{single}-parameter estimation in the presence of bosonic as well as fermionic environments and protection of information against the noise. In particular, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Hossein Rangani Jahromi , Mansoureh Amini , Mohammad Ghanaatian

We investigate strategies for reaching the ultimate limit on the precision of frequency estimation when the number of probes used in each run of the experiment is fixed. That limit is set by the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound (QCRB), which…

In a unified viewpoint in quantum channel estimation, we compare the Cramer-Rao and the mini-max approaches, which gives the Bayesian bound in the group covariant model. For this purpose, we introduce the local asymptotic mini-max bound,…

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We investigate the quantum parameter estimation in circuit quantum electrodynamics via dispersive measurement. Based on the Metropolis Hastings (MH) algorithm and the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) integration, a new algorithm is proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 Beili Gong , Yang Yang , Wei Cui

Quantum channels describe the most general dynamics of open quantum systems. A quantum channel, as a linear map on vectorized quantum states, can be represented by a single matrix, whose spectrum is called the channel spectrum. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Yuan-De Jin , Wen-Long Ma

This work presents a differentiable geometric parameterization of quantum channels in Kraus representation, which can be efficiently probed to find an unknown quantum channel. We explore its feasibility in finding the quasi inverse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Zain Ateeq , Muhammad Faryad