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Precision measurement has been an important research area in sensing and metrology. In classical physics, the Fisher information determines the maximum extractable information from statistically unknown signals, based on a joint probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Byoung S. Ham

We experimentally demonstrate the simultaneous estimation of the three parameters characterizing a pair of incoherent optical sources in the sub-Rayleigh regime, enabling super-resolved scene characterization. Using spatial-mode…

As a method to extract information from optical system, imaging can be viewed as a parameter estimation problem. The fundamental precision in locating one emitter or estimating the separation between two incoherent emitters is bounded below…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 Ben Wang , Liang Xu , Lijian Zhang

We demonstrate an approach to obtaining near quantum-limited far-field imaging resolution of incoherent sources with arbitrary distributions. Our method assumes no prior knowledge of the source distribution, but rather uses an adaptive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-28 Erik F. Matlin , Lucas J. Zipp

In this paper we use the Cramer-Rao lower uncertainty bound to estimate the maximum precision that could be achieved on the joint simultaneous (or 2D) estimation of photometry and astrometry of a point source measured by a linear CCD…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Rene A. Mendez , Jorge F. Silva , Rodrigo Orsotica , Rodrigo Lobos

We determine analytically the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound for the estimation of the separation between two point sources in arbitrary Gaussian states. Our analytical expression is valid for arbitrary sources brightness, and it allows to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Giacomo Sorelli , Manuel Gessner , Mattia Walschaers , Nicolas Treps

Recent works identified resolution limits for the distance between incoherent point sources. However, it remains unclear how to choose suitable observables and estimators to reach these limits in practical situations. Here, we show how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Giacomo Sorelli , Manuel Gessner , Mattia Walschaers , Nicolas Treps

Quantum metrology has been shown to surpass classical limits of correlation, resolution, and sensitivity. It has been introduced to interferometric Radar schemes, with intriguing preliminary results. Even quantum-inspired detection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Leonid Vidro , Liran Shirizly , Naftali Kirsh , Nadav Katz , Hagai S. Eisenberg

Already since the work by Abbe and Rayleigh the difficulty of super resolution where one wants to recover a collection of point sources from low-resolved microscopy measurements is thought to be dependent on whether the distance between the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Mathias Hockmann

Resolving signals with closely spaced frequencies is central to applications in communications, spectroscopy and sensing. Recent results have shown that quantum sensing protocols can exhibit superresolution, the ability to discriminate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Joseph T. Iosue , Paraj Titum , Taohan Lin , Clare Lau , Leigh M. Norris

We present a new proof of the quantum Cramer-Rao bound for precision parameter estimation [1-3] and extend it to a more general class of measurement procedures. We analyze a generalized framework for parameter estimation that covers most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-28 Garry Goldstein , Mikhail D. Lukin , Paola Cappellaro

This paper develops a mathematical theory of super-resolution. Broadly speaking, super-resolution is the problem of recovering the fine details of an object---the high end of its spectrum---from coarse scale information only---from samples…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-15 Emmanuel Candes , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

A central challenge in quantum metrology is identifying optimal measurements that saturate the quantum Cramer-Rao bound under realistic constraints, e.g., local measurements. We show that symmetries of the probe state provide a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Jia-Xuan Liu , Hai-Long Shi , Chunfeng Wu , Sixia Yu

The quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound for the joint estimation of the centroid and the separation between two incoherent point sources cannot be saturated. As such, the optimal measurements for extracting maximal information about both at the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 J. Řeháček , J. L. Romero , A. Z. Goldberg , Z. Hradil , L. L. Sánchez-Soto

This paper focuses on the fundamental aspects of super-resolution, particularly addressing the stability of super-resolution and the estimation of two-point resolution. Our first major contribution is the introduction of two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Ping Liu , Habib Ammari

The field of quantum sensing explores the use of quantum phenomena to measure a broad range of physical quantities, of both static and time-dependent types. An important figure of merit for sensing time dependent signals is the spectral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Tuvia Gefen , Amit Rotem , Alex Retzker

Resolving high-contrast targets is a fundamental yet highly challenging task in astronomy. Using quantum estimation theory, we demonstrate that the ultimate limit for estimating the separation between two unequal-brightness thermal sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Chenyu Hu , Ben Wang , Jiandong Zhang , Kunxu Wang , Huigen Liu , Jilin Zhou , Lijian Zhang

Motivated by the importance of optical microscopes to science and engineering, scientists have pondered for centuries how to improve their resolution and the existence of fundamental resolution limits. In recent years, a new class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Mankei Tsang

In this paper, we address the problem of recovering point sources from two dimensional low-pass measurements, which is known as super-resolution problem. This is the fundamental concern of many applications such as electronic imaging,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Iman Valiulahi , Sajad Daei , Farzan Haddadi , Farzad Parvaresh

Super-resolution is a fundamental task in imaging, where the goal is to extract fine-grained structure from coarse-grained measurements. Here we are interested in a popular mathematical abstraction of this problem that has been widely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-30 Ankur Moitra