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The signal to noise ratio of quantum sensing protocols scales with the square root of the coherence time. Thus, increasing this time is a key goal in the field. Dynamical decoupling has proven to be efficient in prolonging the coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Gilad Arrad , Yuval Vinkler , Dorit Aharonov , Alex Retzker

Time crystals, as temporal analogs of space crystals, manifest as stable and periodic behavior that breaks time translation symmetry. In an open quantum system, many-body interaction subjected to dissipation allows one to develop the time…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Yuechun Jiao , Weilun Jiang , Yu Zhang , Jingxu Bai , Yunhui He , Heng Shen , Jianming Zhao , Suotang Jia

Quantum computing and quantum sensing represent two distinct frontiers of quantum information science. In this work, we harness quantum computing to solve a fundamental and practically important sensing problem: the detection of weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Richard R. Allen , Francisco Machado , Isaac L. Chuang , Hsin-Yuan Huang , Soonwon Choi

We provide efficient and intuitive tools for deriving bounds on achievable precision in quantum enhanced metrology based on the geometry of quantum channels and semi-definite programming. We show that when decoherence is taken into account,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-19 Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski , Jan Kolodynski , Madalin Guta

We establish an intriguing connection between quantum phase transitions and bifurcations in the reduced fidelity between two different reduced density matrices for quantum lattice many-body systems with symmetry-breaking orders. Our finding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-20 Jin-Hua Liu , Qian-Qian Shi , Jian-Hui Zhao , Huan-Qiang Zhou

Dissipationless localized bound states of open quantum systems are significantly robust to decoherence and have potential applications in quantum technologies. In this work, the decoherence dynamics and dissipationless localized bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Chia-Yi Lin , Chuan-Zhe Yao , Hon-Lam Lai , Chin-Chun Tsai , Wei-Min Zhang

Quantum optical metrology aims to identify ultimate sensitivity bounds for the estimation of parameters encoded into quantum states of the electromagnetic field. In many practical applications, including imaging, microscopy, and remote…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Giacomo Sorelli , Manuel Gessner , Nicolas Treps , Mattia Walschaers

Driven-dissipative many-body system supports nontrivial quantum phases absent in equilibrium. As a prominent example, the interplay between coherent driving and collective dissipation can lead to a dynamical quantum phase that spontaneously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Zhuqing Wang , Ruochen Gao , Xiaoling Wu , Berislav Buča , Klaus Mølmer , Li You , Fan Yang

A simplified Heisenberg spin model is studied in order to examine the idea of decoherence in closed quantum systems. For this purpose, we present a quantifiable definition to quantum coherence $\Xi$, and discuss in some detail a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-18 Olavi Dannenberg

The superposition of quantum states lies at the heart of physics and has been recently found to serve as a versatile resource for quantum information protocols, defining the notion of quantum coherence. In this contribution, we report on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Valeria Cimini , Ilaria Gianani , Marco Sbroscia , Jan Sperling , Marco Barbieri

Quantum decoherence plays a pivotal role in the dynamical description of the quantum-to-classical transition and is the main impediment to the realization of devices for quantum information processing. This paper gives an overview of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 Maximilian Schlosshauer

Important properties of a quantum system are not directly measurable, but they can be disclosed by how fast the system changes under controlled perturbations. In particular, asymmetry and entanglement can be verified by reconstructing the…

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

In ordinary, non-relativistic, quantum physics, time enters only as a parameter and not as an observable: a state of a physical system is specified at a given time and then evolved according to the prescribed dynamics. While the state can,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 Joseph Fitzsimons , Jonathan Jones , Vlatko Vedral

A major goal of developing high-precision control of many-body quantum systems is to realise their potential as quantum computers. Probably the most significant obstacle in this direction is the problem of "decoherence": the extreme…

Optimal control theory, also known as Pontryagin's Maximum Principle, is applied to the quantum parameter estimation in the presence of decoherence. An efficient procedure is devised to compute the gradient of quantum Fisher information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Chungwei Lin , Yanting Ma , Dries Sels

We introduce new measures of decoherence appropriate for evaluation of quantum computing designs. Environment-induced deviation of a quantum system's evolution from controlled dynamics is quantified by a single numerical measure. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Leonid Fedichkin , Arkady Fedorov , Vladimir Privman

We show that the concept of bipartite fluctuations F provides a very efficient tool to detect quantum phase transitions in strongly correlated systems. Using state of the art numerical techniques complemented with analytical arguments, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-13 Stephan Rachel , Nicolas Laflorencie , H. Francis Song , Karyn Le Hur

Quantum metrology enables sensitivity to approach the limits set by fundamental physical laws. Even a single continuous mode offers enhanced precision, with the improvement scaling with its occupation number. Due to their high information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Piotr T. Grochowski , Radim Filip

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…