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Quantum criticality has been demonstrated as a useful quantum resource for parameter estimation. This includes second-order, topological and localization transitions. In all these works reported so far, gap-to-gapless transition at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Sayan Mondal , Ayan Sahoo , Ujjwal Sen , Debraj Rakshit

Quantum metrology, a cornerstone of quantum technologies, exploits entanglement and superposition to achieve higher precision than classical protocols in parameter estimation tasks. When combined with critical phenomena such as phase…

Critical metrology relies on the precise preparation of a system in its ground state near a quantum phase transition point where quantum correlations get very strong. Typically this increases the quantum Fisher information with respect to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Christoph Hotter , Helmut Ritsch , Karol Gietka

In this work, we study temperature sensing with finite-sized strongly correlated systems exhibiting quantum phase transitions. We use the quantum Fisher information (QFI) approach to quantify the sensitivity in the temperature estimation,…

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 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

Entangled many-body states enable high-precision quantum sensing beyond the standard quantum limit. We develop interferometric sensing protocols based on quantum critical wavefunctions and compare their performance with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Yinan Chen , Sara Murciano , Pablo Sala , Jason Alicea

Critical quantum metrology relies on the extreme sensitivity of a system's eigenstates near the critical point of a quantum phase transition to Hamiltonian perturbations. This means that these eigenstates are extremely sensitive to all the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 George Mihailescu , Steve Campbell , Karol Gietka

Single parameter estimation is known to benefit from extreme sensitivity to parameter changes in quantum critical systems. However, the simultaneous estimation of multiple parameters is generally limited due to the incompatibility arising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Giovanni Di Fresco , Bernardo Spagnolo , Davide Valenti , Angelo Carollo

The non-equilibrium dynamics of the critical behaviour of the Boson system undergoing the second order quantum phase transition is discussed. The analysis is carried out using the Keldysh technique of the non-equilibrium dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-30 Mikhail Vasin

We investigate a hybrid electro-optomechanical system that allows us to obtain controllable strong Kerr nonlinearities in the weak-coupling regime. We show that when the controllable electromechanical subsystem is close to its quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Xin-You Lü , Wei-Min Zhang , Sahel Ashhab , Ying Wu , Franco Nori

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

The main power of quantum sensors is achieved when the probe is composed of several particles. In this situation, quantum features such as entanglement contribute to enhancing the precision of quantum sensors beyond the capacity of…

We introduce a first-order quantum-phase-transition model, which exhibits giant sensitivity $\chi \propto N^2$ at the critical point. Exploiting this effect, we propose a quantum critical detector (QCD) to amplify weak input signals. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Li-Ping Yang , Zubin Jacob

Critical phenomena of quantum systems offer a promising strategy to improve measurement precision. So far, many criticality-enhanced quantum metrological schemes have been proposed by using the adiabatically evolved photonic states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Ken Chen , Jia-Hao Lv , Wen Ning , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

We consider quantum metrology with arbitrary prior knowledge of the parameter. We demonstrate that a single sensing two-level system can act as a virtual multi-level system that offers increased sensitivity in a Bayesian, single-shot,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 P. Sekatski , M. Skotiniotis , W. Dür

In the field of quantum metrology and sensing, a collection of quantum systems (e.g. spins) are used as a probe to estimate some physical parameter (e.g. magnetic field). It is usually assumed that there are no interactions between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Shane Dooley , Michael Hanks , Shojun Nakayama , William J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

Quantum phenomena offer the possibility of measuring physical quantities with precision beyond classical limits. However, current progress is constrained by scalability, environmental noise, and challenges in practical integration. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 George Mihailescu , Uesli Alushi , Roberto Di Candia , Simone Felicetti , Karol Gietka

The metrological limits of thermometry operated in nonequilibrium dynamical regimes are analyzed. We consider a finite-dimensional quantum system, employed as a quantum thermometer, in contact with a thermal bath inducing Markovian…

We show, via explicit computation on a constrained bosonic model, that the presence of subsystem symmetries can lead to a quantum phase transition (QPT) where the critical point exhibits an emergent enhanced symmetry. Such a transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-27 Anirudha Menon , Anwesha Chattopadhyay , K. Sengupta , Arnab Sen