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An experimental setup for testing quantum nonlocality of N qubits is proposed. This method is a generalization of the optical setup proposed by Banaszek and Wodkiewicz [1]. The quantum nonlocality of N qubits can be obtained through its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chunfeng Wu , Jing-Ling Chen , L. C. Kwek , C. H. Oh

Quantum operations that are perfectly admissible in non-relativistic quantum theory can enable signalling between spacelike separated regions when naively imported into quantum field theory (QFT). Prominent examples of such "impossible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Robin Simmons , Maria Papageorgiou , Marios Christodoulou , Časlav Brukner

We develop a theory of quadratic quantum measurements by a mesoscopic detector. It is shown that quadratic measurements should have non-trivial quantum information properties, providing, for instance, a simple way of entangling two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wenjin Mao , Dmitri V. Averin , Rusko Ruskov , Alexander N. Korotkov

The quantum trajectory sensing problem seeks quantum sensor states which enable the trajectories of incident particles to be distinguished using a single measurement. For an $n$-qubit sensor state to unambiguously discriminate a set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Zachary E. Chin , Isaac L. Chuang

Measurements provide a novel mechanism for generating the entanglement resource necessary for performing scalable quantum computation. Recently, we proposed a method for performing parity measurements in a coupled quantum dot system. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Avinash Kolli , Simon C. Benjamin , Brendon W. Lovett , Thomas M. Stace

We analyze fast interaction cycles in bipartite quantum systems, showing that the statistics in one of the parties (the detector) can be used to determine the two-point correlator of the observable which mediates the coupling in the other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Jose de Ramon , Luis J. Garay , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

Does the measurement of a quantum system necessarily break Lorentz invariance? We present a simple model of a detector that measures the spacetime localization of a relativistic particle in a Lorentz invariant manner. The detector does not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Donald Marolf , Carlo Rovelli

Counting statistics of charge transfers in a point contact interacting with an arbitrary quantum system is studied. The theory for the charge specific density matrix is developed, allowing the evaluation of the probability of the outcome of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Rammer , A. L. Shelankov , J. Wabnig

Single particle detection is described in a limited way by simple models of measurements in quantum field theory. We show that a general approach, using Kraus operators in spacetime constructed from natural combinations of fields, leads to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-28 Adam Bednorz

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

Quantum field theory is completely characterized by the field correlations between spacetime points. In turn, some of these can be accessed by locally coupling to the field simple quantum systems, a.k.a. particle detectors. In this work, we…

Contextuality is a foundational phenomenon underlying key differences between quantum theory and classical realistic descriptions of the world. Here we propose an experimental test which is capable of revealing contextuality in all qutrit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-23 Jayne Thompson , Robert Pisarczyk , Pawel Kurzynski , Dagomir Kaszlikowski

Half a century ago a local and (seemingly) causally consistent implementation of the projection postulate was formulated for local projectors in Quantum Field Theory (QFT) by utilising the basic property that spacelike local observables…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-23 Emma Albertini , Ian Jubb

Quantum metrology utilizes entanglement for improving the sensitivity of measurements. Up to now the focus has been on the measurement of just one out of two non-commuting observables. Here we demonstrate a laser interferometer that…

Quantum sensor networks promise precision advantages over classical and single-sensor strategies, in particular when the estimator is non-local. We address the problem of finding such estimators through a framework we connote spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Luís Bugalho , Yasser Omar , Damian Markham

The present paper is the companion of [1] in which we proposed a scheme that tries to derive the Quantum Field Theory (QFT) on Curved Spacetimes (CST) limit from background independent Quantum General Relativity (QGR). The constructions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Hanno Sahlmann , Thomas Thiemann

Quantum measurement of a solid-state qubit by a mesoscopic detector is of fundamental interest in quantum physics and an essential issue in quantum computing. In this work, by employing a unified quantum master equation approach constructed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xin-Qi Li , Wen-Kai Zhang , Ping Cui , Jiushu Shao , Zhongshui Ma , YiJing Yan

Quantum field theory (QFT) on non-stationary spacetimes is well understood from the side of the algebra of observables. The state space, however, is largely unexplored, due to the non-existence of distinguished states (vacuum, scattering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-25 Klaus Fredenhagen , Thomas-Paul Hack , Nicola Pinamonti

In this conference proceedings contribution, I describe work in progress concerning two problems in the measurement theory of quantum fields. First, it is proved that all local observables can be obtained from local measurement schemes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-01 Christopher J. Fewster

Quantum-matter theory (QMT), based on the Schr\"odinger or Dirac equations, is firmly established for both intra- and intermolecular interactions. However, there are two key issues with QMT. First, its applicability to large molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Reza Karimpour , Matteo Gori , Alexandre Tkatchenko