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We address estimation of temperature for a micromechanical oscillator lying arbitrarily close to its quantum ground state. Motivated by recent experiments, we assume that the oscillator is coupled to a probe qubit via Jaynes-Cummings…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Matteo Brunelli , Stefano Olivares , Matteo G. A. Paris

We discuss the possibility of defining an emergent local temperature in extended quantum many-body systems evolving out of equilibrium. For the most simple case of free-fermionic systems, we give an explicit formula for the effective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-06 M. Coppola , D. Karevski

Precise thermometry is of wide importance in science and technology in general and in quantum systems in particular. Here, we investigate fundamental precision limits for thermometry on cold quantum systems, taking into account constraints…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-02 Mathias R. Jørgensen , Patrick P. Potts , Matteo G. A. Paris , Jonatan B. Brask

We develop a general perturbative theory of finite-coupling quantum thermometry up to second order in probe-sample interaction. By assumption, the probe and sample are in thermal equilibrium, so the probe is described by the mean-force…

High-precision low-temperature thermometry is a challenge for experimental quantum physics and quantum sensing. Here we consider a thermometer modelled by a dynamically-controlled multilevel quantum probe in contact with a bath. Dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Victor Mukherjee , Analia Zwick , Arnab Ghosh , Xi Chen , Gershon Kurizki

Potential realization of a quantum thermometer operating in the nanokelvin regime, formed by a few-fermionic mixture confined in a one-dimensional harmonic trap, is proposed. Thermal states of the system are studied theoretically from the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-06-22 Marcin Płodzień , Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański , Tomasz Sowiński

We investigate the dephasing dynamics of a qubit as an effective mechanism for estimating the temperature of its surrounding environment for different symmetrizes. Our approach is fundamentally quantum, leveraging the qubit's susceptibility…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Anass Hminat , Abdallah Slaoui , Rachid Ahl Laamara , Mourad Telmini

We study the ultimate bounds on the estimation of temperature for an interacting quantum system. We consider two coupled bosonic modes that are assumed to be thermal and using quantum estimation theory establish the role the Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Steve Campbell , Mohammad Mehboudi , Gabriele De Chiara , Mauro Paternostro

Controlling and measuring the temperature in different devices and platforms that operate in the quantum regime is, without any doubt, essential for any potential application. In this review, we report the most recent theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-04 Mohammad Mehboudi , Anna Sanpera , Luis A. Correa

We introduce a classical algorithm to approximate the free energy of local, translation-invariant, one-dimensional quantum systems in the thermodynamic limit of infinite chain size. While the ground state problem (i.e., the free energy at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi , Samuel O. Scalet

Thermal equilibrium states are exponentially hard to distinguish at very low temperatures, making equilibrium quantum thermometry in this regime a formidable task. We present a thermometric scheme that circumvents this limitation, by using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Ivan Henao , Karen V. Hovhannisyan , Raam Uzdin

Thermometry is a fundamental parameter estimation problem which is crucial in the development process of natural sciences. One way to solve this problem is to the extensive used local thermometry theory, which makes use of the classical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Shoukang Chang , Wei Ye , Xuan Rao , Huan Zhang , Liqing Huang , Mengmeng Luo , Yuetao Chen , Qiang Ma , Shaoyan Gao

In this work we propose to simulate many-body thermodynamics of infinite-size quantum lattice models in one, two, and three dimensions, in terms of few-body models of only O(10) sites, which we coin as quantum entanglement simulators…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-23 Shi-Ju Ran , Bin Xi , Cheng Peng , Gang Su , Maciej Lewenstein

Quantum metrology studies the ultimate limit of precision in estimating a physical quantity if quantum strategies are exploited. Here we investigate the evolution of a two-level atom as a detector which interacts with a massless scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-28 Zehua Tian , Jieci Wang , Heng Fan , Jiliang Jing

Decoherence often happens in the quantum world. We try to utilize quantum dephasing to build an optimal thermometry. By calculating the Cram$\acute{e}$r-Rao bound, we prove that the Ramsey measurement is the optimal way to measure the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu , Anmin Wang

We investigate the fundamental and practical precision limits of thermometry in bosonic and fermionic environments by coupling an $N$-level probe to them and continuously monitoring it. Our findings show that the ultimate precision limit,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Mohammad Mehboudi , Florian Meier , Marcus Huber , Harry J. D. Miller

We present a quantum thermometry method utilizing an optomechanical system composed of an optical field coupled to a mechanical resonator for measuring the unknown temperature of a thermal bath. To achieve this, we connect a thermal bath to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Asghar Ullah , Ali Pedram , M. Tahir Naseem , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

Measurements of an object's temperature are important in many disciplines, from astronomy to engineering, as are estimates of an object's spatial configuration. We present the quantum optimal estimator for the temperature of a distant body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-27 Mark E. Pearce , Earl T. Campbell , Pieter Kok

This work is concerned with thermal quantum states of Hamiltonians on spin and fermionic lattice systems with short range interactions. We provide results leading to a local definition of temperature, thereby extending the notion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-04 M. Kliesch , C. Gogolin , M. J. Kastoryano , A. Riera , J. Eisert

It is "conventional wisdom" that the uncertainty of local temperature measurements on equilibrium systems diverges exponentially fast as their temperature $T$ drops to zero. In contrast, some exactly solvable models showcase a more benign…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Karen V. Hovhannisyan , Luis A. Correa