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Precision metrology underpins scientific and technological advancements. Quantum metrology offers a pathway to surpass classical sensing limits by leveraging quantum states and measurement strategies. However, measuring multiple…

We propose a measurement-based quantum metrology protocol in a composite model, where the probe system (a spin ensemble) is coupled to an ancillary two-level system (qubit) with a general Heisenberg XXZ interaction. With an optimized and…

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Entanglement-enhanced quantum metrology explores the utilization of quantum entanglement to enhance measurement precision. When particles in a probe are prepared into a quantum entangled state, they collectively accumulate information about…

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We consider the effective dynamics obtained by double-passing a far-detuned laser probe through a large atomic spin system. The net result of the atom-field interaction is a type of coherent positive feedback that amplifies the values of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-08 Bradley A. Chase , JM Geremia

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 enhanced sensing provides a powerful tool for the precise measurement of physical parameters that is applicable in many areas of science and technology. The achievable gain in sensitivity is largely limited by the influence of noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Yu Liu , Zijun Shu , Martin B. Plenio , Jianming Cai

Super-Heisenberg scaling, which scales as $N^{-\beta}$ with $\beta>1$ in terms of the number of particles $N$ or $T^{-\beta}$ in terms of the evolution time $T$, is better than Heisenberg scaling in quantum metrology. It has been proven…

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We propose a self-validating scheme to calculate the unbiased responses of quantum many-body systems to external fields of arbibraty strength at any temperature. By switching on a specified field to a thermal pure quantum state of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-30 Hiroyuki Endo , Chisa Hotta , Akira Shimizu

We investigate quantum-enhanced metrology in a triple point criticality and discover that quantum criticality can not always enhance measuring precision. We have developed suitable adiabatic evolution protocols approaching a final point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Jia-Ming Cheng , Yong-Chang Zhang , Xiang-Fa Zhou , Zheng-Wei Zhou

High-precision sensors that exploit uniquely quantum phenomena have been shown to surpass the standard quantum limit of measurement precision. However, in the general scenario where multiple parameters are simultaneously encoded in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Berihu Teklu , Victor Montenegro

We propose a measurement setup reaching Heisenberg scaling precision for the estimation of any distributed parameter $\varphi$ (not necessarily a phase) encoded into a generic $M$-port linear network composed only of passive elements. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-23 Giovanni Gramegna , Danilo Triggiani , Paolo Facchi , Frank A. Narducci , Vincenzo Tamma

Improving the precision of measurements is a significant scientific challenge. The challenge is twofold: first, overcoming noise that limits the precision given a fixed amount of a resource, N, and second, improving the scaling of precision…

A distributed sensing protocol uses a network of local sensing nodes to estimate a global feature of the network, such as a weighted average of locally detectable parameters. In the noiseless case, continuous-variable multipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-28 Quntao Zhuang , John Preskill , Liang Jiang

Nonlinear processes with individual quanta beyond bilinear interactions are essential for quantum technology with bosonic systems. Diverse coherent splitting and merging of quanta in them already manifest in the estimation of their…

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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

Quantum-enhanced metrology surpasses classical metrology by improving estimation precision scaling with a resource $N$ (e.g., particle number or energy) from $1/\sqrt{N}$ to $1/N$. Through the use of nonlinear effects, Roy and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Noah Lordi , John Drew Wilson , Murray J. Holland , Joshua Combes

We propose a high-precision phase estimation scheme in a hybrid interferometer by synergistically combining a Kerr nonlinear phase shifter and multi-photon subtraction operations. Using a coherent state and a vacuum state as input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Lifen Guo , Qingqian Kang , Zekun Zhao , Jifeng Sun , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Xin Su , Liyun Hu

We investigate multiparameter quantum estimation protocols based on measurement-after-interaction (MAI) strategies, in which the probe state undergoes an additional evolution prior to linear measurements. As we show in our study, this extra…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Jiajie Guo , Shuheng Liu , Matteo Fadel , Qiongyi He

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

Hyperentanglement --- simultaneous entanglement between multiple degrees of freedom of two or more systems --- has been used to enhance quantum information tasks such as quantum communication and photonic quantum computing. Here we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 S. P. Walborn , A. H. Pimentel , L. Davidovich , R. L. de Matos Filho