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Multipartite entanglement tomography, namely the quantum Fisher information (QFI) calculated with respect to different collective operators, allows to fully characterize the phase diagram of the quantum Ising chain in a transverse field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Marco Gabbrielli , Luca Lepori , Luca Pezzè

We study the simultaneous estimation of multiple phases as a discretised model for the imaging of a phase object. We identify quantum probe states that provide an enhancement compared to the best quantum scheme for the estimation of each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Peter C. Humphreys , Marco Barbieri , Animesh Datta , Ian A. Walmsley

The quantum Fisher information for a two-mode, Gaussian product state in an interferometer subject to photon loss is studied. We obtain the quantum Cramer-Rao bound on the achievable precision in phase estimation using such states. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Noufal Jaseem , Anil Shaji

We develop a hybrid framework for quantum parameter estimation in the presence of nuisance parameters. In this Bayes-point scheme, the parameters of interest are treated as fixed non-random parameters while nuisance parameters are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Jianchao Zhang , Jun Suzuki

Gaussian quantum states and channels are pivotal across many branches of quantum science and their applications, including the processing and storage of quantum information, the investigation of thermodynamics in the quantum regime, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Alice P. G. Hall , Carlos H. S. Vieira , Jonas F. G. Santos

Relativistic quantum metrology provides an optimal strategy for the estimation of parameters encoded in quantum fields in flat and curved spacetime. These parameters usually correspond to physical quantities of interest such as proper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 Dominik Šafránek , Jan Kohlrus , David Edward Bruschi , Antony R. Lee , Ivette Fuentes

We introduce a quantum sensing protocol for detecting the parameters characterizing the phase space displacement by using a single trapped ion as a quantum probe. We show that thanks to the laser-induced coupling between the ion's internal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-13 Peter A. Ivanov , Nikolay V. Vitanov

We study the time-dependent quantum Fisher information (QFI) in an open quantum system satisfying the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad master equation. We also study the dynamics of the system from an effective non-Hermitian dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-12 Zain H. Saleem , Anil Shaji , Stephen K. Gray

We propose a technique for performing quantum state tomography of photonic polarization-encoded multi-qubit states. Our method uses a single rotating wave plate, a polarizing beam splitter and two photon-counting detectors per photon mode.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 Mohammadreza Mohammadi , Agata M. Branczyk , Daniel F. V. James

We use the quantum Fisher information (QFI) to diagnose a dynamical phase transition (DPT) in a closed quantum system, which is usually defined in terms of non-analytic behaviour of a time-averaged order parameter. Employing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Qingze Guan , Robert J. Lewis-Swan

The quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound sets a fundamental limit on the accuracy of unbiased parameter estimation in quantum systems, relating the uncertainty in determining a parameter to the inverse of the quantum Fisher information. We…

We show that the quantum Fisher information about any phase parameter encoded in a family of pure quantum states can be faithfully compressed into a single qubit, accompanied by a logarithmic amount of classical bits. When the phase is…

Phase imaging techniques extract the optical path-length information of a scene, whereas wavefront sensors provide the shape of an optical wavefront. Since these two applications have different technical requirements, they have developed…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-28 F. Soldevila , V. Durán , P. Clemente , J. Lancis , E. Tajahuerce

We address the estimation of the coupling constant of the Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian for a coupled qubit-oscillator system. We evaluate the quantum Fisher Information (QFI) for the system undergone the Jaynes-Cummings evolution,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Marco G. Genoni , Carmen Invernizzi

Within the quantum phase representation we derive Heisenberg limits, in closed form, for N00N states and two other classes of states that can perform better in terms of local performance metrics relevant for multiply-peaked distributions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Scott Roger Shepard , Frederick Ira Moxley , Jonathan P. Dowling

Understanding how well future cosmological experiments can reconstruct the mechanism that generated primordial inhomogeneities is key to assessing the extent to which cosmology can inform fundamental physics. In this work, we apply a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-23 Michał Piotrak , Thomas Colas , Ana Alonso-Serrano , Alessio Serafini

Developing a quantum light source that carries more than one bit per photon is pivotal for expanding quantum information applications. Characterizing a high-dimensional multiple-degree-of-freedom source at the single-photon level is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Dong Beom Kim , Xiye Hu , Alfred B. U'Ren , Karina Garay-Palmett , Virginia O. Lorenz

Quantum Fisher information (QFI) sets the ultimate precision of optical phase measurements and reveals multiphoton entanglement, but it is not accessible with conventional photodetection. We theoretically predict that a photodetector…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Evgenii Barts , Takahiro Morimoto , Naoto Nagaosa

The quantum Fisher information matrix (QFIM) is the cornerstone of multiparameter quantum metrology. In this work, we investigate multiparameter quantum estimation in baryon-antibaryon (B bar-B) pairs produced via the e+ e- -> J/psi -> B…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Elhabib Jaloum , Mohamed Amazioug

We find the optimal measurement for distinguishing between symmetric multi-mode phase-randomized coherent states. A motivation for this is that phase-randomized coherent states can be used for quantum communication, including quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Ioannis Petrongonas , Erika Andersson