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We investigate the simultaneous estimation of the intensity and the orientation of a magnetic field by the multi-parameter quantum Fisher information matrix. A general expression is achieved for the simultaneous estimation precision of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu

It is shown that the maximal phase sensitivity of a two-path interferometer with high-intensity coherent light and squeezed vacuum in the input ports can be achieved by photon-number-resolving detection of only a small number of photons in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Jun-Yi Wu , Norifumi Toda , Holger F. Hofmann

We analyze the problem of quantum-limited estimation of a stochastically varying phase of a continuous beam (rather than a pulse) of the electromagnetic field. We consider both non-adaptive and adaptive measurements, and both dyne detection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. W. Berry , H. M. Wiseman

In this work, we present a lower bound on the quantum Fisher information (QFI) which is efficiently computable on near-term quantum devices. This bound itself is of interest, as we show that it satisfies the canonical criteria of a QFI…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 Akira Sone , M. Cerezo , Jacob L. Beckey , Patrick J. Coles

The quantum Fisher information matrix (QFIM) is central to multiparameter quantum metrology, dictating the attainable sensitivity via the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound. In this work, we investigate the ultimate precision limits for…

Phase estimation in quantum interferometry is a major scenario where the quantum advantage is significantly revealed. Recently, the optimal finite-dimensional probe states (OFPSs) for phase estimation in two-mode quantum interferometry have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Jin-Feng Qin , Jing Liu

Quantum light is described not only by a quantum state but also by the shape of the electromagnetic modes on which the state is defined. Optical precision measurements often estimate a ``mode parameter'' that determines properties such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-27 Manuel Gessner , Nicolas Treps , Claude Fabre

Filtering is an important technique in quantum computing used for isolating or enhancing some specific states of quantum many-body systems. In this paper, we analyze the performance of filters based on the quantum phase estimation (QPE)…

The problem of recovering a one-dimensional signal from its Fourier transform magnitude, called Fourier phase retrieval, is ill-posed in most cases. We consider the closely-related problem of recovering a signal from its phaseless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Tamir Bendory , Yonina C. Eldar , Nicolas Boumal

The spatial mode is an essential component of an electromagnetic field description, yet it is challenging to characterize it for optical fields with low average photon number, such as in a squeezed vacuum. We present a method for…

We investigate how relative phase information, encoded by a single qubit $H\,\varphi\,H$ gate sequence, is reflected in the quantum Fisher information (QFI) under noisy dynamics. Within a collision model framework, algorithmically prepared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 S. Elham Mousavigharalari , Deniz Türkpençe

State preparation via postselected weak measurement in three wave mixing process is studied. Assuming the signal input mode prepared in a vacuum state, coherent state or squeezed vacuum state, separately, while the idler input prepared in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Qiang Hu , Taximaiti Yusufu , Yusuf Turek

We study the implementation of quantum phase measurement in a superconducting circuit, where two Josephson phase qubits are coupled to the photon field inside a resonator. We show that the relative phase of the superposition of two Fock…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 H. T. Ng , Franco Nori

Phase-insensitive optical amplifiers uniformly amplify each quadrature of an input field and are of both fundamental and technological importance. We find the quantum limit on the precision of estimating the gain of a quantum-limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Ranjith Nair , Guo Yao Tham , Mile Gu

Information about a classical parameter encoded in a quantum state can only decrease if the state undergoes a non-unitary evolution, arising from the interaction with an environment. However, instantaneous control unitaries may be used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Alexander Predko , Francesco Albarelli , Alessio Serafini

Distributed aperture telescopes are a well-established approach for boosting resolution in astronomical imaging. However, theoretical limits on quantitative imaging precision, and the fundamentally best possible beam-combining and detection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Aqil Sajjad , Michael R Grace , Saikat Guha

The phase resolution of interferometers is limited by the so-called Heisenberg limit, which states that the optimum phase sensitivity is inversely proportional to the number of interfering particles N, a 1/sqrt{N} improvement over the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Uys , P. Meystre

We present a comprehensive framework for quantum state tomography (QST) of time-bin qudits sent through a fiber. Starting from basic assumptions, we define a positive-operator valued measure (POVM) which is then applied to the quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-02 Artur Czerwinski , Karolina Sedziak-Kacprowicz , Piotr Kolenderski

Quantum-enhanced sensing is commonly benchmarked using the quantum Fisher information (QFI), often interpreted as a direct indicator of achievable precision. However, this quantity acquires operational meaning only within a fully specified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Zdeněk Hradil , Jaroslav Řeháček

We introduce a quantifier of phase-space complexity for discrete-variable (DV) quantum systems. Motivated by a recent framework developed for continuous-variable systems, we construct a complexity measure of quantum states based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Siting Tang , Shunlong Luo , Matteo G. A. Paris