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Achieving high-frequency spectral resolution with quantum sensors, while crucial in fields ranging from physical to biological sciences, is challenging due to their finite coherence time. Here, we introduce a novel protocol that achieves…

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Quantum metrology has been making amazing progress in the past decades. It is always in researchers' interest to search for new optimal states that improve parameter estimation. In this paper, we point out a connection between the code's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Zhuoran Bao , Daniel F. V. James

Quantum metrology is the science that aims to achieve precision measurements by making use of quantum principles. Attribute to the well-developed techniques of manipulating and detecting cold atoms, cold atomic systems provide an excellent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Jiahao Huang , Shuyuan Wu , Honghua Zhong , Chaohong Lee

Quantum metrology has many important applications in science and technology, ranging from frequency spectroscopy to gravitational wave detection. Quantum mechanics imposes a fundamental limit on measurement precision, called the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Sisi Zhou , Mengzhen Zhang , John Preskill , Liang Jiang

Quantum sensing employs quantum resources of a sensor to attain a smaller estimation error of physical quantities than the limit constrained by classical physics. To measure a quantum reservoir, which is significant in decoherence control,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 Wei Wu , Zhen Peng , Si-Yuan Bai , Jun-Hong An

We study a system consisting of a superconducting flux qubit strongly coupled to a microwave cavity. The fundamental cavity mode is externally driven and the response is investigated in the weak nonlinear regime. We find that near the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 Eyal Buks , Chunqing Deng , Jean-Luc F. X. Orgazzi , Martin Otto , Adrian Lupascu

Continuously monitored quantum systems are emerging as promising platforms for quantum metrology, where a central challenge is to identify measurement strategies that optimally extract information about unknown parameters encoded in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Alejandro Vivas-Viaña , Carlos Sánchez Muñoz

The quantum statistical fluctuations of the electromagnetic field establish a limit, known as the shot-noise limit, on the sensitivity of optical measurements performed with classical technologies. However, quantum technologies are not…

We propose a quantum sensing protocol for coupled qubit-oscillator systems that surpasses the standard quantum limit by exploiting a geometric phase for dark matter searches. Instead of letting the cavity evolve freely under a weak dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-02 Xiaolin Ma , Jie Sheng

Second order quantum phase transitions, with well-known features such as long-range entanglement, symmetry breaking, and gap closing, exhibit quantum enhancement for sensing at criticality. However, it is unclear which of these features are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Saubhik Sarkar , Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Abhijeet Alase , Abolfazl Bayat

Quantum sensing takes advantage of well controlled quantum systems for performing measurements with high sensitivity and precision. We have implemented a concept for quantum sensing with arbitrary frequency resolution, independent of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 J. M. Boss , K. S. Cujia , J. Zopes , C. L. Degen

Typically, the aim of quantum metrology is to sense target fields with high precision utilizing quantum properties. Unlike the typical aim, in this paper, we use quantum properties for adding a new functionality to quantum sensors. More…

Quantum metrology overcomes standard precision limits and plays a central role in science and technology. Practically it is vulnerable to imperfections such as decoherence. Here, we demonstrate quantum metrology for noisy channels such that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Kunkun Wang , Xiaoping Wang , Xiang Zhan , Zhihao Bian , Jian Li , Barry C. Sanders , Peng Xue

Continuous monitoring of open quantum-optical systems offers a promising route towards quantum-enhanced estimation precision. In such continuous-measurement-based sensing protocols, the ultimate precision limit is dictated, through the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Cheng Zhang , Mauro Cirio , Xin-Qi Li , Pengfei Liang

In this work quantum metrology techniques are applied to the imaging of objects with a non-uniform refractive spatial profile. A sensible improvement on the classical accuracy is shown to be found when the "Twin Beam State" (TWB) is used.…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-21 Giuseppe Ortolano , Ivano Ruo Berchera , Enrico Predazzi

State of the art quantum sensing experiments targeting frequency measurements or frequency addressing of nuclear spins require to drive the probe system at the targeted frequency. In addition, there is a substantial advantage to perform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Nati Aharon , Ilai Schwartz , Alex Retzker

Unconventional properties of non-Hermitian systems, such as the existence of exceptional points, have recently been suggested as a resource for sensing. The impact of noise and utility in quantum regimes however remains unclear. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-18 Hoi-Kwan Lau , Aashish A. Clerk

The laws of quantum physics endow superior performance and security for information processing: quantum sensing harnesses nonclassical resources to enable measurement precision unmatched by classical sensing, whereas quantum cryptography…

Critical quantum metrology exploits the hypersensitivity of quantum systems near phase transitions to achieve enhanced precision in parameter estimation. While single-parameter estimation near critical points is well established, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Luca Previdi , Yilun Xu , Qiongyi He , Matteo G. A. Paris

We investigate the advantage of coherent superposition of two different coded channels in quantum metrology. In a continuous variable system, we show that the Heisenberg limit $1/N$ can be beaten by the coherent superposition without the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu , An Min Wang