English
Related papers

Related papers: Improving quantum metrology protocols with program…

200 papers

A genuine feature of projective quantum measurements is that they inevitably alter the mean energy of the observed system if the measured quantity does not commute with the Hamiltonian. Compared to the classical case, Jacobs proved that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-10 Kay Brandner , Michael Bauer , Michael T. Schmid , Udo Seifert

Conventional methods of quantum simulation involve trade-offs that limit their applicability to specific contexts where their use is optimal. In particular, the interaction picture simulation has been found to provide substantial asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Abhishek Rajput , Alessandro Roggero , Nathan Wiebe

We study quantum measurement with preselection and postselection, and derive the precise expressions of the measurement results without any restriction on the coupling strength between the system and the measuring device. For a qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-18 Xuanmin Zhu , Yuxiang Zhang , Shengshi Pang , Chang Qiao , Quanhui Liu , Shengjun Wu

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

Precise estimation of physical parameters underpins both scientific discovery and technological development. A central goal of quantum metrology and sensing is to exploit quantum resources like entanglement to devise optimal strategies for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Zhao-Yi Zhou , Da-Jian Zhang

Quantum metrology utilizes entanglement for improving the sensitivity of measurements. Up to now the focus has been on the measurement of just one out of two non-commuting observables. Here we demonstrate a laser interferometer that…

Extending optical nonlinearity into the extremely weak light regime is at the heart of quantum optics, since it enables the efficient generation of photonic entanglement and implementation of photonic quantum logic gate. Here, we…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Biao Xu , Gen-Sheng Ye , Yue Chang , Tao Shi , Lin Li

Deterministically tailoring optical Fock states beyond the single-photon level is crucial for boson sampling, loss-tolerant photonic qubits, and quantum-enhanced sensing, however has yet remained elusive. Here, we report an…

Linear optics is a promising candidate to enable the construction of quantum computers. A number of quantum protocols gates based on linear optics have been demonstrated. However, it is well-known that these gates are non-deterministic and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuta Okubo , Xiang-Bin Wang , Yun-Kun Jiang , Seiichiro Tani , Akihisa Tomita

The Heisenberg scaling is an ultimate precision limit of parameter estimation allowed by the principles of quantum mechanics, with no counterpart in the classical realm, and has been a long-pursued goal in quantum metrology. It has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Jingyi Fan , Shengshi Pang

The realization of quantum networks that exploit multiqubit entanglement opens avenues for transformative applications in the realm of quantum communication. In the paper, we present a set of heralded deterministic protocols designed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Fang-Fang Du , Xin-Shan Du , Zhuo-Ya Bai , Qiu-Lin Tan

We consider stochastic systems of interacting particles or agents, with dynamics determined by an interaction kernel which only depends on pairwise distances. We study the problem of inferring this interaction kernel from observations of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Fei Lu , Mauro Maggioni , Sui Tang

Amidst the array of quantum machine learning algorithms, the quantum kernel method has emerged as a focal point, primarily owing to its compatibility with noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices and its promise to achieve quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Shahram Dehdashti , Prayag Tiwari , Kareem H. El Safty , Peter Bruza , Janis Notzel

One of the main problems that optical quantum computing has to overcome is the efficient construction of two-photon gates. Theoretically these gates can be realized using Kerr-nonlinearities, but the techniques involved are experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-15 Pål Sundsøy , Egil Fjeldberg

Quantum metrology is the use of genuinely quantum properties such as entanglement as a resource to outperform classical sensing strategies. Typically, entanglement is created by implementing gate operations or inducing many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-10 Atsuki Yoshinaga , Mamiko Tatsuta , Yuichiro Matsuzaki

The strong non-linearity plays a significant role in physics, particularly, in designing novel quantum sources of light and matter as well as in quantum chemistry or quantum biology. In simple systems, the photon-photon interaction can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Mihai A. Macovei

Linear optics with photon counting is a prominent candidate for practical quantum computing. The protocol by Knill, Laflamme, and Milburn [Nature 409, 46 (2001)] explicitly demonstrates that efficient scalable quantum computing with single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pieter Kok , W. J. Munro , Kae Nemoto , T. C. Ralph , Jonathan P. Dowling , G. J. Milburn

We present a scheme for the deterministic generation of entangled photon pairs in a superconducting resonator array. The resonators form a Jaynes-Cummings lattice via the coupling to superconducting qubits, and the Kerr-like nonlinearity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Y. Hu , L. Tian

It has been suggested that both quantum superpositions and nonlinear interactions are important resources for quantum metrology. However, to date the different roles that these two resources play in the precision enhancement are not well…

We demonstrate the advantages of randomization in coherent quantum dynamical control. For systems which are either time-varying or require decoupling cycles involving a large number of operations, we find that simple randomized protocols…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lea F. Santos , Lorenza Viola