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An analysis of quantum measurement is presented that relies on an information-theoretic description of quantum entanglement. In a consistent quantum information theory of entanglement, entropies (uncertainties) conditional on measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 N. J. Cerf , C. Adami

Non-Hermitian systems have attracted considerable interest over the last few decades due to their unique spectral and dynamical properties not encountered in Hermitian counterparts. An intensely debated question is whether non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Ievgen I. Arkhipov , Franco Nori , Şahin K. Özdemir

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

We review the introduction of likelihood functions and Fisher information in classical estimation theory, and we show how they can be defined in a very similar manner within quantum measurement theory. We show that the stochastic master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 Søren Gammelmark , Klaus Mølmer

We consider the problem of estimating an arbitrary dynamical parameter of an quantum open system in the input-output formalism. For irreducible Markov processes, we show that in the limit of large times the system-output state can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Catalin Catana , Luc Bouten , Madalin Guta

A framework for a quantum information theory is introduced that is based on the measure of quantum information associated with probability distribution predicted by quantum measuring of state. The entanglement between states of measured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yi-Xin Chen

Due to the absence of an external, classical time variable, the probabilistic predictions of covariant quantum theory are ambiguous when multiple measurements are considered. Here, we introduce an information theoretic framework to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 S. Jay Olson , Jonathan P. Dowling

Gaussian quantum channels are relevant operations in continuous variable systems. In general, given an arbitrary state, the action on it is well-known provided that the quantum channels are completely characterized. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Jonas F. G. Santos , Carlos H. S. Vieira , Wilder R. Cardoso

We apply the classical data processing inequality to quantum metrology to show that manipulating the classical information from a quantum measurement cannot aid in the estimation of parameters encoded in quantum states. We further derive a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Christopher Ferrie

Symmetry breaking underlies diverse phenomena from phase transitions in condensed matter to fundamental interactions in gauge theories. Despite many proposed indicators, a general quantification of symmetry breaking that is faithful,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-10 Shion Yamashika , Shimpei Endo , Hiroyasu Tajima

Several quantities of interest in quantum information, including entanglement and purity, are nonlinear functions of the density matrix and cannot, even in principle, correspond to proper quantum observables. Any method aimed to determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-25 Matteo G. A. Paris

Quantum Fisher information is the principal tool used to give the ultimate precision bound on the estimation of parameters for quantum channels. In this work, we present analytical expressions for the quantum Fisher information with three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Lorenzo M. Procopio

Quantifying measurement precision in quantum systems is vital for advancing quantum technologies such as sensing, communication, and computation. The quantum Fisher information (QFI) sets the ultimate precision bound in Hermitian systems;…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Javid Naikoo , Ravindra W. Chhajlany , Jan Kołodyński , Adam Miranowicz

We study the classical and quantum Fisher information for the Lieb-Liniger model. The Fisher information has been studied extensively when the parameter is inscribed on a quantum state by a unitary process, e.g., Mach-Zehnder or Ramsey…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Jae-Gyun Baak , Uwe R. Fischer

Quantum parameter estimation with Hermitian systems has been applied in various fields, but there are relatively few results concerning non-Hermitian systems. Here, we study the quantum parameter estimation for general non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Xinglei Yu , Chengjie Zhang

The dynamics of the quantum Fisher information of the parameters of the initial atomic state and atomic transition frequency is studied, in the framework of open quantum systems, for a static polarizable two-level atom coupled in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-19 Yao Jin , Hongwei Yu

We propose a new generalised formalism for estimating the quantum phase uncertainty of pure and mixed continuous-variable quantum states and compare this with the phase uncertainty given by the quantum Fisher information. In order to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Jaewoo Joo , Jacob A. Dunningham , Daniel K. L. Oi , Timothy P. Spiller

This paper explores as didactically as possible the fundamental principles of both classical and quantum metrology, focusing on the Cram\'er-Rao Bound and how it defines the maximum precision in parameter estimation, taking into account…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 Leonardo A. M. Souza

In conventional measurement, to reach the greatest accuracy of parameter estimation, all samples must be measured since each independent sample contains the same quantum Fisher information. In postselected metrology, postselection can…

Incompatibility of certain measurements -- impossibility of obtaining deterministic outcomes simultaneously -- is a well known property of quantum mechanics. This feature can be utilized in many contexts, ranging from Bell inequalities to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Martin Plesch , Matej Pivoluska