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Manifesting across all time, mass and length scales, nonlinearities lie at the core of numerous physical phenomena. Next-generation quantum applications, such as quantum sensing, require the combination of nonlinearity with non-classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Shivangi Dhiman , K. Rubenbauer , T. Luschmann , A. Marx , A. Metelmann , H. Huebl

For multilevel spin systems, robustness of the quantum mechanical (QM) violation of macrorealism (MR) with respect to coarse grained measurements is investigated using three different necessary conditions of MR, namely, the Leggett-Garg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Shiladitya Mal , Debarshi Das , Dipankar Home

Quantum noise limits the sensitivity of interferometric measurements. It is generally admitted that it leads to an ultimate sensitivity, the ``standard quantum limit''. Using a semi-classical analysis of quantum noise, we show that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-01 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

The laws of quantum mechanics place fundamental limits on the accuracy of measurements and therefore on the estimation of unknown parameters of a quantum system. In this work, we prove lower bounds on the size of confidence regions reported…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-23 Michael Walter , Joseph M. Renes

We introduce the notion of fault-tolerant quantum metrology to overcome noise beyond our control -- associated with sensing the parameter, by reducing the noise in operations under our control -- associated with preparing and measuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-29 Theodoros Kapourniotis , Animesh Datta

Quantum coherence, a basic feature of quantum mechanics residing in superpositions of quantum states, is a resource for quantum information processing. Coherence emerges in a fundamentally different way for nonidentical and identical…

We demonstrate a 36$\times$36 gate electrode crossbar that supports 648 narrow-channel field effect transistors (FET) for gate-defined quantum dots, with a quadratic increase in quantum dot count upon a linear increase in control lines. The…

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We investigate the phase enhancement of quantum states subject to non-linear phase shifts. The optimal phase estimation of even entangled coherent states (ECSs) is shown to be better than that of NOON states and of odd ECS states with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-25 Jaewoo Joo , Kimin Park , Hyunseok Jeong , William J. Munro , Kae Nemoto , Timothy P. Spiller

We investigate the role of quantum coherence and higher harmonics resulting from multiple-path interference in nonlinear thermoelectricity in a two-terminal triangular triple-dot Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer. We quantify the trade-off…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Jayasmita Behera , Salil Bedkihal , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Malay Bandyopadhyay

We establish general limits on how precise a parameter, e.g. frequency or the strength of a magnetic field, can be estimated with the aid of full and fast quantum control. We consider uncorrelated noisy evolutions of N qubits and show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Pavel Sekatski , Michalis Skotiniotis , Janek Kołodyński , Wolfgang Dür

The spectrum of magnetic edge states and their transport properties in the presence of a perpendicular non-homogeneous magnetic field in a quantum wire formed by a parabolic confining potential are obtained. Systems are studied where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-03 S. M. Badalyan , F. M. Peeters

Quantum metric, a probe to spacetime of the Hilbert space, has been found measurable in the nonlinear electronic transport thus has attracted tremendous interest. However, without comparing with mechanisms tied to disorder, it is still…

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We consider a nanomechanical analogue of a nonlinear interferometer, consisting of two parallel, flexural nanomechanical resonators, each with an intrinsic Duffing nonlinearity and with a switchable beamsplitter-like coupling between them.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. J. Woolley , G. J. Milburn , Carlton M. Caves

We address continuous weak linear quantum measurement and argue that it is best understood in terms of statistics of the outcomes of the linear detectors measuring a quantum system, for example, a qubit. We mostly concentrate on a setup…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-14 Hongduo Wei , Yuli V. Nazarov

In quantum computation, information is processed by gates that must coherently couple separate qubits. In many systems the qubits are naturally coupled, but such an always-on interaction limits the algorithms that may be implemented.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Morteza Erfani , David G. Hasko , Alessandro Rossi , Wan Sik Cho , Jung-Bum Choi

Quantum metrology explores quantum effects to improve the measurement accuracy of some physical quantities beyond the classical limit. However, due to the interaction between the system and the environment, the decoherence can significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Cheng-Ge Liu , Cong-Wei Lu , Na-Na Zhang , Qing Ai

In quantum metrology, one of the major applications of quantum technologies, the ultimate precision of estimating an unknown parameter is often stated in terms of the Cram\'er-Rao bound. Yet, the latter is no longer guaranteed to carry an…

We investigate quantum thermometry using a single-qubit probe embedded in a non-Markovian environment, employing the numerically exact hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) to overcome the limitations of Born-Markov approximations.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Qing-Shou Tan , Yang Liu , Xulin Liu , Hao Chen , Xing Xiao , Wei Wu

Phase measurement constitutes a key task in many fields of science, both in the classical and quantum regime. The higher precision of such measurement offers significant advances, and can also be utilised to achieve finer estimates for…

Quantum error mitigation is a promising route to achieving quantum utility, and potentially quantum advantage in the near-term. Many state-of-the-art error mitigation schemes use knowledge of the errors in the quantum processor, which opens…