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It is a major goal in quantum thermometry to reach a $1/N$ scaling of thermometric precision known as Heisenberg scaling but is still in its infancy to date. The main obstacle is that the resources typically required are highly entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-11 Da-Jian Zhang , D. M. Tong

Quantum metrology aims to enhance measurement precision beyond the classical limit by leveraging quantum resources. Unlike multi-parameter dynamic quantum metrology, many questions regarding multiparameter quantum metrology at thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Zhu Cao

Quantum thermometry leveraging quantum sensors is investigated with an emphasis on fundamental precision bounds derived from quantum estimation theory. The proposed sensing platform consists of two dissimilar qubits coupled via capacitor,…

On a quantum superconducting processor we observe partial and infinite-temperature thermalization induced by a sequence of repeated quantum projective measurements, interspersed by a unitary (Hamiltonian) evolution. Specifically, on a qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Alessandro Santini , Andrea Solfanelli , Stefano Gherardini , Guido Giachetti

We present a quantum thermometric protocol for the estimation of multiple temperatures within the collisional model framework. Employing the formalism of multiparameter quantum metrology, we develop a systematic strategy to estimate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Srijon Ghosh , Sagnik Chakraborty , Rosario Lo Franco

We study the ultimate bounds on the estimation of temperature for an interacting quantum system. We consider two coupled bosonic modes that are assumed to be thermal and using quantum estimation theory establish the role the Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Steve Campbell , Mohammad Mehboudi , Gabriele De Chiara , Mauro Paternostro

Precise thermometry is of wide importance in science and technology in general and in quantum systems in particular. Here, we investigate fundamental precision limits for thermometry on cold quantum systems, taking into account constraints…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-02 Mathias R. Jørgensen , Patrick P. Potts , Matteo G. A. Paris , Jonatan B. Brask

We describe the design and performance of a series of fast, precise current sensing noise thermometers. The thermometers have been fabricated with a range of resistances from 1.290 $\Omega$ down to 0.2 m$\mathrm{\Omega}$. This results in…

The unknown temperature of a sample may be estimated with minimal disturbance by putting it in thermal contact with an individual quantum probe. If the interaction time is sufficiently long so that the probe thermalizes, the temperature can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Luis A. Correa , Mohammad Mehboudi , Gerardo Adesso , Anna Sanpera

Measuring local temperatures of open systems out of equilibrium is emerging as a novel approach to study the local thermodynamic properties of nanosystems. An operational protocol has been proposed to determine the local temperature by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Xiangzhong Zeng , Lyuzhou Ye , Daochi Zhang , Rui-Xue Xu , Xiao Zheng , Massimiliano Di Ventra

A classical thermometer typically works by exchanging energy with the system being measured until it comes to equilibrium, at which point the readout is related to the final energy state of the thermometer. A recent paper noted that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 W. K. Tham , H. Ferretti , A. V. Sadashivan , A. M. Steinberg

Quantum metrology offers significant improvements in several quantum technologies. In this work, we propose a Gaussian quantum metrology protocol assisted by initial position-momentum correlations (PM). We employ a correlated Gaussian wave…

Quantum thermometry refers to the study of measuring ultra-low temperatures in quantum systems. The precision of such a quantum thermometer is limited by the degree to which temperature can be estimated by quantum measurements. More…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-15 Sebastian Deffner

A theoretical proposal that Coulomb-coupled quantum dots can be used as quantum probes to determine the temperature of a sample (i.e., an electronic reservoir) is proposed. Through the regulation of the positive or negative voltage bias in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Yanchao Zhang , Jincan Chen

In bosonic quantum metrology, the estimate of a loss parameter is typically performed by means of pure states, such as coherent, squeezed or entangled states, while mixed thermal probes are discarded for their inferior performance. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Gaetana Spedalieri , Cosmo Lupo , Samuel L. Braunstein , Stefano Pirandola

We consider the impact that temporal correlations in the measurement statistics can have on the achievable precision in a sequential metrological protocol. In this setting, and for a single quantum probe, we establish that it is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Eoin O'Connor , Steve Campbell , Gabriel T. Landi

We present a method for the measurement of a temperature differential across a single quantum dot that has transmission resonances that are separated in energy by much more than the thermal energy. We determine numerically that the method…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-10 E. A. Hoffmann , N. Nakpathomkun , A. I. Persson , H. A. Nilsson , L. Samuelson , H. Linke

Squeezed light can exponentially increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of dispersive qubit readout, especially using a combination of injected external squeezing (IES) and intracavity squeezing (ICS). We further investigate whether IES…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu

We assess precision thermometry for an arbitrary single quantum system. For a $d$-dimensional harmonic system we show that the gap sets a single temperature that can be optimally estimated. Furthermore, we establish a simple linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Steve Campbell , Marco G. Genoni , Sebastian Deffner

Quantum sensors outperform their classical counterparts in their estimation precision, given the same amount of resources. So far, quantum-enhanced sensitivity has been achieved by exploiting the superposition principle. This enhancement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Victor Montenegro , Gareth Siôn Jones , Sougato Bose , Abolfazl Bayat