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Noise affects the performance of quantum technologies, hence the importance of elaborating operative figures of merit that can capture its impact in exact terms. In quantum metrology, the introduction of the Fisher information measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Francesco Albarelli , Ilaria Gianani , Marco G. Genoni , Marco Barbieri

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

We consider the estimation of parameters encoded in the measurement record of a continuously monitored quantum system in the jump unraveling, corresponding to a single-shot scenario, where information is continuously gathered. Here, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Marco Radaelli , Joseph A. Smiga , Gabriel T. Landi , Felix C. Binder

Recent theoretical and experimental work has shown that the quantum Fisher information associated with estimating the separation between two optical point sources remains finite at small separations, effectively opening new routes to…

Quantum estimation theory provides optimal observations for various estimation problems for unknown parameters in the state of the system under investigation. However, the theory has been developed under the assumption that every observable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Hotta , M. Ozawa

The Fisher information matrix is a quantity of fundamental importance for information geometry and asymptotic statistics. In practice, it is widely used to quickly estimate the expected information available in a data set and guide…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-06 William R. Coulton , Benjamin D. Wandelt

A Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) optimization framework for near-field sensing (NISE) with continuous-aperture arrays (CAPAs) is proposed. In contrast to conventional spatially discrete arrays (SPDAs), CAPAs emit electromagnetic (EM) probing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Hao Jiang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

The estimation of more than one parameter in quantum mechanics is a fundamental problem with relevant practical applications. In fact, the ultimate limits in the achievable estimation precision are ultimately linked with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Sholeh Razavian , Matteo G. A. Paris , Marco G. Genoni

Multiparameter quantum metrology plays a fundamental role in uncovering and exploiting the distinctive features of quantum systems. In this work, we propose an effective and experimentally feasible scheme to significantly enhance the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Adnan Naimy , Abdallah Slaoui , Abderrahim Lakhfif , Rachid Ahl Laamara

We study gravimetry with bosonic trapped atoms in the presence of random spatial inhomogeneity. The errors resulting from a random, shot-to-shot fluctuating spatial inhomogeneity are quantum non-Markovian. We show that in a system with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Bharath Hebbe Madhusudhana , Andrew Harter , Avadh Saxena

We determine the bound to the maximum achievable sensitivity in the estimation of a scalar parameter from the information contained in an optical image in the presence of quantum noise. This limit, based on the Cramer-Rao bound, is valid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Vincent Delaubert , Nicolas Treps , Claude Fabre , Hans A. Bachor , Philippe Réfrégier

Quantum-enhanced (i.e., higher performance by quantum effects than any classical methods) mean value estimation of observables is a fundamental task in various quantum technologies; in particular, it is an essential subroutine in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Kaito Wada , Kazuma Fukuchi , Naoki Yamamoto

In this study, the hybrid Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) is developed for target localization, to establish the sensitivity of the estimation mean-square error (MSE) to the level of phase synchronization mismatch in coherent Multiple-Input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-30 Hana Godrich , Alexander M. Haimovich , H. Vincent Poor

Efficiently estimating the quantum Fisher information (QFI) is pivotal in quantum information science but remains an outstanding challenge for large systems due to its high nonlinearity. In this Letter, we tackle this long-standing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Da-Jian Zhang , D. M. Tong

Being infinite dimensional, non-parametric information geometry has long faced an "intractability barrier" due to the fact that the Fisher-Rao metric is now a functional incurring difficulties in defining its inverse. This paper introduces…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-08 Bing Cheng , Howell Tong

This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of the deterministic and stochastic Cram\'er-Rao Bounds (CRB) for semi-blind channel estimation in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We derive and analyze mathematically…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Xue Zhang , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Reconstructing a signal from squared linear (rank-one quadratic) measurements is a challenging problem with important applications in optics and imaging, where it is known as phase retrieval. This paper proposes two new phase retrieval…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Cheng Qian , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos , Kejun Huang , Lei Huang , H. C. So

This paper presents a distributed estimator for a deterministic parametric physical field sensed by a homogeneous sensor network and develops a new transformed expression for the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) on the variance of distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Salvatore Talarico , Natalia A. Schmid , Marwan Alkhweldi , Matthew C. Valenti

This is a tutorial aimed at illustrating some recent developments in quantum parameter estimation beyond the Cram\`er-Rao bound, as well as their applications in quantum metrology. Our starting point is the observation that there are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-06 Luigi Seveso , Matteo G. A. Paris

Estimating the quantum Fisher information (QFI) is a crucial yet challenging task with widespread applications across quantum science and technologies. The recently proposed Krylov shadow tomography (KST) opens a new avenue for this task by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Yuan-Hao Wang , Da-Jian Zhang