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We investigate the fundamental and practical precision limits of thermometry in bosonic and fermionic environments by coupling an $N$-level probe to them and continuously monitoring it. Our findings show that the ultimate precision limit,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Mohammad Mehboudi , Florian Meier , Marcus Huber , Harry J. D. Miller

Exceptional points (EPs) are special spectral degeneracies of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians governing the dynamics of open systems. At the EP two or more eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenstates coalesce. Recently, it has been proposed…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-19 Yu-Hung Lai , Yu-Kun Lu , Myoung-Gyun Suh , Kerry Vahala

Pushing the boundaries of measurement precision is central for sensing and metrology, pursued by nonclassical resources such as squeezing, and non-Hermitian degeneracies with distinct spectral response. Their convergence, however, remains…

In many-body quantum systems, the quantum Fisher information an observer can obtain is susceptible to decoherence. Consequently, quantum enhanced metrology, such as Heisenberg scaling, cannot usually be achieved. We show, via two distinct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Le Hu , Shengshi Pang , Andrew Jordan

We investigate the sensing capacity of non-equilibrium dynamics in quantum systems exhibiting Bloch oscillations. By focusing on the resource efficiency of the probe, quantified by quantum Fisher information, we find different scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Hassan Manshouri , Moslem Zarei , Mehdi Abdi , Sougato Bose , Abolfazl Bayat

We analyze the scaling of quantum Fisher information with the number of system particles in the limit of large number of particles, as a function of the number of parties interacting with each other, for encoding Hamiltonians having…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Aparajita Bhattacharyya , Debarupa Saha , Ujjwal Sen

Sensors play a crucial role in advanced apparatuses and it is persistently pursued to improve their sensitivities. Recently, the singularity of a non-Hermitian system, known as the exceptional point (EP), has drawn much attention for this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-04 Yao-Dong Hu , Yi-Pu Wang , Rui-Chang Shen , Zi-Qi Wang , Wei-Jiang Wu , J. Q. You

We revisit a scenario of continuous quantum error detection proposed by Ahn, Doherty and Landahl [Phys. Rev. A 65, 042301 (2002)] and construct optimal filters for tracking accumulative errors. These filters turn out to be of a canonical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ramon van Handel , Hideo Mabuchi

Exceptional point degeneracies (EPD) of linear non-Hermitian systems have been recently utilized for hypersensitive sensing. This proposal exploits the sublinear response that the degenerate frequencies experience once the system is…

Bosonic systems, particularly in quantum optics and atomic physics, are leading platforms for achieving quantum enhanced precision in parameter estimation. By exploiting properties such as mode and particle entanglement, it is possible to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Astghik Saharyan , Eloi Descamps , Arne Keller , Pérola Milman

Stark systems in which a linear gradient field is applied across a many-body system have recently been proposed for quantum sensing. Here, we explore sensing capacity of Stark probes, in both single-particle and many-body interacting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Rozhin Yousefjani , Xingjian He , Angelo Carollo , Abolfazl Bayat

We propose a scheme for obtaining highly-sensitive oscillators in a coupled-resonator system with an exceptional point of degeneracy (EPD) and a small instability. The oscillator with the exceptional degeneracy is realized by using two…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Alireza Nikzamir , Filippo Capolino

We propose a novel hybrid high-order method (HHO) to approximate singularly perturbed fourth-order PDEs on domains with a possibly curved boundary. The two key ideas in devising the method are the use of a Nitsche-type boundary penalty…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Zhaonan Dong , Alexandre Ern

We present the experimental demonstration of the occurrence of exceptional points of degeneracy (EPDs) in a single resonator by introducing a linear time-periodic variation of one of its components, in contrast to EPDs in parity time…

Quantum sensors based on critical many-body systems are known to exhibit enhanced sensing capability. Such enhancements typically scale algebraically with the probe size. Going beyond algebraic advantage and reaching exponential scaling has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Saubhik Sarkar , Abolfazl Bayat , Sougato Bose , Roopayan Ghosh

The exceptional points of non-Hermitian systems, where $n$ different energy eigenstates merge into an identical one, have many intriguing properties that have no counterparts in Hermitian systems. In particular, the $\epsilon^{1/n}$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Chong Chen , Liang Jin , Ren-Bao Liu

By exploiting the exotic quantum states of a probe, it is possible to realize efficient sensors that are attractive for practical metrology applications and fundamental studies. Similar to other quantum technologies, quantum sensing is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 W. Wang , Z. -J. Chen , X. Liu , W. Cai , Y. Ma , X. Mu , L. Hu , Y. Xu , H. Wang , Y. P. Song , X. -B. Zou , C. -L. Zou , L. Sun

We address the issue of precisely estimating small parameters encoded in a general linear transformation of the modes of a bosonic quantum field. Such Bogoliubov transformations frequently appear in the context of quantum optics. We provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Nicolai Friis , Michalis Skotiniotis , Ivette Fuentes , Wolfgang Dür

We propose an optimal method exploiting second order quantum phase transitions to perform high precision measurements of the control parameter at criticality. Our approach accesses the high fidelity susceptibility via the measurement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Luca Pezzè , Andreas Trenkwalder , Marco Fattori

The responsivity of perturbation sensing can be effectively enhanced by using higher-order exceptional points (HOEPs) due to their nonlinear response to frequency perturbations. However, experimental realization can be difficult due to the…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-02 Todd Darcie , J. Stewart Aitchison