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There has been debate around applicability of exceptional points (EP) for quantum sensing. To resolve this, we first explore how to experimentally implement the nonhermitian non-diagonalizable Hamiltonians, that exhibit EPs, in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 Chetan Waghela , Shubhrangshu Dasgupta

Exceptional points (EPs) exhibit strongly enhanced spectral responses and are therefore promising candidates for sensing applications. Whether these non-Hermitian degeneracies provide a genuine advantage in the quantum regime has been the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Jan Wiersig , Stefan Rotter

Distinct from closed quantum systems, non-Hermitian system can have exceptional points (EPs) where both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. Recently, it has been proposed and demonstrated that EPs can enhance the performance of sensors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Mengzhen Zhang , William Sweeney , Chia Wei Hsu , Lan Yang , A. D. Stone , Liang Jiang

In recent years, significant progress has been made in utilizing the divergence of spectrum response rate at the exceptional point (EP) for sensing in classical systems, while the use and characterization of quantum EPs for sensing have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Chun-Hui Liu , Fu Li , Shengwang Du , Jianming Wen , Lan Yang , Chuanwei Zhang

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

Exceptional points (EPs) are singularities in the parameter space of a non-Hermitian system where eigenenergies and eigenstates coincide. They hold promise for enhancing sensing applications, but this is limited by the divergence of shot…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-07 Xu Zheng , Y. D. Chong

Exceptional points (EPs) have been suggested for ultra-sensitive sensing because the eigenfrequency splitting grows as the nth-root of a perturbation, suggesting divergent responsivity. In ideal linear devices, however, this responsivity…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-25 Todd Darcie , J. Stewart Aitchison

By using the quantum Fisher information (QFI), we address the process of \textit{single}-parameter estimation in the presence of bosonic as well as fermionic environments and protection of information against the noise. In particular, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Hossein Rangani Jahromi , Mansoureh Amini , Mohammad Ghanaatian

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

We develop a quantum metrological framework for resonant nanophotonic sensors based on subwavelength Fabry--Perot slit cavities. Building on classical Fisher-information analyses of resonant transmission sensors, we model parameter encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 J. Sumaya-Martinez

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

We present the experimental measurement, on a quantum processor, of a series of polynomial lower bounds that converge to the quantum Fisher information (QFI), a fundamental quantity for certifying multipartite entanglement that is useful…

We consider the problem of determining the spatial phase profile of a single-mode electromagnetic field. Our attention is on input states that are a statistical mixture of displaced and squeezed number states, a superset of Gaussian states.…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-09 Jacob Trzaska , Amit Ashok

A major obstacle to attain the fundamental precision limit of the phase estimation in an interferometry is the identification and implementation of the optimal measurement. Here we demonstrate that this can be accomplished by the use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Wei Zhong , Yixiao Huang , Xiaoguang Wang , Shi-Liang Zhu

Exceptional-point (EP) sensors are characterized by a square-root resonant frequency bifurcation in response to an external perturbation. This has lead numerous suggestions for using these systems for sensing applications. However, there is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Hudson A. Loughlin , Vivishek Sudhir

We propose a scheme for parameter estimation with the steady states of non-Hermitian spin chains. The parameters to be estimated are encoded in the system via the external magnetic field that imposed on the first site of the chain. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Huiqin Zhang , Jiasen Jin

Quantum-enhanced sensing is commonly benchmarked using the quantum Fisher information (QFI), often interpreted as a direct indicator of achievable precision. However, this quantity acquires operational meaning only within a fully specified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Zdeněk Hradil , Jaroslav Řeháček

For a given quantum state used in sensing, the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound (QCRB) sets a fundamental limit on the precision achievable by an unbiased estimator of an unknown parameter, determined by the inverse of the quantum Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Andrew Kolmer Forbes , Marco A. Rodríguez-García , Ivan H. Deutsch

We report on the existence of exceptional points (EPs) in single-resonance autoionization and provide analytical expressions for their positions in parameter space, in terms of the Fano asymmetry parameter. We additionally propose a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 G. Mouloudakis , P. Lambropoulos

Exceptional points (EPs) are special singularities of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. At an EP, two or more eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenstates coalesce. Recently, EP-based optical gyroscope near an EP was extensively investigated to…

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