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Quantum metrology is a promising application of quantum technologies, enabling the precise measurement of weak external fields at a local scale. In typical quantum sensing protocols, a qubit interacts with an external field, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Hideaki Kawaguchi , Yuichiro Mori , Takahiko Satoh , Yuichiro Matsuzaki

Using a single quantum probe to sense other quantum objects offers distinct advantages but suffers from some limitations that may degrade the sensing precision severely, especially when the probe-target coupling is weak. Here we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Yi-Nan Fang , Xing Xiao , Chang-Pu Sun , Wen Yang , Nan Zhao

Ultrasensitive detection of the frequency, phase, and amplitude of radio frequency (RF) electric fields is central to a variety of important applications, including radio communication, cosmology, dark matter searches, and high-fidelity…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Hao Wu , Grant Mitts , Clayton Ho , Joshua Rabinowitz , Eric R. Hudson

Simultaneously estimating multiple parameters at the ultimate limit is a central challenge in quantum metrology, often hindered by inherent incompatibilities in optimal estimation strategies. At its most extreme, this incompatibility…

Certain quantum sensing protocols rely on qubits that are initialized, coherently driven in the presence of a stimulus to be measured, then read out. Most widely employed pulse sequences used to drive sensing qubits act locally in either…

Precision sensing, and in particular high precision magnetometry, is a central goal of research into quantum technologies. For magnetometers, often trade-offs exist between sensitivity, spatial resolution, and frequency range. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 I. Baumgart , J. -M. Cai , A. Retzker , M. B. Plenio , Ch. Wunderlich

Classical sensors for spectrum analysis are widely used but lack micro- or nanoscale spatial resolution. On the other hand, quantum sensors, capable of working with nanoscale precision, do not provide precise frequency resolution over a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Nicolas Staudenmaier , Simon Schmitt , Liam P. McGuinness , Fedor Jelezko

A key advantage of quantum metrology is the ability to surpass the standard quantum limit~(SQL) for measurement precision through the use of non-classical states. However, there is typically little to no improvement in precision with the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Hao Wu , Clayton Z. C. Ho , Grant D. Mitts , Joshua A. Rabinowitz , Eric R. Hudson

The accumulation of quantum phase in response to a signal is the central mechanism of quantum sensing, as such, loss of phase information presents a fundamental limitation. For this reason approaches to extend quantum coherence in the…

Precise spectroscopy of oscillating fields plays significant roles in many fields. Here, we propose an experimentally feasible scheme to measure the frequency of a fast-oscillating field using a single-qubit sensor. By invoking a stable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Yaoming Chu , Pengcheng Yang , Musang Gong , Min Yu , Baiyi Yu , Martin B. Plenio , Alex Retzker , Jianming Cai

We investigate the application of amplitude-shaped control pulses for enhancing the time and frequency resolution of multipulse quantum sensing sequences. Using the electronic spin of a single nitrogen vacancy center in diamond and up to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 J. Zopes , K. Sasaki , K. S. Cujia , J. M. Boss , K. Chang , T. F. Segawa , K. M. Itoh , C. L. Degen

Developing superior quantum sensing strategies ranging from ultra-high precision measurement to complex structural analysis is at the heart of quantum technologies. While strategies using quantum resources, such as entanglement among…

Quantum metrology, a cornerstone of quantum technologies, exploits entanglement and superposition to achieve higher precision than classical protocols in parameter estimation tasks. When combined with critical phenomena such as phase…

We introduce a general model for a network of quantum sensors, and we use this model to consider the question: when do correlations (quantum or classical) between quantum sensors enhance the precision with which the network can measure an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 T. J. Proctor , P. A. Knott , J. A. Dunningham

Quantum systems can be exquisite sensors thanks to their sensitivity to external perturbations. This same characteristic also makes them fragile to external noise. Quantum control can tackle the challenge of protecting quantum sensors from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 F. Poggiali , P. Cappellaro , N. Fabbri

Quantum systems are powerful detectors with wide-ranging applications from scanning probe microscopy of materials to biomedical imaging. Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, for instance, can be operated as qubits for sensing of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Christopher I. Timms , Michael H. Kolodrubetz

Quantum entanglement, in the form of spin squeezing, is known to improve the sensitivity of atomic sensors to static or slowly varying fields. Sensing transient events presents a distinct challenge, requires different analysis tools, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Julia Amoros-Binefa

Quantum computing and quantum sensing represent two distinct frontiers of quantum information science. In this work, we harness quantum computing to solve a fundamental and practically important sensing problem: the detection of weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Richard R. Allen , Francisco Machado , Isaac L. Chuang , Hsin-Yuan Huang , Soonwon Choi

High-resolution sensing plays a significant role in scientific research and industrial production, but the practical implementation is constrained by the physical mechanisms of the sensors. To address the critical limitation, we propose a…

Quantum sensors based on single Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) defects in diamond are state-of-the-art tools for nano-scale magnetometry with precision scaling inversely with total measurement time $\sigma_{B} \propto 1/T$ (Heisenberg scaling)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-21 Graciana Puentes , Gerald Waldherr , Philipp Neumann , Jörg Wrachtrup