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Quantum phenomena offer the possibility of measuring physical quantities with precision beyond classical limits. However, current progress is constrained by scalability, environmental noise, and challenges in practical integration. This…

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In order to provide a guaranteed precision and a more accurate judgement about the true value of the Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound and its scaling behavior, an upper bound (equivalently a lower bound on the quantum Fisher information) for precision…

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Quantum simulation is a central application of near-term quantum devices, pursued in both analog and digital architectures. A key challenge for both paradigms is the effect of imperfections and noise on predictive power. In this work, we…

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We analyze quantum metrological protocols, where the sensing system is linearly coupled to a bosonic environment, by performing a Markovian embedding of the problem based on pseudomode formalism. This allows us to effectively model the…

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Although measuring the deterministic waveform of a weak classical force is a well-studied problem, estimating a random waveform, such as the spectral density of a stochastic signal field, is much less well-understood despite it being a…

Measurement noise is a major source of noise in quantum metrology. Here, we explore preprocessing protocols that apply quantum controls to the quantum sensor state prior to the final noisy measurement (but after the unknown parameter has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Sisi Zhou , Spyridon Michalakis , Tuvia Gefen

Quantum fluctuations yield inevitable noises in quantum detection. We derive an upper bound of signal to noise ratio for arbitrary quantum detection described by trace-class operators with discrete spectra. The bound is independent of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Ryota Katsube , Masahiro Hotta , Koji Yamaguchi

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in understating the limitations imposed by quantum noise in precision measurements and devising techniques to reduce it. The attention is currently turning to the simultaneously estimation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Luca Pezzè , Augusto Smerzi

The field of quantum metrology seeks to apply quantum techniques and/or resources to classical sensing approaches with the goal of enhancing the precision in the estimation of a parameter beyond what can be achieved with classical…

Quantum sensors are now universally acknowledged as one of the most promising near-term quantum technologies. The traditional formulation of quantum sensing introduces a concrete bound on ultimate precision through the so-called local…

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We address the characterization of classical fractional random noise via quantum probes. In particular, we focus on estimation and discrimination problems involving the fractal dimension of the trajectories of a system subject to fractional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Matteo G. A. Paris

The topic of quantum noise has become extremely timely due to the rise of quantum information physics and the resulting interchange of ideas between the condensed matter and AMO/quantum optics communities. This review gives a pedagogical…

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Quantum metrology utilizes quantum effects to reach higher precision measurements of physical quantities compared with their classical counterparts. However the ubiquitous decoherence obstructs its application. Recently, non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Kai Bai , Hong-Gang Luo , Wenxian Zhang , Meng Xiao

We consider realistic measurement systems, where measurements are accompanied by decoherence processes. The aim of this work is the construction of methods and algorithms for precise quantum measurements with fidelity close to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Yu. I. Bogdanov , B. I. Bantysh , N. A. Bogdanova , A. B. Kvasnyy , V. F. Lukichev

The estimation of parameters characterizing dynamical processes is central to science and technology. The estimation error changes with the number N of resources employed in the experiment (which could quantify, for instance, the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-10 B. M. Escher , R. L. de Matos Filho , L. Davidovich

A usual assumption in quantum estimation is that the unknown parameter labels the possible states of the system, while it influences neither the sample space of outcomes nor the measurement aimed at extracting information on the parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Luigi Seveso , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Matteo G. A. Paris

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…

Industrial, metrological, and medical applications provide a strong technological pull for advanced nanoscale sensors exploiting the unique sensitivity of quantum coherent systems to their environments. Essential to the functionality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 V. M. Frey , S. Mavadia , L. M. Norris , W. de Ferranti , D. Lucarelli , L. Viola , M. J. Biercuk

Quantum sensing, using quantum properties of sensors, can enhance resolution, precision, and sensitivity of imaging, spectroscopy, and detection. An intriguing question is: Can the quantum nature (quantumness) of sensors and targets be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Ping Wang , Chong Chen , Renbao Liu

Quantum error correction allows to actively correct errors occurring in a quantum computation when the noise is weak enough. To make this error correction competitive information about the specific noise is required. Traditionally, this…

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