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A central feature of quantum metrology is the possibility of Heisenberg scaling, a quadratic improvement over the limits of classical statistics. This scaling, however, is notoriously fragile to noise. While for some noise types it can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Giulio Chiribella , Xiaobin Zhao

We study optimal quantum sensing of multiple physical parameters using repeated measurements. In this scenario, the Fisher information framework sets the fundamental limits on sensing performance, yet the optimal states and corresponding…

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We propose a dynamic quantum sensing scheme by using a quantum many-spin system composed of a central spin interacting with many surrounding spins. Starting from a generalized Ising ring model, we investigate the error propagation formula…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Wenkui Ding , Yanxia Liu , Zhenyu Zheng , Shu Chen

Phase transitions represent a compelling tool for classical and quantum sensing applications. It has been demonstrated that quantum sensors can in principle saturate the Heisenberg scaling, the ultimate precision bound allowed by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-31 Louis Garbe , Obinna Abah , Simone Felicetti , Ricardo Puebla

Quantum Fisher Information (QFI) is a ubiquitous quantity with applications ranging from quantum metrology and resource theories to condensed matter physics. In equilibrium local quantum many-body systems, the QFI of a subsystem with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Florent Ferro , Maurizio Fagotti

Current metrological bounds typically assume full control over all particles that are involved in the protocol. Relaxing this assumption we study metrological performance when only limited control is available. As an example, we measure a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Benedikt Tratzmiller , Qiong Chen , Ilai Schwartz , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

The fundamental metrological limits of temperature sensing in open quantum systems remain largely unresolved, particularly regarding the role of non-Gaussian quantum resources. In this letter, we establish analytic bounds on the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Pritam Chattopadhyay

Super-Heisenberg scaling, which scales as $N^{-\beta}$ with $\beta>1$ in terms of the number of particles $N$ or $T^{-\beta}$ in terms of the evolution time $T$, is better than Heisenberg scaling in quantum metrology. It has been proven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu

In the scenario of the probe-ancilla interaction, we propose a quantum metrology protocol by the unconditional measurement on the ancillary qubit after an optimized period of joint evolution from product state. Its key element is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Peng Chen , Jun Jing

Continuous monitoring of driven-dissipative quantum optical systems is a crucial element in the implementation of quantum metrology, providing essential strategies for achieving highly precise measurements beyond the classical limit. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Dayou Yang , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Displacement sensing is a fundamental task in metrology. However, the development of quantum-enhanced sensors that fully utilize the available degrees of freedom in many-body quantum systems remains an outstanding challenge. We propose…

We propose an experimentally accessible scheme to determine lower bounds on the quantum Fisher information (QFI), which ascertains multipartite entanglement or usefulness for quantum metrology. The scheme is based on comparing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-14 Florian Fröwis , Pavel Sekatski , Wolfgang Dür

Quantum effects in metrology can in principle enhance measurement precision from the so-called standard quantum limit to the Heisenberg Limit. Further advancements in quantum metrology largely rely on innovative metrology protocols that can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Zhixing Zou , Jiangbin Gong , Weitao Chen

Coherence time is an important resource to generate enhancement in quantum metrology. In this work, based on continuous-variable models, we propose a new design of the signal-probe Hamiltonian which generates an exponential enhancement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Li Sun , Xi He , Chenglong You , Chufan Lv , Bo Li , Seth Lloyd , Xiaoting Wang

Quantum metrology promises precision beyond classical limits, yet environmental noise typically degrades the quantum resources required for such enhancement. In this work, we investigate frequency estimation in noisy continuous-variable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Ayan Patra , Manju , Aditi Sen De , Matteo G. A. Paris

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

Entangled systems with large quantum Fisher information (QFI) can be used to outperform the standard quantum limit of the separable systems in quantum metrology. However, the interaction between the system and the environments inevitably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 Guofeng Zhang , Hanjie Zhu

Bosonic systems, such as photons and ultracold atoms, have played a central role in demonstrating quantum-enhanced sensing. Quantum entanglement, through squeezed and GHZ states, enables sensing beyond classical limits. However, such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Jieqiu Shao , Diego A. R. Dalvit , Lukasz Cincio , Bharath Hebbe Madhusudhana

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

Resolving frequencies in a time-dependent field is classically limited by the measurement bandwidth. Using tools from quantum metrology and quantum control may overcome this limit, yet the full advantage afforded by entanglement so far…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Anirban Dey , Sara Mouradian , Cosmo Lupo , Zixin Huang