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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

To mitigate dissipative effects from environmental interactions and efficiently stabilize quantum states, time-optimal control has emerged as an effective strategy for open quantum systems. This paper extends the framework by incorporating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Yunyan Lee , Ian R. Petersen , Daoyi Dong

Here we concerned with quantum key distribution - a way to establish common cryptographic key between several parties. The work proposes a combination between quantum key distribution and systematic polar coding (an error correction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Georgi Bebrov

We consider bipartite systems as versatile probes for the estimation of transformations acting locally on one of the subsystems. We investigate what resources are required for the probes to offer a guaranteed level of metrological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Alessandro Farace , Antonella De Pasquale , Gerardo Adesso , Vittorio Giovannetti

Distributed quantum protocols rely on classical feedforward information to process measurement outcomes, but heterogeneous hardware and uncertain local timing can make the causal order of measurements ambiguous when inferred solely from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Jakob Kaltoft Søndergaard , René Bødker Christensen , Petar Popovski

Quantum machine learning models have the potential to offer speedups and better predictive accuracy compared to their classical counterparts. However, these quantum algorithms, like their classical counterparts, have been shown to also be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-27 Maurice Weber , Nana Liu , Bo Li , Ce Zhang , Zhikuan Zhao

The unpredictability of quantum physics gives rise to intrinsic randomness. In an adversarial scenario, any additional degrees of freedom must be attributed to an eavesdropper with correlations to the measurement set-up. The true randomness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Fionnuala Curran

The performance of quantum classifiers is typically analyzed through global state distinguishability or the trainability of variational models. This study investigates how much class information remains accessible under locality-constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Ait Haddou Marwan

In this paper, we derive key-rate expressions for different quantum key distribution protocols. Our key-rate equations utilize multiple channel statistics, including those gathered from mismatched measurement bases - i.e., when Alice and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-16 Walter O. Krawec

Various forms of optimality for quantum observables described as normalized positive operator valued measures (POVMs) are studied in this paper. We give characterizations for observables that determine the values of the measured quantity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-28 Erkka Haapasalo , Juha-Pekka Pellonpaa

We propose an effective approach to rapid estimation of the energy spectrum of quantum systems with the use of machine learning (ML) algorithm. In the ML approach (back propagation), the wavefunction data known from experiments is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Gennadiy Burlak

Quantum technologies exploit entanglement to enhance various tasks beyond their classical limits including computation, communication and measurements. Quantum metrology aims to increase the precision of a measured quantity that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Bálint Koczor , Suguru Endo , Tyson Jones , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Simon C. Benjamin

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

In measurement-based quantum computing an algorithm is performed by measurements on highly-entangled resource states. To date, several implementations were demonstrated, all of them assuming perfect noise-free environments. Here we consider…

We argue that measurement data in quantum physics can be rigorously interpreted only as a result of a statistical, macroscopic process, taking into account the indistinguishable character of identical particles. Quantum determinism is in…

General Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Patrick Navez , Henni Ouerdane

We show how weak non-linearities can be used in a device-independent quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol using generalized two-mode Schr\"odinger cat states. The QKD protocol is therefore shown to be secure against collective attacks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Curtis J. Broadbent , Kevin Marshall , Christian Weedbrook , John C. Howell

The device-independent approach to physics is one where conclusions are drawn directly from the observed correlations between measurement outcomes. In quantum information, this approach allows one to make strong statements about the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Pei-Sheng Lin , Denis Rosset , Yanbao Zhang , Jean-Daniel Bancal , Yeong-Cherng Liang

The wide-ranging adoption of quantum technologies requires practical, high-performance advances in our ability to maintain quantum coherence while facing the challenge of state collapse under measurement. Here we use techniques from control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Sandeep Mavadia , Virginia Frey , Jarrah Sastrawan , Stephen Dona , Michael J. Biercuk

Quantum measurements are inherently noisy, hindering reliable entanglement detection and limiting the scalability of quantum technologies. While error mitigation and correction strategies exist, they often impose prohibitive resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Mahmoud Mahdian , Ali Babapour-Azar , Zahra Mousavi , Rashed Khanjani-Shiraz

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