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Quantum metrology provides a route to overcome practical limits in sensing devices. It holds particular relevance to biology, where sensitivity and resolution constraints restrict applications both in fundamental biophysics and in medicine.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-05 Michael A. Taylor , Warwick P. Bowen

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 sensors represent a new generation of sensors with improved precision, accuracy, stability, and robustness to environmental effects compared to their classical predecessors. After decades of laboratory development, several types of…

Quantum phenomena are typically observable at length and time scales smaller than those of our everyday experience, often involving individual particles or excitations. The past few decades have seen a revolution in the ability to structure…

Quantum simulators, in which well controlled quantum systems are used to reproduce the dynamics of less understood ones, have the potential to explore physics that is inaccessible to modeling with classical computers. However, checking the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 C. Senko , J. Smith , P. Richerme , A. Lee , W. C. Campbell , C. Monroe

Quantum computing is a growing field where the information is processed by two-levels quantum states known as qubits. Current physical realizations of qubits require a careful calibration, composed by different experiments, due to noise and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Edoardo Pedicillo , Andrea Pasquale , Stefano Carrazza

Critical quantum metrology relies on the extreme sensitivity of a system's eigenstates near the critical point of a quantum phase transition to Hamiltonian perturbations. This means that these eigenstates are extremely sensitive to all the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 George Mihailescu , Steve Campbell , Karol Gietka

Quantum metrology is the use of genuinely quantum properties such as entanglement as a resource to outperform classical sensing strategies. Typically, entanglement is created by implementing gate operations or inducing many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-10 Atsuki Yoshinaga , Mamiko Tatsuta , Yuichiro Matsuzaki

Quantum sensing (QS) harnesses quantum phenomena to measure physical observables with extraordinary precision, sensitivity, and resolution. Despite significant advancements in quantum sensing, prevailing efforts have focused predominantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Anastashia Jebraeilli , Chenxu Liu , Keyi Yin , Erik W Lentz , Yufei Ding , Ang Li

Quantum metrology utilizes entanglement for improving the sensitivity of measurements. Up to now the focus has been on the measurement of just one out of two non-commuting observables. Here we demonstrate a laser interferometer that…

Pushing the boundaries of measurement precision is central for sensing and metrology, pursued by nonclassical resources such as squeezing, and non-Hermitian degeneracies with distinct spectral response. Their convergence, however, remains…

We present methods that can provide an exponential savings in the resources required to perform dynamic parameter estimation using quantum systems. The key idea is to merge classical compressive sensing techniques with quantum control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Easwar Magesan , Alexandre Cooper , Paola Cappellaro

Quantum scale estimation, as introduced and explored here, establishes the most precise framework for the estimation of scale parameters that is allowed by the laws of quantum mechanics. This addresses an important gap in quantum metrology,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-18 Jesús Rubio

Recently, there have been significant developments in entanglement-based quantum metrology. However, entanglement is fragile against experimental imperfections, and quantum sensing to beat the standard quantum limit in scaling has not yet…

We address the metrological problem of estimating collective stochastic properties imprinted on a network of quantum sensors. Canonical examples include center-of-mass quadrature fluctuations in a system of bosonic modes and correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Anthony J. Brady , Yu-Xin Wang , Victor V. Albert , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Quntao Zhuang

Quantum coherence is a fundamental property of quantum systems, separating quantum from classical physics. Recently, there has been significant interest in the characterization of quantum coherence as a resource, investigating how coherence…

Controlling and measuring the temperature in different devices and platforms that operate in the quantum regime is, without any doubt, essential for any potential application. In this review, we report the most recent theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-04 Mohammad Mehboudi , Anna Sanpera , Luis A. Correa

We consider quantum metrology with arbitrary prior knowledge of the parameter. We demonstrate that a single sensing two-level system can act as a virtual multi-level system that offers increased sensitivity in a Bayesian, single-shot,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 P. Sekatski , M. Skotiniotis , W. Dür

Continuously monitored quantum systems are emerging as promising platforms for quantum metrology, where a central challenge is to identify measurement strategies that optimally extract information about unknown parameters encoded in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Alejandro Vivas-Viaña , Carlos Sánchez Muñoz

The measurement of a spin-$\half$ is modeled by coupling it to an apparatus, that consists of an Ising magnetic dot coupled to a phonon bath. Features of quantum measurements are derived from the dynamical solution of the measurement,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Armen E. Allahverdyan , Roger Balian , Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen