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Quantum Fisher information is a central quantity in quantum metrology. We discuss an alternative representation of quantum Fisher information for unitary parametrization processes. The highlight of this representation is that all…

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We consider an antiferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate in a traverse magnetic field with a fixed macroscopic magnetization. The system exhibits two different critical behaviors corresponding to transitions from polar to…

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Quantum learning encounters fundamental challenges when estimating non-linear properties, owing to the inherent linearity of quantum mechanics. Although recent advances in single-copy randomized measurement protocols have achieved optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Zhenyu Du , Yifan Tang , Andreas Elben , Ingo Roth , Jens Eisert , Zhenhuan Liu

We introduce a systematic framework to construct nonlocal observables with extensive quantum Fisher information (QFI) density in stabilizer codes. The construction maps stabilizer generators to dual Ising spins whose correlators equal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Arnau Lira-Solanilla , Sreemayee Aditya , Xhek Turkeshi , Silvia Pappalardi

In this paper, we propose a quantum amplitude estimation method that uses a modified Grover operator and quadratically improves the estimation accuracy in the ideal case, as in the conventional one using the standard Grover operator. Under…

We propose a new protocol for on-line quantum system estimation on the basis of continuous weak-measurements with the help of compressive sensing and the optimization algorithm. By directly measuring the state of the probe system, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 S. Cong , K. Li , S. Harraz , 1 Y. Tang , J. Yang

For a given quantum state used in sensing, the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound (QCRB) sets a fundamental limit on the precision achievable by an unbiased estimator of an unknown parameter, determined by the inverse of the quantum Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Andrew Kolmer Forbes , Marco A. Rodríguez-García , Ivan H. Deutsch

Optimal strategies for local quantum metrology -- including the preparation of optimal probe states, implementation of optimal control and measurement strategies, are well established. However, for distributed quantum metrology, where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Zhiyao Hu , Allen Zang , Jianwei Wang , Tian Zhong , Haidong Yuan , Liang Jiang , Zain H. Saleem

Quantum estimation theory provides optimal observations for various estimation problems for unknown parameters in the state of the system under investigation. However, the theory has been developed under the assumption that every observable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Hotta , M. Ozawa

In this paper, we simultaneously determine the optimal sensor precision and the observer gain, which achieves the specified accuracy in the state estimates. Along with the unknown observer gain, the formulation parameterizes the scaling of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Vedang M. Deshpande , Raktim Bhattacharya

We examine metrological scenarios where the parameter of interest is encoded onto a quantum state through the action of a noisy quantum gate and investigate the ultimate bound to precision by analyzing the behaviour of the Quantum Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Giovanni Ragazzi , Simone Cavazzoni , Paolo Bordone , Matteo G. A. Paris

With an ever-expanding ecosystem of noisy and intermediate-scale quantum devices, exploring their possible applications is a rapidly growing field of quantum information science. In this work, we demonstrate that variational quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-16 Johannes Jakob Meyer , Johannes Borregaard , Jens Eisert

Quantum sensors are used for precision timekeeping, field sensing, and quantum communication. Comparisons among a distributed network of these sensors are capable of, for example, synchronizing clocks at different locations. The performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Benjamin K. Malia , Yunfan Wu , Julián Martínez-Rincón , Mark A. Kasevich

Quantum sensing is commonly described as a constrained optimization problem: maximize the information gained about an unknown quantity using a limited number of particles. Important sensors including gravitational-wave interferometers and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Morgan W. Mitchell

We address metrological protocols for the estimation of the intensity and the orientation of a magnetic field, and show that quantum-enhanced precision may be achieved by probing the field with an arbitrary spin at thermal equilibrium. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Filippo Troiani , Matteo G. A. Paris

We identify symmetric Dicke states as the optimal quantum probes for distributed sensing of wave-like dark-matter fields. Within an ensemble-averaged quantum-metrological framework that incorporates the field's random phases and finite…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-18 Ping He , Jing Shu , Bin Xu , Jincheng Xu

It is critically important to analyze the achievability of quantum advantage under realistic imperfections. In this work, we show that quantum advantage in distributed sensing can be achieved with noisy quantum networks which can only…

We consider an instance of black-box quantum metrology in the Gaussian framework, where we aim to estimate the amount of squeezing applied on an input probe, without previous knowledge on the phase of the applied squeezing. By taking the…

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

Studies of quantum metrology have shown that the use of many-body entangled states can lead to an enhancement in sensitivity when compared to product states. In this paper, we quantify the metrological advantage of entanglement in a setting…