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We present a new scheme for teleporting a quantum state between two parties whose local reference frames are misaligned by the action of a finite symmetry group. Unlike other proposals, our scheme requires the same amount of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Dominic Verdon , Jamie Vicary

Decoherence is detrimental to quantum key distribution (QKD) over large distances. One of the proposed solutions is to use quantum repeaters, which divide the total distance between the users into smaller segments to minimise the effects of…

Permitting a more precise measurement to physical quantities than the classical limit by using quantum resources, quantum metrology holds a promise in developing many revolutionary technologies. However, the noise-induced decoherence forces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-03 Si-Yuan Bai , Jun-Hong An

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

We develop a quantum metrological framework for resonant nanophotonic sensors based on subwavelength Fabry--Perot slit cavities. Building on classical Fisher-information analyses of resonant transmission sensors, we model parameter encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 J. Sumaya-Martinez

Predicting the outcomes of quantum measurements is a cornerstone of quantum information theory and a key resource for quantum technologies. Here, we introduce a comprehensive framework for quantifying the predictability of measurements on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Dennis I. Martínez-Moreno , Miguel Castillo-Celeita , Diego G. Bussandri

The impact of measurement imperfections on quantum metrology protocols has not been approached in a systematic manner so far. In this work, we tackle this issue by generalising firstly the notion of quantum Fisher information to account for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Yink Loong Len , Tuvia Gefen , Alex Retzker , Jan Kołodyński

The quantum Fisher information (QFI) bounds the sensitivity of a quantum measurement, heralding the conditions for quantum advantages when compared with classical strategies. Here, we calculate analytical expressions for the QFI of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Jasper Kranias , Guillaume Thekkadath , Khabat Heshami , Aaron Z. Goldberg

This dissertation investigates relative entropies, also called generalized divergences, and how they can be used to characterize information-theoretic tasks in quantum information theory. The main goal is to further refine characterizations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Felix Leditzky

The discrepancy between theory and experiment severely limits the development of quantum key distribution (QKD). Reference-frame-independent (RFI) protocol has been proposed to avoid alignment of the reference frame. However, multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Zhenhua Li , Tianqi Dou , Jipeng Wang , Zhongqi Sun , Fen Zhou , Yanxin Han , Yuqing Huang , Hongwei Liu , Haiqiang Ma

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 propose a quantum metrology protocol based on a two-step joint evolution of the probe system and an ancillary qubit and quantum measurement. With a proper initial state of the ancillary qubit and an optimized evolution time, the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 Peng Chen , Jun Jing

Naive attempts to put together relativity and quantum measurements lead to signaling between space-like separated regions. In QFT, these are known as impossible measurements. We show that the same problem arises in non-relativistic quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Nicolas Gisin , Flavio Del Santo

Reference-frame-independent measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (RFI-MDI-QKD) is a novel protocol which eliminates all possible attacks on detector side and necessity of reference-frame alignment in source sides.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Feng-Yu Lu , Zhen-Qiang Yin , Guan-Jie Fan-Yuan , Rong Wang , Hang Liu , Shuang Wang , Wei Chen , De-Yong He

In general, a quantum measurement yields an undetermined answer and alters the system to be consistent with the measurement result. This process maps multiple initial states into a single state and thus cannot be reversed. This has…

We investigate quantum repeater protocols based upon atomic qubit-entanglement distribution through optical coherent-state communication. Various measurement schemes for an optical mode entangled with two spatially separated atomic qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 Peter van Loock , Norbert Lütkenhaus , W. J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

We propose a Quantum Federated Autoencoder for Anomaly Detection, a framework that leverages quantum federated learning for efficient, secure, and distributed processing in IoT networks. By harnessing quantum autoencoders for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Devashish Chaudhary , Sutharshan Rajasegarar , Shiva Raj Pokhrel

Reference-frame-independent measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (RFI-MDI-QKD) eliminates detector side-channel attacks and avoids reference-frame calibration. While its feasibility has been widely demonstrated, existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Xin Liu , Zhicheng Luo , Kaibiao Qin , Jiawang Liu , Zhenrong Zhang , Kejin Wei

Without actively aligning the reference frames, the reference-frame-independent quantum key distribution (RFI-QKD) can generate secure keys even when the reference frames drift slowly. Here, we propose a new scheme on the decoy-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-15 Jian-Rong Zhu , Chun-Mei Zhang , Guang-Can Guo , Qin Wang

The observable spacetime can be viewed as worldline coincidences (events) between a particle system and the observers of an extended (material) reference frame (ERF). Particle positions are then operationally well defined with respect to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Eduardo O. Dias