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This thesis is a compilation of research in relativistic quantum information theory, and research in quantum reference frames. The research in the former category provides a fundamental construction of quantum information theory of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-18 Matthew C Palmer

Estimation of unknown qubit elementary gates and alignment of reference frames are formally the same problem. Using quantum states made out of $N$ qubits, we show that the theoretical precision limit for both problems, which behaves as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Bagan , M. Baig , R. Munoz-Tapia

An unknown quantum state cannot be copied on demand and broadcast freely due to the famous no-cloning theorem. Approximate cloning schemes have been proposed to achieve the optimal cloning characterized by the maximal fidelity between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 Xing Xiao , Yao Yao , Lei-Ming Zhou , Xiaoguang Wang

One notion of non-locality in quantum theory is the fact that information may be encoded in a composite system in such a way that it is not accessible through local measurements, even with the assistance of classical communication. Thus,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Sarah Croke

We explore the performance of the metrology scheme by employing a quantum time flip during encoding, a specific case of processes with indefinite time direction, which we refer to as indefinite time directed metrology (ITDM). In the case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Gaurang Agrawal , Pritam Halder , Aditi Sen De

Standard quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols typically assume that the distant parties share a common reference frame. In practice, however, establishing and maintaining a good alignment between distant observers is rarely a trivial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-04 Joshua A. Slater , Cyril Branciard , Nicolas Brunner , Wolfgang Tittel

We address the characterization of genuine network nonlocal correlations, which remain highly challenging due to the non-convex nature of local correlations even in the distinct triangle scenario with three sources and three observers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Anantha Krishnan Sunilkumar , Anil Shaji , Debashis Saha

Quantum metrology exploits quantum correlations to make precise measurements with limited particle numbers. By utilizing inter- and intra- mode correlations in an optical interferometer, we find a state that combines entanglement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 P. A. Knott , T. J. Proctor , A. J. Hayes , J. P. Cooling , J. A. Dunningham

Quantum metrology aims to exploit many-body quantum states to achieve parameter-estimation precision beyond the standard quantum limit. For unitary parameter encoding generated by local Hamiltonians, such enhancement is characterized by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Junjie Chen , Rui Luo , Yuxuan Yan , You Zhou , Xiongfeng Ma

Estimating a classical parameter encoded in the Hamiltonian of a quantum probe is a fundamental and well-understood task in quantum metrology. A textbook example is the estimation of a classical field's amplitude using a two-level probe, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Ricard Ravell Rodríguez , Martí Perarnau-Llobet , Pavel Sekatski

We describe a quantum key distribution protocol based on pairs of entangled qubits that generates a secure key between two partners in an environment of unknown and slowly varying reference frame. A direction of particle delivery is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Anthony Laing , Valerio Scarani , John G. Rarity , Jeremy L. O'Brien

Device-independent quantum key distribution is a secure quantum cryptographic paradigm that allows two honest users to establish a secret key, while putting minimal trust in their devices. Most of the existing protocols have the following…

We derive fundamental accuracy limits for distributed localization when a fusion center has access only to independently rate-distortion (RD)-optimally compressed versions of multi-sensor observations, under a line-of-sight propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Amir Weiss

Bell nonlocality, the fact that local hidden variable models cannot reproduce the correlations obtained by measurements on entangled states, is a cornerstone in our modern understanding of quantum theory. Apart from its fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 M. G. M. Moreno , Samuraí Brito , Ranieri V. Nery , Rafael Chaves

Physical observation is made relative to a reference frame which is essentially a quantum system. Thus, a quantum system must be described relative to a quantum reference frame (QRF). Further requirements on QRF include using only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 Jianhao M. Yang

Distributed aperture telescopes are a well-established approach for boosting resolution in astronomical imaging. However, theoretical limits on quantitative imaging precision, and the fundamentally best possible beam-combining and detection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Aqil Sajjad , Michael R Grace , Saikat Guha

Error-free transmission (EFT) of quantum information is a crucial ingredient in quantum communication network. To overcome the unavoidable decoherence in noisy channel, to date, many efforts have focused on faithfully transmitting one state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Xian-Min Jin , Zhen-Huan Yi , Bin Yang , Fei Zhou , Tao Yang , Cheng-Zhi Peng

Gyroscope for rotation sensing plays a key role in inertial navigation systems. Developing more precise gyroscopes than the conventional ones bounded by classical shot-noise limit by using quantum resources has attracted much attention.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-26 Lin Jiao , Jun-Hong An

In many-body quantum systems, unitary dynamics generically delocalize locally encoded information, causing single-site metrological sensitivity to vanish. We analytically demonstrate that a topological phase can prevent this dispersal. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Marcin Płodzień , Jan Chwedeńczuk

We revisit the problem of estimating an unknown parameter of a pure quantum state, and investigate `null-measurement' strategies in which the experimenter aims to measure in a basis that contains a vector close to the true system state.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Federico Girotti , Alfred Godley , Mădălin Guţă