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In this work, we study the problems of certifying and learning quantum Ising Hamiltonians. Our main contributions are as follows: Certification of Ising Hamiltonians. We show that certifying an Ising Hamiltonian in normalized Frobenius norm…

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We compare critical quantum sensing to passive quantum strategies to perform frequency estimation, in the case of single-mode quadratic Hamiltonians. We show that, while in the unitary case both strategies achieve precision scaling…

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We show that it is possible to perform Heisenberg-limited metrology on GHZ-like states, in the presence of generic spatially local, possibly strong interactions during the measurement process. An explicit protocol, which relies on…

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We formalize and study the Hamiltonian certification problem. Given access to $e^{-\mathrm{i} Ht}$ for an unknown Hamiltonian $H$, the goal of the problem is to determine whether $H$ is $\varepsilon_1$-close to or $\varepsilon_2$-far from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Minbo Gao , Zhengfeng Ji , Qisheng Wang , Wenjun Yu , Qi Zhao

The ability to characterise a Hamiltonian with high precision is crucial for the implementation of quantum technologies. In addition to the well-developed approaches utilising optimal probe states and optimal measurements, the method of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Shushen Qin , Marcus Cramer , Christiane P. Koch , Alessio Serafini

Quantum metrology has many important applications in science and technology, ranging from frequency spectroscopy to gravitational wave detection. Quantum mechanics imposes a fundamental limit on measurement precision, called the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Sisi Zhou , Mengzhen Zhang , John Preskill , Liang Jiang

Quantum metrology promises precision beyond classical limits but environmental noise, unless properly controlled, reduces the quantum advantage to at most a constant improvement. A key challenge is therefore to design quantum control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Wojciech Gorecki , Christiane P. Koch

Learning the Hamiltonian underlying a quantum many-body system in thermal equilibrium is a fundamental task in quantum learning theory and experimental sciences. To learn the Gibbs state of local Hamiltonians at any inverse temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Chi-Fang Chen , Anurag Anshu , Quynh T. Nguyen

We consider the problem of learning the Hamiltonian of a quantum system from estimates of Gibbs-state expectation values. Various methods for achieving this task were proposed recently, both from a practical and theoretical point of view.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Adam Artymowicz , Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi , Samuel O. Scalet

Quantum phase estimation is a cornerstone in quantum algorithm design, allowing for the inference of eigenvalues of exponentially-large sparse matrices.The maximum rate at which these eigenvalues may be learned, --known as the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Alicja Dutkiewicz , Barbara M. Terhal , Thomas E. O'Brien

Quantum state tomography is an essential tool for the characterization and verification of quantum states. However, as it cannot be directly applied to systems with more than a few qubits, efficient tomography of larger states on mid-sized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Yotam Y. Lifshitz , Eyal Bairey , Eli Arbel , Gadi Aleksandrowicz , Haggai Landa , Itai Arad

Quantum sensing holds great promise for high-precision magnetic field measurements. However, its performance is significantly limited by noise. The investigation of active quantum error correction to address this noise led to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Oskar Novak , Narayanan Rengaswamy

We establish general limits on how precise a parameter, e.g. frequency or the strength of a magnetic field, can be estimated with the aid of full and fast quantum control. We consider uncorrelated noisy evolutions of N qubits and show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Pavel Sekatski , Michalis Skotiniotis , Janek Kołodyński , Wolfgang Dür

We consider quantum metrology in noisy environments, where the effect of noise and decoherence limits the achievable gain in precision by quantum entanglement. We show that by using tools from quantum error-correction this limitation can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-12 W. Dür , M. Skotiniotis , F. Fröwis , B. Kraus

In this work, we consider a fundamental task in quantum many-body physics - finding and learning ground states of quantum Hamiltonians and their properties. Recent works have studied the task of predicting the ground state expectation value…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Štěpán Šmíd , Roberto Bondesan

In the scenario of the probe-ancilla interaction, we propose a quantum metrology protocol by the unconditional measurement on the ancillary qubit after an optimized period of joint evolution from product state. Its key element is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Peng Chen , Jun Jing

We study the problem of Hamiltonian structure learning from real-time evolution: given the ability to apply $e^{-\mathrm{i} Ht}$ for an unknown local Hamiltonian $H = \sum_{a = 1}^m \lambda_a E_a$ on $n$ qubits, the goal is to recover $H$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Ainesh Bakshi , Allen Liu , Ankur Moitra , Ewin Tang

Non-classical resources enable measurements to achieve a precision that exceeds the limits predicted by the central limit theorem. However, environmental noise arising from system-environment interactions severely limits the performance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 Bakmou Lahcen , Ke Zeng , Yu Jiang , Kok Chuan Tan

The rapid progress in quantum computing (QC) and machine learning (ML) has attracted growing attention, prompting extensive research into quantum machine learning (QML) algorithms to solve diverse and complex problems. Designing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Huan-Hsin Tseng , Hsin-Yi Lin , Shinjae Yoo