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This study investigates quantum-enhanced parameter estimation through continuous monitoring in open quantum systems that exhibit a dissipative time crystal phase. We first analytically derive the global quantum Fisher information (QFI) rate…

We investigate the fundamental and practical precision limits of thermometry in bosonic and fermionic environments by coupling an $N$-level probe to them and continuously monitoring it. Our findings show that the ultimate precision limit,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Mohammad Mehboudi , Florian Meier , Marcus Huber , Harry J. D. Miller

Quantum metrology pursues high-precision measurements of physical quantities by using quantum resources. However, the decoherence generally hinders its performance. Previous work found that the metrological error tends to diverge in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-04 Wei Wu , Jun-Hong An

Most quantum metrology protocols harness highly entangled probe states and globally accessible measurements to surpass the standard quantum limit. However, it is challenging to satisfy these requirements in realistic many-body sensors. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Harshita Sharma , Sayan Choudhury , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay

A longstanding problem in quantum metrology is how to extract as much information as possible in realistic scenarios with not only multiple unknown parameters, but also limited measurement data and some degree of prior information. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Jesús Rubio , Jacob Dunningham

We provide efficient and intuitive tools for deriving bounds on achievable precision in quantum enhanced metrology based on the geometry of quantum channels and semi-definite programming. We show that when decoherence is taken into account,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-19 Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski , Jan Kolodynski , Madalin Guta

Quantum metrology promises measurement precision beyond classical limits by exploiting large-scale quantum states, yet realizing this advantage faces two fundamental challenges: the deterministic preparation of non-trivial quantum probes…

Cubic phase states provide the essential non-Gaussian resource for continuous-variable quantum computing. We show that they also offer significant potential for quantum metrology, surpassing the phase-sensing sensitivity of all Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Jiajie Guo , Shuheng Liu , Boxuan Jing , Qiongyi He , Manuel Gessner

Resolving frequencies in a time-dependent field is classically limited by the measurement bandwidth. Using tools from quantum metrology and quantum control may overcome this limit, yet the full advantage afforded by entanglement so far…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Anirban Dey , Sara Mouradian , Cosmo Lupo , Zixin Huang

Quantum metrology is a general term for methods to precisely estimate the value of an unknown parameter by actively using quantum resources. In particular, some classes of entangled states can be used to significantly suppress the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-01 Takanori Sugiyama

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

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

Coherence time is an important resource to generate enhancement in quantum metrology. In this work, based on continuous-variable models, we propose a new design of the signal-probe Hamiltonian which generates an exponential enhancement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Li Sun , Xi He , Chenglong You , Chufan Lv , Bo Li , Seth Lloyd , Xiaoting Wang

Quantum metrology studies the ultimate limit of precision in estimating a physical quantity if quantum strategies are exploited. Here we investigate the evolution of a two-level atom as a detector which interacts with a massless scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-28 Zehua Tian , Jieci Wang , Heng Fan , Jiliang Jing

Making use of coherence and entanglement as metrological quantum resources allows to improve the measurement precision from the shot-noise- or quantum limit to the Heisenberg limit. Quantum metrology then relies on the availability of…

The quantum Fisher information (QFI) is a fundamental quantity of interest in many areas from quantum metrology to quantum information theory. It can in particular be used as a witness to establish the degree of multi-particle entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-26 Aniket Rath , Cyril Branciard , Anna Minguzzi , Benoît Vermersch

Standard quantum metrology relies on ensemble-averaged quantities, such as the Quantum Fisher Information (QFI), which often mask the fluctuations inherent to single-shot realizations. In this work, we bridge the gap between quantum…

In quantum metrology quantum properties such as squeezing and entanglement are exploited in the design of a new generation of clocks, sensors and other measurement devices that can outperform their classical counterparts. Applications of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-26 Mehdi Ahmadi , David Edward Bruschi , Ivette Fuentes

We investigate the ultimate precision achievable in Gaussian quantum metrology. We derive general analytical expressions for the quantum Fisher information matrix and for the measurement compatibility condition, ensuring asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Rosanna Nichols , Pietro Liuzzo-Scorpo , Paul A. Knott , Gerardo Adesso

Present protocols of criticality-enhanced sensing with open quantum sensors assume direct measurement of the sensor and omit the radiation quanta emitted to the environment, thereby potentially missing valuable information. Here we propose…

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