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We present the experimental measurement, on a quantum processor, of a series of polynomial lower bounds that converge to the quantum Fisher information (QFI), a fundamental quantity for certifying multipartite entanglement that is useful…

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…

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Quantum criticality, as a fascinating quantum phenomenon, may provide significant advantages for quantum sensing. Here we propose a dynamic framework for quantum sensing with a family of Hamiltonians that undergo quantum phase transitions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Yaoming Chu , Shaoliang Zhang , Baiyi Yu , Jianming Cai

Quantum optical systems comprising quantum emitters interacting with engineered optical modes generate non-classical states of light that can be used as resource states for quantum-enhanced interferometry. However, outside of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Erfan Abbasgholinejad , Daniel Malz , Ana Asenjo-Garcia , Rahul Trivedi

The quantum Fisher information (QFI), as a function of quantum states, measures the amount of information that a quantum state carries about an unknown parameter. The (entanglement-assisted) QFI of a quantum channel is defined to be the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-06 Sisi Zhou , Liang Jiang

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

The measurement of physical parameters is one of the main pillars of science. A classic example is the measurement of the optical phase enabled by optical interferometry where the best sensitivity achievable with N photons scales as 1/N -…

We study the role of quantum entanglement (particle entanglement and mode entanglement) in optical phase estimation by employing the first and second quantization formalisms of quantum mechanics. The quantum Fisher information (QFI) is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-23 Jaspreet Sahota , Nicolás Quesada , Daniel F. V. James

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

We propose an experimentally accessible scheme to determine lower bounds on the quantum Fisher information (QFI), which ascertains multipartite entanglement or usefulness for quantum metrology. The scheme is based on comparing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-14 Florian Fröwis , Pavel Sekatski , Wolfgang Dür

Quantum systems of infinite dimension, such as bosonic oscillators, provide vast resources for quantum sensing. Yet, a general theory on how to manipulate such bosonic modes for sensing beyond parameter estimation is unknown. We present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Jasmine Sinanan-Singh , Gabriel L. Mintzer , Isaac L. Chuang , Yuan Liu

Quantum Fisher information (QFI) plays a vital role in quantum precision measurement, quantum information, many-body physics, and other domains. Obtaining the QFI from experiment for a quantum state reveals insights such as the limits of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Qi Liu

Commercially available Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices now make small hybrid quantum-classical experiments practical, but many tools hide configuration or demand ad-hoc scripting. We introduce the Quantum Experiment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Vincent Gierisch , Wolfgang Mauerer

Quantum Fisher information (QFI) is a central concept in quantum sciences used to quantify the ultimate precision limit of parameter estimation, detect quantum phase transitions, witness genuine multipartite entanglement, or probe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros , Tomasz Wasak , Alessio Recati

We introduce Quantum Functional Information (QFI), a new metric to quantify the rarity and utility of quantum states and circuits. Unlike standard measures such as fidelity or entropy, QFI captures the balance between functionality and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Rodrigo Pasti , Jonas Krause

In this work, we present a lower bound on the quantum Fisher information (QFI) which is efficiently computable on near-term quantum devices. This bound itself is of interest, as we show that it satisfies the canonical criteria of a QFI…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 Akira Sone , M. Cerezo , Jacob L. Beckey , Patrick J. Coles

In a standard Quantum Sensing (QS) task one aims at estimating an unknown parameter $\theta$, encoded into an $n$-qubit probe state, via measurements of the system. The success of this task hinges on the ability to correlate changes in the…

Precise device characterization is a fundamental requirement for a large range of applications using photonic hardware, and constitutes a multi-parameter estimation problem. Estimates based on measurements using single photons or classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Nana Liu , Hugo Cable

Using extensive numerical analysis of 20,000 randomly generated two-qubit states, we provide a quantitative analysis of the connection between entanglement measures and Maximized Quantum Fisher Information (MQFI). Our systematic study shows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Volkan Erol

Quantum Fisher information matrix (QFIM) is a core concept in theoretical quantum metrology due to the significant importance of quantum Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound in quantum parameter estimation. However, studies in recent years have revealed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 Jing Liu , Haidong Yuan , Xiao-Ming Lu , Xiaoguang Wang