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The Quantum Fisher Information (QFI) metric governs a fundamental duality: it quantifies both how precisely a parameter can be estimated (metrology) and how distinguishable two quantum states are (privacy). We exploit this duality to…

Privacy is a fundamental requirement in distributed quantum sensing networks, where multiple clients estimate spatially distributed parameters using shared quantum resources while interacting with potentially untrusted servers. Despite its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Min Namkung , Dong-Hyun Kim , Seongjin Hong , Yong-Su Kim , Su-Yong Lee , Hyang-Tag Lim

We study the privacy properties of distributed quantum sensing protocols in a Gaussian quantum network, where each node encodes a parameter via a local phase shift. We first show that perfect privacy and optimal precision are jointly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Uesli Alushi , Roberto Di Candia

In recent times, distributed sensing has been extensively studied using squeezed states. While this is an excellent development, it is desirable to investigate the use of other quantum probes, such as entangled states of light. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Jiaxuan Wang , Girish Agarwal

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…

Can a distributed network of quantum sensors estimate a global parameter while protecting every locally encoded value? We answer this question affirmatively by introducing and analysing a protocol for distributed quantum sensing in the…

Quantum Fisher information (QFI) sets the ultimate precision of optical phase measurements and reveals multiphoton entanglement, but it is not accessible with conventional photodetection. We theoretically predict that a photodetector…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Evgenii Barts , Takahiro Morimoto , Naoto Nagaosa

We treat privacy in a network of quantum sensors where accessible information is limited to specific functions of the network parameters, and all other information remains private. We develop an analysis of privacy in terms of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Majid Hassani , Santiago Scheiner , Matteo G. A. Paris , Damian Markham

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

Quantum networks can enhance both security and privacy conditions for multi-user communication, delegated computation, and distributed sensing tasks. An example quantum protocol is private parameter estimation (PPE) where only the aggregate…

Distributed quantum sensing enables the estimation of multiple parameters encoded in spatially separated probes. While traditional quantum sensing is often focused on estimating a single parameter with maximum precision, distributed quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Luís Bugalho , Majid Hassani , Yasser Omar , Damian Markham

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

Quantum sensors driven into the quantum chaotic regime can have dramatically enhanced sensitivity, which, however, depends intricately on the details of the underlying classical phase space. Here, we develop an accurate semiclassical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Mahdi RouhbakhshNabati , Daniel Braun , Henning Schomerus

We study quantum differential privacy (QDP) by defining a notion of the order of informativeness between pairs of quantum states. In particular, we show that if the hypothesis testing divergence of one pair dominates over that of the other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi , Ayanava Dasgupta , Masahito Hayashi

The Quantum Fisher Information (QFI) is a geometric measure of state deformation calculated along the trajectory parameterizing an ensemble of quantum states. It serves as a key concept in quantum metrology, where it is linked to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Gabriela Wójtowicz , Susana F. Huelga , Marek M. Rams , Martin B. Plenio

Quantum systems used for metrology can offer enhanced precision over their classical counterparts. The design of quantum sensors can be optimized by maximizing the quantum Fisher information (QFI), which characterizes the precision of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 George Mihailescu , Anthony Kiely , Andrew K. Mitchell

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

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

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…

The Quantum Fisher information (QFI) quantifies the ultimate precision of estimating a parameter from a quantum state, and can be regarded as a reliability measure of a quantum system as a quantum sensor. However, estimation of the QFI for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Jacob L. Beckey , M. Cerezo , Akira Sone , Patrick J. Coles
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