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Quantum metrology utilizes quantum effects to reach higher precision measurements of physical quantities compared with their classical counterparts. However the ubiquitous decoherence obstructs its application. Recently, non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Kai Bai , Hong-Gang Luo , Wenxian Zhang , Meng Xiao

Maximizing the precision in estimating parameters in a quantum system subject to instrumentation constraints is cast as a convex optimization problem. We account for prior knowledge about the parameter range by developing a worst-case and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-01 Robert L. Kosut

We investigate measures of non-Markovianity in open quantum systems governed by Gaussian free fermionic dynamics. Standard indicators of non-Markovian behavior, such as the BLP and LFS measures, are revisited in this context. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Giuliano Chiriacò

Quantum state tomography is a technique in quantum information science used to reconstruct the density matrix of an unknown quantum state, providing complete information about the quantum state. It is of significant importance in fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Wenlong Zhao , Da Zhang , Huili Zhang , Haifeng Yu , Zhang-qi Yin

We propose the scheme implementing partial deterministic non-demolition Bell measurement. When it is used in quantum teleportation the information about an unknown input state is optimally distributed among three outgoing qubits. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ladislav Mišta , Radim Filip

We investigate an optimization problem of finding quantum sequential measurements, which forms a wide class of state discrimination problems with the restriction that only sequential measurements are allowed. Sequential measurements from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Kenji Nakahira , Kentaro Kato , Tsuyoshi Sasaki Usuda

Deterministic discrimination of nonorthogonal states is forbidden by quantum measurement theory. However, if we do not want to succeed all the time, i.e. allow for inconclusive outcomes to occur, then unambiguous discrimination becomes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Janos Bergou , Ulrike Herzog , Mark Hillery

Gaussian states of bosonic quantum systems enjoy numerous technological applications and are ubiquitous in nature. Their significance lies in their simplicity, which in turn rests on the fact that they are uniquely determined by two…

We study quantum metrology for unitary dynamics. Analytic solutions are given for both the optimal unitary state preparation starting from an arbitrary mixed state and the corresponding optimal measurement precision. This represents a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Lukas J. Fiderer , Julien M. E. Fraïsse , Daniel Braun

Measuring the distinguishability between quantum states is a basic problem in quantum information theory. In this paper, we develop optimal quantum algorithms that estimate both the trace distance and the (square root) fidelity between pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Qisheng Wang

Quantum state tomography (QST) is the gold standard technique for obtaining an estimate for the state of small quantum systems in the laboratory. Its application to systems with more than a few constituents (e.g. particles) soon becomes…

Quantum state tomography (QST) is one of the fundamental problems in quantum information. Among various metrics, sample complexity is widely used to evaluate QST algorithms. While multi-copy measurements are known to achieve optimal sample…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Gyungmin Cho , Dohun Kim

We consider realistic measurement systems, where measurements are accompanied by decoherence processes. The aim of this work is the construction of methods and algorithms for precise quantum measurements with fidelity close to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Yu. I. Bogdanov , B. I. Bantysh , N. A. Bogdanova , A. B. Kvasnyy , V. F. Lukichev

Adaptive tomography has been widely investigated to achieve faster state tomography processing of quantum systems. Infidelity of the nearly pure states in a quantum information process generally scales as O(1/sqrt(N) ), which requires a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Hyeok Hwang , JaeKyung Choi , Eunseong Kim

Quantum state tomography (QST) remains the gold standard for benchmarking and verification of near-term quantum devices. While QST for a generic quantum many-body state requires an exponentially large amount of resources, most physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Casey Jameson , Zhen Qin , Alireza Goldar , Michael B. Wakin , Zhihui Zhu , Zhexuan Gong

Here, we study the problem of decoding information transmitted through unknown quantum states. We assume that Alice encodes an alphabet into a set of orthogonal quantum states, which are then transmitted to Bob. However, the quantum channel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 D. Concha , L. Pereira , L. Zambrano , A. Delgado

We discuss the problem of finding the best measurement strategy for estimating the value of a quantum system parameter. In general the optimum quantum measurement, in the sense that it maximizes the quantum Fisher information and hence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 Esteban Martinez , Carlos Pineda , François Leyvraz , Pablo Barberis-Blostein

Quantum estimation theory provides optimal observations for various estimation problems for unknown parameters in the state of the system under investigation. However, the theory has been developed under the assumption that every observable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Hotta , M. Ozawa

Critical metrology relies on the precise preparation of a system in its ground state near a quantum phase transition point where quantum correlations get very strong. Typically this increases the quantum Fisher information with respect to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Christoph Hotter , Helmut Ritsch , Karol Gietka

We investigate quantum phase estimation in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer using q-deformed photon states, including q-coherent and q-cat states, which model realistic deviations from ideal light sources. By deriving closed-form photon count…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Duttatreya , Sanjib Dey