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We derived an asymptotic bound the accuracy of the estimation when we use the quantum correlation in the measuring apparatus. It is also proved that this bound can be achieved in any model in the quantum two-level system. Moreover, we show…

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Upper bounds for private communication over quantum channels can be derived by adopting channel simulation, protocol stretching, and relative entropy of entanglement. All these ingredients have led to single-letter upper bounds to the…

We address characterization of lossy and dephasing channels in the presence of self-Kerr interaction using coherent probes. In particular, we investigate the ultimate bounds to precision in the joint estimation of loss and nonlinearity and…

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We propose a protocol to overcome the shot noise limit and reach the Heisenberg scaling limit for parameter estimation by using quantum optimal control and a time-reversal strategy. Exemplified through the phase estimation, which can play…

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We consider the problem of recovering linear image $Bx$ of a signal $x$ known to belong to a given convex compact set $X$ from indirect observation $\omega=Ax+\sigma\xi$ of $x$ corrupted by Gaussian noise $\xi$. It is shown that under some…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

Bayesian quantum estimation provides a robust framework for quantum technologies, especially in scenarios with limited data and minimal prior information. Yet, its application to continuous-variable Gaussian systems has remained limited and…

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The trade-off capacity region of a quantum channel characterizes the optimal net rates at which a sender can communicate classical, quantum, and entangled bits to a receiver by exploiting many independent uses of the channel, along with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Mark M. Wilde , Patrick Hayden , Saikat Guha

Verification of a quantum advantage in the presence of noise is a key open problem in the study of near-term quantum devices. In this work, we show how to assess the quality of photonic interference in a linear optical quantum device (boson…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Jelmer J. Renema , Hui Wang , Jian Qin , Xiang You , Chaoyang Lu , Jianwei Pan

We address the experimental determination of entanglement for systems made of a pair of polarization qubits. We exploit quantum estimation theory to derive optimal estimators, which are then implemented to achieve ultimate bound to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 G. Brida , I. P. Degiovanni , A. Florio , M. Genovese , P. Giorda , A. Meda , M. G. A. Paris , A. Shurupov

We consider the estimation of a sparse parameter vector from measurements corrupted by white Gaussian noise. Our focus is on unbiased estimation as a setting under which the difficulty of the problem can be quantified analytically. We show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-02 Alexander Jung , Zvika Ben-Haim , Franz Hlawatsch , Yonina C. Eldar

We develop an efficient algorithm for determining optimal adaptive quantum estimation protocols with arbitrary quantum control operations between subsequent uses of a probed channel. We introduce a tensor network representation of an…

When is optimal estimation linear? It is well known that, when a Gaussian source is contaminated with Gaussian noise, a linear estimator minimizes the mean square estimation error. This paper analyzes, more generally, the conditions for…

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In this paper, we investigate the additive Gaussian noise channel with noisy feedback. We consider the setup of linear coding of the feedback information and Gaussian signaling of the message (i.e. Cover-Pombra Scheme). Then, we derive the…

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We construct optimal measurements, achieving the ultimate precision predicted by quantum theory, for the simultaneous estimation of centroid, separation, and relative intensities of two incoherent point sources using a linear optical…

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Conventional formulation of quantum sensing has been mostly developed in the context of local estimation, where the unknown parameter is roughly known. In contrast, global sensing, where the prior information is incomplete and the unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Matteo G. A. Paris , Abolfazl Bayat

Gaussian channel simulation is an essential paradigm in understanding the evolution of bosonic quantum states. It allows us to investigate how such states are influenced by the environment and how they transmit quantum information. This…

In this work, we consider optimal state discrimination for a quantum system that interacts with an environment, i.e., states evolve under a quantum channel. We show the conditions on a quantum channel and an ensemble of states such that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Spiros Kechrimparis , Tanmay Singal , Chahan M. Kropf , Joonwoo Bae

Various phase concepts may be treated as special cases of the maximum likelihood estimation. For example the discrete Fourier estimation that actually coincides with the operational phase of Noh, Fouge`res and Mandel is obtained for…

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We derive fundamental bounds on the maximal achievable precision in multiparameter noisy quantum metrology, valid under the most general entanglement-assisted adaptive strategy, which are tighter than the bounds obtained by a direct use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-27 Francesco Albarelli , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

We obtain an optimal bound for a Gaussian approximation of a large class of vector-valued random processes. Our results provide a substantial generalization of earlier results that assume independence and/or stationarity. Based on the decay…

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