Holevo Cramér-Rao bound: How close can we get without entangling measurements?

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Main Authors: Das, Aritra, Conlon, Lorcán O., Suzuki, Jun, Yung, Simon K., Lam, Ping K., Assad, Syed M.
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author Das, Aritra
Conlon, Lorcán O.
Suzuki, Jun
Yung, Simon K.
Lam, Ping K.
Assad, Syed M.
author_facet Das, Aritra
Conlon, Lorcán O.
Suzuki, Jun
Yung, Simon K.
Lam, Ping K.
Assad, Syed M.
contents In multi-parameter quantum metrology, the resource of entanglement can lead to an increase in efficiency of the estimation process. Entanglement can be used in the state preparation stage, or the measurement stage, or both, to harness this advantage; here we focus on the role of entangling measurements. Specifically, entangling or collective measurements over multiple identical copies of a probe state are known to be superior to measuring each probe individually, but the extent of this improvement is an open problem. It is also known that such entangling measurements, though resource-intensive, are required to attain the ultimate limits in multi-parameter quantum metrology and quantum information processing tasks. In this work we investigate the maximum precision improvement that collective quantum measurements can offer over individual measurements for estimating parameters of qudit states, calling this the 'collective quantum enhancement'. We show that, whereas the maximum enhancement can, in principle, be a factor of $n$ for estimating $n$ parameters, this bound is not tight for large $n$. Instead, our results prove an enhancement linear in dimension of the qudit is possible using collective measurements and lead us to conjecture that this is the maximum collective quantum enhancement in any local estimation scenario.
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spellingShingle Holevo Cramér-Rao bound: How close can we get without entangling measurements?
Das, Aritra
Conlon, Lorcán O.
Suzuki, Jun
Yung, Simon K.
Lam, Ping K.
Assad, Syed M.
Quantum Physics
Mathematical Physics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
In multi-parameter quantum metrology, the resource of entanglement can lead to an increase in efficiency of the estimation process. Entanglement can be used in the state preparation stage, or the measurement stage, or both, to harness this advantage; here we focus on the role of entangling measurements. Specifically, entangling or collective measurements over multiple identical copies of a probe state are known to be superior to measuring each probe individually, but the extent of this improvement is an open problem. It is also known that such entangling measurements, though resource-intensive, are required to attain the ultimate limits in multi-parameter quantum metrology and quantum information processing tasks. In this work we investigate the maximum precision improvement that collective quantum measurements can offer over individual measurements for estimating parameters of qudit states, calling this the 'collective quantum enhancement'. We show that, whereas the maximum enhancement can, in principle, be a factor of $n$ for estimating $n$ parameters, this bound is not tight for large $n$. Instead, our results prove an enhancement linear in dimension of the qudit is possible using collective measurements and lead us to conjecture that this is the maximum collective quantum enhancement in any local estimation scenario.
title Holevo Cramér-Rao bound: How close can we get without entangling measurements?
topic Quantum Physics
Mathematical Physics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09622