Recovering optimal precision in quantum sensing with time domain imperfections

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Main Authors: Li, Zi-Shen, Long, Xinyue, Yang, Xiaodong, Lu, Dawei, Yang, Yuxiang
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author Li, Zi-Shen
Long, Xinyue
Yang, Xiaodong
Lu, Dawei
Yang, Yuxiang
author_facet Li, Zi-Shen
Long, Xinyue
Yang, Xiaodong
Lu, Dawei
Yang, Yuxiang
contents Quantum control plays a crucial role in enhancing precision scaling for quantum sensing. However, most existing protocols require perfect control, even though real-world devices inevitably have control imperfections. Here, we consider a fundamental setting of quantum sensing with time domain imperfections, where the duration of control pulses and the interrogation time are all subject to uncertainty. Under this scenario, we investigate the task of frequency estimation in the presence of a non-Markovian environment. We design a control strategy and prove that it outperforms any control-free strategies, recovering the optimal Heisenberg limit up to a small error term that is intrinsic to this model. We further demonstrate the advantage of our control strategy via experiments on a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) platform. Our finding confirms that the advantage of quantum control in quantum sensing persists even in the presence of imperfections.
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spellingShingle Recovering optimal precision in quantum sensing with time domain imperfections
Li, Zi-Shen
Long, Xinyue
Yang, Xiaodong
Lu, Dawei
Yang, Yuxiang
Quantum Physics
Quantum control plays a crucial role in enhancing precision scaling for quantum sensing. However, most existing protocols require perfect control, even though real-world devices inevitably have control imperfections. Here, we consider a fundamental setting of quantum sensing with time domain imperfections, where the duration of control pulses and the interrogation time are all subject to uncertainty. Under this scenario, we investigate the task of frequency estimation in the presence of a non-Markovian environment. We design a control strategy and prove that it outperforms any control-free strategies, recovering the optimal Heisenberg limit up to a small error term that is intrinsic to this model. We further demonstrate the advantage of our control strategy via experiments on a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) platform. Our finding confirms that the advantage of quantum control in quantum sensing persists even in the presence of imperfections.
title Recovering optimal precision in quantum sensing with time domain imperfections
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04223