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| author | Lordi, Noah Wilson, John Drew Holland, Murray J. Combes, Joshua |
| author_facet | Lordi, Noah Wilson, John Drew Holland, Murray J. Combes, Joshua |
| contents | Quantum-enhanced metrology surpasses classical metrology by improving estimation precision scaling with a resource $N$ (e.g., particle number or energy) from $1/\sqrt{N}$ to $1/N$. Through the use of nonlinear effects, Roy and Braunstein~\cite{Roy2008} derived a $1/2^N$ scaling. However, later works argued this exponential improvement is unphysical and that even modest gains, like $1/N^2$, may vanish under noise. We show that, in the presence of small errors, the nonlinear interactions enabling metrological enhancement induce emergent errors. The errors propagate through the sensing protocol and are magnified proportional to any intended non-linear enhancement. We identify a critical value of the parameter to be estimated, for a fixed error, below which the emergent errors can be avoided. |
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| spellingShingle | Noise constraints on sensitivity scaling in super-Heisenberg quantum metrology Lordi, Noah Wilson, John Drew Holland, Murray J. Combes, Joshua Quantum Physics Quantum-enhanced metrology surpasses classical metrology by improving estimation precision scaling with a resource $N$ (e.g., particle number or energy) from $1/\sqrt{N}$ to $1/N$. Through the use of nonlinear effects, Roy and Braunstein~\cite{Roy2008} derived a $1/2^N$ scaling. However, later works argued this exponential improvement is unphysical and that even modest gains, like $1/N^2$, may vanish under noise. We show that, in the presence of small errors, the nonlinear interactions enabling metrological enhancement induce emergent errors. The errors propagate through the sensing protocol and are magnified proportional to any intended non-linear enhancement. We identify a critical value of the parameter to be estimated, for a fixed error, below which the emergent errors can be avoided. |
| title | Noise constraints on sensitivity scaling in super-Heisenberg quantum metrology |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03638 |