Practical advantage of non-Hermitian enhanced quantum sensing
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| author | Yang, Kun Chu, Yaoming Gong, Musang Wang, Ning Cai, Jianming |
| author_facet | Yang, Kun Chu, Yaoming Gong, Musang Wang, Ning Cai, Jianming |
| contents | Non-Hermitian systems have emerged as a powerful paradigm for ultrasensitive sensing, leveraging unique spectral and dynamical properties unmatched in Hermitian physics. While recent theoretical bounds suggest these protocols offer no metrological advantage over Hermitian ones in the ideal shot-noise-limited regime when rigorously accounting for the success probability of non-unitary evolution, their practical utility in realistic experimental conditions has not yet been systematically explored. In this work, we shift the focus toward practical laboratory performance and demonstrate that non-Hermitian sensing protocols can significantly outperform their Hermitian counterparts in the presence of pervasive classical technical noises. This performance gain mainly stems from a strongly enhanced susceptibility that amplifies the signal response, effectively overcoming the precision floor imposed by technical imperfections. By numerically evaluating the Fisher information under technical noise, we further substantiate the regimes where non-Hermitian platforms yield definitive practical gains. Our results reconcile the ongoing debate between fundamental limits and experimental observations, offering a concrete avenue for building high-precision, noise-resilient sensors. |
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| spellingShingle | Practical advantage of non-Hermitian enhanced quantum sensing Yang, Kun Chu, Yaoming Gong, Musang Wang, Ning Cai, Jianming Quantum Physics Non-Hermitian systems have emerged as a powerful paradigm for ultrasensitive sensing, leveraging unique spectral and dynamical properties unmatched in Hermitian physics. While recent theoretical bounds suggest these protocols offer no metrological advantage over Hermitian ones in the ideal shot-noise-limited regime when rigorously accounting for the success probability of non-unitary evolution, their practical utility in realistic experimental conditions has not yet been systematically explored. In this work, we shift the focus toward practical laboratory performance and demonstrate that non-Hermitian sensing protocols can significantly outperform their Hermitian counterparts in the presence of pervasive classical technical noises. This performance gain mainly stems from a strongly enhanced susceptibility that amplifies the signal response, effectively overcoming the precision floor imposed by technical imperfections. By numerically evaluating the Fisher information under technical noise, we further substantiate the regimes where non-Hermitian platforms yield definitive practical gains. Our results reconcile the ongoing debate between fundamental limits and experimental observations, offering a concrete avenue for building high-precision, noise-resilient sensors. |
| title | Practical advantage of non-Hermitian enhanced quantum sensing |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20612 |