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Main Authors: Gorecki, Wojciech, Koch, Christiane P.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14098
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author Gorecki, Wojciech
Koch, Christiane P.
author_facet Gorecki, Wojciech
Koch, Christiane P.
contents Quantum metrology promises precision beyond classical limits but environmental noise, unless properly controlled, reduces the quantum advantage to at most a constant improvement. A key challenge is therefore to design quantum control strategies that suppress noise while preserving sensitivity to the targeted signal. Here, we suggest to use dressed states generated by static fields to achieve this goal and show that success of this strategy depends on the spectral properties of the environment. For low-temperature noise, we show that Heisenberg scaling can be achieved if and only if the signal generator lies outside the linear span of the system-environment coupling operators. This implies that the proper dressed states may enable Heisenberg scaling even in cases where the well-known Hamiltonian-not-in-Lindblad-span criterion, evaluated without dressing, would forbid it. We illustrate dressed state metrology for the example of NV-center thermometry under magnetic-field fluctuations, with the framework readily applicable to other platforms.
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spellingShingle Protecting Heisenberg scaling in quantum metrology via engineered dressed states
Gorecki, Wojciech
Koch, Christiane P.
Quantum Physics
Quantum metrology promises precision beyond classical limits but environmental noise, unless properly controlled, reduces the quantum advantage to at most a constant improvement. A key challenge is therefore to design quantum control strategies that suppress noise while preserving sensitivity to the targeted signal. Here, we suggest to use dressed states generated by static fields to achieve this goal and show that success of this strategy depends on the spectral properties of the environment. For low-temperature noise, we show that Heisenberg scaling can be achieved if and only if the signal generator lies outside the linear span of the system-environment coupling operators. This implies that the proper dressed states may enable Heisenberg scaling even in cases where the well-known Hamiltonian-not-in-Lindblad-span criterion, evaluated without dressing, would forbid it. We illustrate dressed state metrology for the example of NV-center thermometry under magnetic-field fluctuations, with the framework readily applicable to other platforms.
title Protecting Heisenberg scaling in quantum metrology via engineered dressed states
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14098