1. Zero-trade-off multiparameter quantum estimation via simultaneously saturating multiple Heisenberg uncertainty relations
- Author
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Hongzhen Chen, Guo-Yong Xiang, Haidong Yuan, Guang-Can Guo, Jun-Feng Tang, Zhibo Hou, and Chuan-Feng Li
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Multidisciplinary ,Uncertainty principle ,Mathematics::Operator Algebras ,Physics ,SciAdv r-articles ,Single parameter ,Optics ,02 engineering and technology ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,01 natural sciences ,TheoryofComputation_MATHEMATICALLOGICANDFORMALLANGUAGES ,Mathematics::K-Theory and Homology ,Mathematics::Quantum Algebra ,0103 physical sciences ,Quantum metrology ,Statistical physics ,010306 general physics ,0210 nano-technology ,Quantum ,Research Articles ,Mathematics ,Research Article - Abstract
Experiments demonstrate very high precisions achieved simultaneously for multiple parameters with noncommuting generators., Quantum estimation of a single parameter has been studied extensively. Practical applications, however, typically involve multiple parameters, for which the ultimate precision is much less understood. Here, by relating the precision limit directly to the Heisenberg uncertainty relation, we show that to achieve the highest precisions for multiple parameters at the same time requires the saturation of multiple Heisenberg uncertainty relations simultaneously. Guided by this insight, we experimentally demonstrate an optimally controlled multipass scheme, which saturates three Heisenberg uncertainty relations simultaneously and achieves the highest precisions for the estimation of all three parameters in SU(2) operators. With eight controls, we achieve a 13.27-dB improvement in terms of the variance (6.63 dB for the SD) over the classical scheme with the same loss. As an experiment demonstrating the simultaneous achievement of the ultimate precisions for multiple parameters, our work marks an important step in multiparameter quantum metrology with wide implications.
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- 2020