Parameter estimation with efficient photodetectors

Tuvia Gefen*, David A. Herrera-Martí, Alex Retzker

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Abstract

Current parameter estimation techniques rely on photodetectors which have a low efficiency and thus are based on gathering averaged statistics. Recently it was claimed that perfect photodetction will change the nature of sensing algorithms and will increase the sensing efficiency beyond the immediate effect of a higher collection efficiency. In this paper we bring up the observation that perfect photodetection implies Heisenberg scaling (1T) for parameter estimations. We analyze a specific example in detail.

Original languageAmerican English
Article number032133
JournalPhysical Review A
Volume93
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Mar 2016

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
A.R. acknowledges the support of the Israel Science Foundation(Grant No. 039-8823), the European Commission (STReP EQUAM Grant Agreement No. 323714), EU Project DIADEMS, the Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (CIG) IonQuanSense (321798), and the Niedersachsen-Israeli Research Cooperation Program and DIP program (FO 703/2-1).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 American Physical Society.

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