Abstract
The impact of measurement imperfections on quantum metrology protocols has not been approached in a systematic manner so far. In this work, we tackle this issue by generalising firstly the notion of quantum Fisher information to account for noisy detection, and propose tractable methods allowing for its approximate evaluation. We then show that in canonical scenarios involving N probes with local measurements undergoing readout noise, the optimal sensitivity depends crucially on the control operations allowed to counterbalance the measurement imperfections—with global control operations, the ideal sensitivity (e.g., the Heisenberg scaling) can always be recovered in the asymptotic N limit, while with local control operations the quantum-enhancement of sensitivity is constrained to a constant factor. We illustrate our findings with an example of NV-centre magnetometry, as well as schemes involving spin-1/2 probes with bit-flip errors affecting their two-outcome measurements, for which we find the input states and control unitary operations sufficient to attain the ultimate asymptotic precision.
| Original language | American English |
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| Article number | 6971 |
| Journal | Nature Communications |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Dec 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors are thankful to Spyridon Michalakis and Michał Oszmaniec for fruitful discussions. Y.L.L. & J.K. acknowledge financial support from the Foundation for Polish Science within the “Quantum Optical Technologies” project carried out within the International Research Agendas programme co-financed by the European Union under the European Regional Development Fund. T.G. acknowledges the support of the Israel Council for Higher Education Quantum Science and Technology Scholarship.
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