Optimal nonequilibrium thermometry in Markovian environments
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04425v2
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 10:57:21 GMT
- Title: Optimal nonequilibrium thermometry in Markovian environments
- Authors: Pavel Sekatski, Mart\'i Perarnau-Llobet
- Abstract summary: We find that for a general class of sample-probe interactions the scaling of the measurement uncertainty is inversely proportional to the time of the process.
We show that the Lamb shift induced by the probe-sample interaction can play a relevant role in thermometry.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: What is the minimum time required to take a temperature? In this paper, we
solve this question for a large class of processes where temperature is
inferred by measuring a probe (the thermometer) weakly coupled to the sample of
interest, so that the probe's evolution is well described by a quantum
Markovian master equation. Considering the most general control strategy on the
probe (adaptive measurements, arbitrary control on the probe's state and
Hamiltonian), we provide bounds on the achievable measurement precision in a
finite amount of time, and show that in many scenarios these fundamental limits
can be saturated with a relatively simple experiment. We find that for a
general class of sample-probe interactions the scaling of the measurement
uncertainty is inversely proportional to the time of the process, a shot-noise
like behaviour that arises due to the dissipative nature of thermometry. As a
side result, we show that the Lamb shift induced by the probe-sample
interaction can play a relevant role in thermometry, allowing for finite
measurement resolution in the low-temperature regime. More precisely, the
measurement uncertainty decays polynomially with the temperature as
$T\rightarrow 0$, in contrast to the usual exponential decay with $T^{-1}$. We
illustrate these general results for (i) a qubit probe interacting with a
bosonic sample, where the role of the Lamb shift is highlighted, and (ii) a
collective superradiant coupling between a $N$-qubit probe and a sample, which
enables a quadratic decay with $N$ of the measurement uncertainty.
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