Thermometry of Gaussian quantum systems using Gaussian measurements

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02098v4
• Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:04:25 GMT
• Title: Thermometry of Gaussian quantum systems using Gaussian measurements
• Authors: Marina F.B. Cenni, Ludovico Lami, Antonio Acin, Mohammad Mehboudi
• Abstract summary: We study the problem of estimating the temperature of Gaussian systems with feasible measurements. For a class of single-mode states that includes thermal ones, the optimal Gaussian measurement is either Heterodyne or Homodyne, depending on the temperature regime. We show that Gaussian measurements become optimal in the limit of large temperatures, while on/off photo-detection-like measurements do it for when the temperature tends to zero.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: We study the problem of estimating the temperature of Gaussian systems with feasible measurements, namely Gaussian and photo-detection-like measurements. For Gaussian measurements, we develop a general method to identify the optimal measurement numerically, and derive the analytical solutions in some relevant cases. For a class of single-mode states that includes thermal ones, the optimal Gaussian measurement is either Heterodyne or Homodyne, depending on the temperature regime. This is in contrast to the general setting, in which a projective measurement in the eigenbasis of the Hamiltonian is optimal regardless of temperature. In the general multi-mode case, and unlike the general unrestricted scenario where joint measurements are not helpful for thermometry (nor for any parameter estimation task), it is open whether joint Gaussian measurements provide an advantage over local ones. We conjecture that they are not useful for thermal systems, supported by partial analytical and numerical evidence. We further show that Gaussian measurements become optimal in the limit of large temperatures, while on/off photo-detection-like measurements do it for when the temperature tends to zero. Our results therefore pave the way for effective thermometry of Gaussian quantum systems using experimentally realizable measurements.

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