Gaussian quantum estimation of the lossy parameter in a thermal environment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00052v1
• Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 19:38:45 GMT
• Title: Gaussian quantum estimation of the lossy parameter in a thermal environment
• Authors: Robert Jonsson and Roberto Di Candia
• Abstract summary: Lossy bosonic channels play an important role in a number of quantum information tasks. We characterize their metrological power in the idler-free and entanglement-assisted cases, using respectively single- and two-mode Gaussian states as probes.
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• Abstract: Lossy bosonic channels play an important role in a number of quantum information tasks, since they well approximate thermal dissipation in an experiment. Here, we characterize their metrological power in the idler-free and entanglement-assisted cases, using respectively single- and two-mode Gaussian states as probes. In the problem of estimating the lossy parameter, we study the energy-constrained quantum Fisher information (QFI) for generic temperature and lossy parameter regimes, showing qualitative behaviours of the optimal probes. We show semi-analytically that the two-mode squeezed-vacuum state optimizes the QFI for any value of the lossy parameter and temperature. We discuss the optimization of the {\it total} QFI, where the number of probes is allowed to vary by keeping the total energy-constrained. In this context, we elucidate the role of the "shadow-effect" for reaching a quantum advantage. We also consider a photon-number normalization for the environment, widely used in the analysis of quantum illumination and quantum reading protocols. With this normalization, we prove that the large bandwidth TMSV state is the optimal probe for any parameter value. Here, the quantum advantage is of at most a factor of $2$, and is reached in the bright environment case for {\it any} lossy parameter values. Finally, we discuss the implications of our results for quantum illumination and quantum reading applications.

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