Bypassing thermalization timescales in temperature estimation using prethermal probes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05496v1
• Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 16:34:17 GMT
• Title: Bypassing thermalization timescales in temperature estimation using prethermal probes
• Authors: Nicholas Anto-Sztrikacs, Harry J. D. Miller, Ahsan Nazir, Dvira Segal
• Abstract summary: We introduce prethermal temperature probes for sensitive, fast and robust temperature estimation. We find that prethermal probes surpass the corresponding equilibrium probes in terms of effective thermal sensitivity.
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• Abstract: We introduce prethermal temperature probes for sensitive, fast and robust temperature estimation. While equilibrium thermal probes with a manifold of quasidegenerate excited states have been previously recognized for their maximal sensitivity, they suffer from long thermalization timescales. When considering time as a critical resource in thermometry, it becomes evident that these equilibrium probes fall short of ideal performance. Here, we propose a different paradigm for thermometry, where setups originally suggested for optimal equilibrium thermometry should instead be employed as prethermal probes, by making use of their long-lived quasiequilibrium state. This transient state emerges from the buildup of quantum coherences among quasidegenerate levels. For a class of physically-motivated initial conditions, we find that energy measurements of the prethermal state exhibit a similar sensitivity as the equilibrium state. However, they offer the distinct benefit of orders of magnitude reduction in the time required for the estimation protocol. Upon introducing a figure-of-merit that accounts for the estimation protocol time, prethermal probes surpass the corresponding equilibrium probes in terms of effective thermal sensitivity, opening avenues for rapid thermometry by harnessing the long-lived prethermal states.

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