Achieving the Heisenberg limit of metrology via measurement on an ancillary qubit

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06081v2
• Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 06:27:31 GMT
• Title: Achieving the Heisenberg limit of metrology via measurement on an ancillary qubit
• Authors: Peng Chen, Jun Jing,
• Abstract summary: We propose a protocol by the unconditional measurement on the ancillary qubit after an optimized period of joint evolution from product state.<n>With synchronous encoding and qubit measurement, the quantum Fisher information about the phase encoded in the probe system with optimized initial states can exactly attain the Heisenberg scaling $N2$.
• Score: 3.687781331131875
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In the scenario of the probe-ancilla interaction, we propose a quantum metrology protocol by the unconditional measurement on the ancillary qubit after an optimized period of joint evolution from product state. Its key element is the construction of two parallel evolution paths by the measurement that can transform the probe system (a spin ensemble) from an eigenstate of a collective angular momentum operator $|j,m\rangle$ to a superposed state $(|j,m\rangle+|j,-m\rangle)/\sqrt2$. With synchronous parametric encoding and qubit measurement, the quantum Fisher information about the phase encoded in the probe system with optimized initial states can exactly attain the Heisenberg scaling $N^2$ with respect to the probe size (spin number) $N$. The quadratic scaling behavior is not sensitive to the imprecise control over the joint evolution time, the time delay between encoding and measurement, and the coherence in the probe ensemble or the ancillary system that would be degraded by local dephasing. The classical Fisher information of the spin ensemble is found to saturate with its quantum counterpart, irrespective of the idle joint evolution after the parametric encoding. We suggest that both Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ)-like states and nonlinear Hamiltonian are {\em not} necessary resources for exceeding the standard quantum limit in metrology precision since in our protocol even thermal states can hold an asymptotic quadratic scaling.

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