Fragility of Optimal Measurements due to Noise in Probe States for Quantum Sensing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08712v1
• Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:39:41 GMT
• Title: Fragility of Optimal Measurements due to Noise in Probe States for Quantum Sensing
• Authors: Andrew Kolmer Forbes, Marco A. Rodríguez-García, Ivan H. Deutsch,
• Abstract summary: We show how discontinuities increase fragility through Jensen's inequality.<n>We present a framework for understanding how discontinuities increase fragility through Jensen's inequality.
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• Abstract: For a given quantum state used in sensing, the quantum Cramér-Rao bound (QCRB) sets a fundamental limit on the precision achievable by an unbiased estimator of an unknown parameter, determined by the inverse of the quantum Fisher information (QFI). The QFI serves as an upper bound on the classical Fisher information (CFI), representing the maximum extractable information about the unknown parameter from measurements on a physical system. Thus, a central goal in quantum parameter estimation is to find a measurement, described by a POVM, that saturates the QFI (achieves maximum CFI), and thereby achieves the QCRB. In the idealization that one uses pure states and unitary encodings for sensing, discontinuities can appear in the CFI but not the QFI. In this article, we demonstrate that these discontinuities are important features, quantifying how much Fisher information is lost in the presence of noise. We refer to this as the Fisher information "fragility". We present a simple framework for understanding how discontinuities increase fragility through Jensen's inequality, and demonstrate how one can use this framework to design more robust POVMs for quantum advantage in metrology.

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