Non-equilibrium quantum thermometry with bosonic samples

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.27894v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:37:58 GMT
• Title: Non-equilibrium quantum thermometry with bosonic samples
• Abstract summary: We study low-temperature non-equilibrium quantum thermometry with a bosonic probe at $T$ through a Drudemic spectral density.<n>We treat the probe--bath dynamics exactly, using the quadratic solution of Boyanovsky and Jasnow.<n>We prove that the Markovian QFI rises monotonically to its stationary value and develops no interior optimum.
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• Abstract: We study low-temperature non-equilibrium quantum thermometry with a bosonic probe: a quantum harmonic oscillator strongly coupled to a bosonic bath at temperature $T$ through a Drude--Ohmic spectral density. We treat the probe--bath dynamics both exactly, using the quadratic solution of Boyanovsky and Jasnow, and within a renormalized Gorini--Kossakowski--Lindblad--Sudarshan (GKLS) master equation. From the time-dependent covariance matrix we extract the quantum Fisher information (QFI) for general single-mode Gaussian probe states, including squeezed ones. In the strong-coupling, non-Markovian regime the QFI is non-monotonic in time, displaying bath-memory revivals that make a finite interrogation time $t^*>0$ strictly optimal. By contrast, we prove that the Markovian QFI rises monotonically to its stationary value and develops no interior optimum, so that its optimum is always pinned to the boundary $t^*\to\infty$; this complements existing Markovian precision-rate bounds, which concern $(\mathcal F(t)/t)$ rather than the single-shot QFI $(\mathcal F(t))$. Squeezed initial states yield a large transient advantage that thermalisation eventually erases, establishing squeezing and interrogation time as complementary thermometric resources. At equilibrium, strong coupling replaces the exponential Boltzmann suppression of the low-temperature relative error by a far milder polynomial divergence. As the model maps directly onto circuit quantum electrodynamics, these protocols appear within current experimental reach.

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