Heisenberg-limited metrology in the presence of non-Markovian noise with finite control rates

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12913v1
• Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:49:59 GMT
• Title: Heisenberg-limited metrology in the presence of non-Markovian noise with finite control rates
• Abstract summary: We show that protocols utilizing infinitely fast controls, such as quantum error correction, can restore Heisenberg-limited frequency estimation.<n>We establish a direct connection between these protocols and the quantum Zeno effect, and extend the framework to infinite-dimensional environments.
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• Abstract: Recently, it has been shown that protocols utilizing infinitely fast controls, such as quantum error correction, can in principle restore Heisenberg-limited frequency estimation in the presence of a broad class of non-Markovian noise models arising from coupling to finite-dimensional environments. However, these controls differ substantially from those used to address Markovian noise, and their underlying physical mechanism remains unclear. In this work, we establish a direct connection between these protocols and the quantum Zeno effect, and extend the framework to infinite-dimensional environments. We delineate three types of constructions: (a) protocols that rely solely on measurements, (b) protocols using an active recovery after measurements and (c) protocols using dynamical decoupling and rigorously analyze the performance of each when controls can be applied at only a finite rate. While protocols relying purely on measurements can be engineered for noise models where active recoveries are fundamentally impossible, they result in the quantum Fisher information exhibiting a quadratically worse dependence on the control frequency. Surprisingly, while dynamical decoupling protocols are possible whenever protocols relying only on measurements can be engineered, the quantum Fisher information has the same dependence on control frequency as the active recovery protocols. Numerical simulations suggest that the improvement offered by dynamical decoupling may work in regimes beyond the perturbative setting where our rigorous theorems apply.

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