Heisenberg scaling under collective non-parallel directional noise via geometric state design

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02848v2
• Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:41:25 GMT
• Title: Heisenberg scaling under collective non-parallel directional noise via geometric state design
• Abstract summary: We study the problem of parameter estimation under emphclassical collective noise that acts along a emphfixed direction during signal encoding.<n>Our approach captures both parallel (dephasing) and single-axis transverse noise as special cases, and covers both Markovian and non-Markovian metrological regimes.<n>In the properly squeezed limit, where a Holstein-Primakoff description is accurate, we identify a geometric noise-immunity mechanism.
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• Abstract: Spin-squeezed states enable entanglement-enhanced frequency estimation; however, the achievable performance is limited in practice by decoherence. We study the problem of parameter estimation under \emph{classical collective noise} that acts along a \emph{fixed} direction during signal encoding. While we restrict our analysis to Gaussian noise statistics, no assumption is made on the nature of the noise temporal correlations. Our approach captures both parallel (dephasing) and single-axis transverse noise as special cases, and covers both Markovian and non-Markovian metrological regimes. In the properly squeezed limit, where a Holstein-Primakoff description is accurate, we identify a geometric noise-immunity mechanism: for \emph{known} non-parallel signal and noise axes, an appropriate one-axis-twisted input encodes the signal in a quadrature that is metric-orthogonal to the direction of noise-induced diffusion. Irrespective of the noise temporal correlations, the resulting estimation precision exhibits Heisenberg scaling in the probe number. Optimal performance is achievable by measuring a single collective spin component. Imperfect knowledge of the noise axis produces a crossover from Heisenberg scaling at moderate probe number back to the known collective-dephasing bounds asymptotically.

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