Bayesian approach to simultaneous quantum multiparameter estimation with finite data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10230v1
• Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:07:13 GMT
• Title: Bayesian approach to simultaneous quantum multiparameter estimation with finite data
• Abstract summary: This work builds on Personick's method, in which the estimation problem is reduced to a set of Lyapunov equations.<n>We construct a convex combination of the solutions, parameterized by a set of variational parameters.<n>The resulting projective measurement determines the likelihood function, from which the minimum mean-square error estimators and the corresponding Bayesian mean-square errors are obtained.
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• Abstract: Multiparameter estimation remains a fundamental challenge in quantum estimation theory because the optimal measurements associated with different parameters are generally incompatible. In this work, we develop a Bayesian framework for the simultaneous estimation of multiple parameters. Our approach builds on Personick's method, in which the estimation problem is reduced to a set of Lyapunov equations whose solutions define optimal observables for the individual parameters. Since these observables generally do not commute, we construct a convex combination of the solutions, parameterized by a set of variational parameters. The spectral decomposition of the resulting operator defines a parametrized projection-valued measure. The resulting projective measurement determines the likelihood function, from which the minimum mean-square error estimators and the corresponding Bayesian mean-square errors are obtained, following standard Bayesian procedures, as functions of the variational parameters. To determine their optimal values, we formulate a minimax optimization problem based on the normalized Bayesian mean-square errors, introducing a min-max normalization procedure that enables a meaningful comparison of estimation errors associated with different parameters. This optimization yields a variationally optimized projective measurement for simultaneous Bayesian estimation. Two qubit examples, involving phase estimation and the estimation of parameters defining convex combinations of unitary operations, demonstrate the construction of optimized projective measurements and the corresponding minimum mean-square error estimators within the proposed framework for finite data sets.

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