Quantum Barankin bounds beyond local unbiasedness: Analytic results for Gaussian states via a right-division framework

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.10157v1
• Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:32:47 GMT
• Title: Quantum Barankin bounds beyond local unbiasedness: Analytic results for Gaussian states via a right-division framework
• Abstract summary: We propose a quantum version of the Barankin bound as an alternative to the quantum Cramér-Rao bound for quantum parameter estimation.<n>In particular, unbiasedness over the entire parameter space can be imposed, yielding precision limits for globally unbiased quantum parameter estimation.
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• Abstract: We propose a quantum version of the Barankin bound as an alternative to the quantum Cramér-Rao bound for quantum parameter estimation. The quantum Barankin bound provides a lower bound on the mean squared error of estimators satisfying arbitrarily chosen bias constraints at arbitrarily chosen parameter points. In particular, unbiasedness over the entire parameter space can be imposed, yielding precision limits for globally unbiased quantum parameter estimation. In contrast to the recently derived quantum Barankin bound, which is based on a symmetric division superoperator, our bound is based on a nonsymmetric right-division superoperator. This formulation enables us to find analytic expressions for the Barankin matrix for Gaussian states, which allows for an efficient calculation of the bound. We demonstrate the usefulness of our results by applying them to various examples that exhibit the threshold effect in the few-shot regime, which is invisible to the standard quantum Cramér-Rao bound approach.

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