Unbounded quantum Fisher information in two-path interferometry with finite photon number

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/46/3/035302MaRDI QIDQ4920384zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 17 May 2013

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2990

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Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Quantum state estimation, approximate cloning (81P50) Quantum optics (81V80) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

Abstract: The minimum error of unbiased parameter estimation is quantified by the quantum Fisher information in accordance to the Cram'{e}r-Rao bound. We indicate that only superposed NOON states by simultaneous measurements can achieve the maximum quantum Fisher information with form $<hat{N}^2>$ for a given photon number distribution by a POVM in linear two-path interferometer phase measurement. We present a series of specified superposed states with infinite quantum Fisher information but with finite average photon numbers. The advantage of this unbounded quantum Fisher information will be beneficial to many applications in quantum technology.

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