Estimation of pulsed driven qubit parameters via quantum Fisher information

Abstract

We estimate the initial weight and phase parameters of a single qubit system initially prepared in the coherent state and in interaction with three different shapes of pulses; rectangular, exponential, and -pulses. In general, we show that the estimation degree of the weight parameter depends on the pulse shape and the initial phase angle, . For the rectangular pulse case, increasing the estimating rate of the weight parameter via the Fisher information function is possible with small values of the atomic detuning parameter and larger values of pulse strength. Fisher information increases suddenly at the resonant case to reach its maximum value if the initial phase and consequently one may estimate the phase parameter with a high degree of precision. If the initial system is coded with classical information, the upper bounds of Fisher information for resonant and non-resonant cases are much larger and consequently, one may estimate the phase parameter with a high degree of accuracy. Similarly, as the detuning increases the Fisher information decreases and therefore the possibility of estimating the phase parameter decreases. For exponential and -pulses the Fisher information is maximum () and consequently, one can always estimate the weight and the phase parameters with a high degree of precision.