Abstract

Abstract Chapter 24 provides a compact introduction to the topic of quantum metrology, focusing on Hamiltonian parameter estimation in the frequentist and in the Bayesian paradigms. We first discuss how estimates of non-directly measurable quantities such as phases are obtained from measurement statistics in the frequentist approach. We then discuss the Cramér-Rao bound and the Fisher information and study single-qubit phase estimation in the light of this result. We then turn to the multi-qubit setting and discuss the quantum Cramér-Rao bound, for which the quantum Fisher information is the central quantity of interest. In this context we discuss the Uhlmann fidelity in detail. We further contrast Heisenberg scaling with the standard quantum limit in the phase-estimation scenario. Finally, we analyse phase estimation in the Bayesian-estimation approach and derive the van Trees inequality as a Bayesian version of the Cramér-Rao bound

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