光与物质相互作用系统中的量子Fisher信息和自旋压缩

Fisher信息是估计理论中的重要概念,最近发现与量子信息中的纠缠判据具有密切联系.非旋波近似条件下,Dicke模型经典相空间表现为混沌动力学特征.本文详细考察了Dicke模型描述的光与物质相互作用系统中量子Fisher信息和自旋压缩动力学特性.结果表明:在短时瞬态情况下,无论初态处于规则区域还是混沌区域系统均表现为纠缠性质;但在长时稳态情况下,初态处于规则区域时系统纠缠消失,而初态处于混沌区域时系统则一直存在纠缠.通过与系统自旋压缩动力学性质相比较,发现量子Fisher信息可以更有效地刻画量子混沌.进一步考察初态处于规则和混沌区域时系统密度矩阵和纯度的动力学演化特性,发现混沌导致系统退相干现象发生,说明量子Fisher信息对混沌更敏感.     

Stochastic Collisional Quantum Thermometry

We extend collisional quantum thermometry schemes to allow for stochasticity in the waiting time between successive collisions. We establish that introducing randomness through a suitable waiting time distribution, the Weibull distribution, allows us to significantly extend the parameter range for which an advantage over the thermal Fisher information is attained. These results are explicitly demonstrated for dephasing interactions and also hold for partial swap interactions. Furthermore, we show that the optimal measurements can be performed locally, thus implying that genuine quantum correlations do not play a role in achieving this advantage. We explicitly confirm this by examining the correlation properties for the deterministic collisional model.     

Discontinuity and Protection of Quantum Fisher Information for a Two-Qubit System

We analytically investigate the dynamics of quantum Fisher information of two qubits in independent environments for both uncorrelated and entangled input states. Especially, we observe that, in the non-Markovian regime and resonant case, quantum Fisher information of uncorrelated input state vanishes only at discrete time point whereas that of entangled input state can disappear during finite time interval. It shows that quantum Fisher information, which determines the parameter estimation precision, is strongly affected by the environment memory effects, and the advantage of entanglement-enhance metrology no longer exists even for a very short time. We also note that quantum Fisher information for two kinds of input states can be preserved under appropriate qubit-reservoir detuning.     

Quantum Fisher Information and Uncertainty Relations

It is well known that the Cramér–Rao inequality places a lower bound for quantum Fisher information in terms of the variance of any quantum measurement. We establish an upper bound for quantum Fisher information of a parameterized family of density operators in terms of the variance of the generator. These two bounds together yield a generalization of the Heisenberg uncertainty relations from statistical estimation perspective.     

Quantum Parallelism in Quantum Information Processing

We investigate distinguishability (measured by fidelity) of the initial and the final state of a qubit, which is an object of the so-called nonideal quantum measurement of the first kind. We show that the fidelity of a nonideal measurement can be greater than the fidelity of the corresponding ideal measurement. This result is somewhat counterintuitive, and can be traced back to the quantum parallelism in quantum operations, in analogy with the quantum parallelism manifested in the quantum computing theory. In particular, as the quantum parallelism in quantum computing underlies efficient quantum algorithms, the quantum parallelism in quantum information theory underlies the classically unexpected increase of fidelity.     

Transmission of Quantum Fisher Information through Fluctuating Quantum Fields

Transmission of quantum Fisher information (QFI) of initially disentangled parties is studied and the results show that the indirect correlations generated by the environment, which is considered as a bath of fluctuating quantum fields, will help transmit the quantum information. Specifically, using N initially disentangled atoms—one in an excited state carried by one party (the sender, Alice) and the other in the ground state carried by the other parties (the receivers: Bob1, Bob2,…, Bob(N?1)), the phase factor of the state of another atom held by Alice can be transmitted from Alice to Bob with proper time. The transmitted QFI of the phase factor for each receiver has been calculated as a function of the transmitted distance as well as the measurement time and is found to be in relation with the concurrence of the pair of atoms that the sender and the receiver carry. For each transmitted distance, there exists an optimal measurement time to obtain the maximal transmitted QFI, which is in relation with the total number of receivers.     

玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚系统的量子Fisher信息与混沌

量子Fisher信息作为经典Fisher信息的自然推广,与量子信息中的纠缠判断具有密切联系.在表现为典型量子混沌特征的受击两分量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚系统中,研究了与经典相空间对应的纠缠和量子Fisher信息动力学性质. 结果表明,初次撞击后的系统量子态是纠缠的,与初态所处相空间中的混乱程度无关.而量子Fisher信息的动力学演化对系统初态非常敏感,当初态处于混沌区域时,量子Fisher信息值比初态处于规则区域时大.利用这种较好的量子-经典对应关系,得到量子Fisher信息可以刻画量子混沌的结论. 关键词： 量子Fisher信息 玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚 量子混沌 量子-经典对应     

Protecting Quantum Fisher Information in Correlated Quantum Channels

Quantum Fisher information (QFI) has potential applications in quantum metrology tasks. QFI is investigated when the consecutive actions of a quantum channel on the sequence of qubits have partial classical correlations. The results showed that while the decoherence effect is detrimental to QFI, effects of such classical correlations on QFI are channel-dependent. For the Bell-type probe states, the classical correlations on consecutive actions of the depolarizing and phase flip channels can be harnessed to improve QFI, while the classical correlations in the bit flip and bit-phase flip channels induce a slight decrease of QFI. For a more general parameterization form of the probe states, the advantage of using the initial correlated system on improving QFI can also remain in a wide regime of the correlated quantum channels.     

Fisher Information of Wavefunctions： Classical and Quantum

A parametric quantum mechanical wavefunction naturally induces parametric probability distributions by taking absolute square, and we can consider its classical Fisher information. On the other hand, it also induces parametric rank-one projections which may be viewed as density operators, and we can talk about its quantum Fisher information. Among many versions of quantum Fisher information, there are two prominent ones. The first, defined via a quantum score function, was introduced by Helstrom in 1967 and is well known. The second, defined via the square root of the density operator, has its origin in the skew information introduced by Wigner and Yanase in 1963 and remains relatively unnoticed. This study is devoted to investigating the relationships between the classical Fisher information and these two versions of quantum Fisher information for wavefunctions. It is shown that the two versions of quantum Fisher information differ by a factor 2 and that they dominate the classical Fisher information. The non-coincidence of these two versions of quantum Fisher information may be interpreted as a manifestation of quantum discord. We further calculate the difference between the Helstrom quantum Fisher information and the classical Fisher information, and show that it is precisely the instantaneous phase fluctuation of the wavefunctions.     

Quantum metrology with coherent superposition of two different coded channels

We investigate the advantage of coherent superposition of two different coded channels in quantum metrology. In a continuous variable system, we show that the Heisenberg limit 1/N can be beaten by the coherent superposition without the help of indefinite causal order. And in parameter estimation, we demonstrate that the strategy with the coherent superposition can perform better than the strategy with quantum SWITCH which can generate indefinite causal order. We analytically obtain the general form of estimation precision in terms of the quantum Fisher information and further prove that the nonlinear Hamiltonian can improve the estimation precision and make the measurement uncertainty scale as 1/Nm for m ≥ 2. Our results can help to construct a high-precision measurement equipment, which can be applied to the detection of coupling strength and the test of time dilation and the modification of the canonical commutation relation.     

Quantum Secure Dialogue with Quantum Encryption

How to solve the information leakage problem has become the research focus of quantum dialogue. In this paper, in order to overcome the information leakage problem in quantum dialogue, a novel approach for sharing the initial quantum state privately between communicators, i.e., quantum encryption sharing, is proposed by utilizing the idea of quantum encryption. The proposed protocol uses EPR pairs as the private quantum key to encrypt and decrypt the traveling photons, which can be repeatedly used after rotation. Due to quantum encryption sharing, the public announcement on the state of the initial quantum state is omitted, thus the information leakage problem is overcome.The information-theoretical efficiency of the proposed protocol is nearly 100%, much higher than previous information leakage resistant quantum dialogue protocols. Moreover, the proposed protocol only needs single-photon measurements and nearly uses single photons as quantum resource so that it is convenient to implement in practice.     

Quantum Secure Dialogue with Quantum Encryption

How to solve the information leakage problem has become the research focus of quantum dialogue. In this paper, in order to overcome the information leakage problem in quantum dialogue, a novel approach for sharing the initial quantum state privately between communicators, i.e., quantum encryption sharing, is proposed by utilizing the idea of quantum encryption. The proposed protocol uses EPR pairs as the private quantum key to encrypt and decrypt the traveling photons, which can be repeatedly used after rotation. Due to quantum encryption sharing, the public announcement on the state of the initial quantum state is omitted, thus the information leakage problem is overcome. The information-theoretical efficiency of the proposed protocol is nearly 100%, much higher than previous information leakage resistant quantum dialogue protocols. Moreover, the proposed protocol only needs single-photon measurements and nearly uses single photons as quantum resource so that it is convenient to implement in practice.     

Enhancing parameter precision of optimal quantum estimation by quantum screening

We propose a scheme of quantum screening to enhance the parameter-estimation precision in open quantum systems by means of the dynamics of quantum Fisher information.The principle of quantum screening is based on an auxiliary system to inhibit the decoherence processes and erase the excited state to the ground state.By comparing the case without quantum screening,the results show that the dynamics of quantum Fisher information with quantum screening has a larger value during the evolution processes.     

Logarithm Versus Square Root： Comparing Quantum Fisher Information

In classical statistics, the Fisher information is unique in the sense that it is essentially the only monotone Riemannian metric on the space of probability densities. In quantum theory, this uniqueness breaks down, and there are many natural quantum analogues of the Fisher information, among which two particular versions distinguish themselves by their intuitive and informational significance： The first has its origin in the skew information introduced by Wigner and Yanase in 1963 in the context of quantum measurement, and is defined via the square root of the density operator. The second arises from Helstrom＇s study of quantum detection in 1967, and is defined via the symmetric logarithmic derivative. The aim of this paper Js to compare these two versions of quantum Fisher information, and to establish two informational inequalities relating them.     

Quantum Fisher Information for Density Matrices with Arbitrary Ranks

We provide a new expression of the quantum Fisher information （QFI） for a general system. Utilizing this expression, the QFI for a non-full rank density matrix is only determined by its support. This expression can bring convenience for an infinite-dimensional density matrix with a finite support. Besides, a matrix representation of the QFI is also given.     

Quantum machines

We discuss quantum information processing machines. We start with single purpose machines that either redistribute quantum information or identify quantum states. We then move on to machines that can perform a number of functions, with the function they perform being determined by a program, which is itself a quantum state. Examples of both deterministic and probabilistic programmable machines are given, and we conclude with a discussion of the utility of quantum programs.     

Chaos and quantum Fisher information in the quantum kicked top

Quantum Fisher information is related to the problem of parameter estimation.Recently,a criterion has been proposed for entanglement in multipartite systems based on quantum Fisher information.This paper studies the behaviours of quantum Fisher information in the quantum kicked top model,whose classical correspondence can be chaotic.It finds that,first,detected by quantum Fisher information,the quantum kicked top is entangled whether the system is in chaotic or in regular case.Secondly,the quantum Fisher information is larger in chaotic case than that in regular case,which means,the system is more sensitive in the chaotic case.     

Environmental parameter estimation with the two-level atom probes

A novel scheme is proposed to estimate three environmental parameters, the detuning, the temperature and the squeezing strength with one-qubit or two-qubit probes. Quantum Fisher information and the fidelity of the atom probes are calculated. When the detuning between the frequency of cavity field and the atomic transition frequency is estimated, the dynamics of quantum Fisher information shows oscillatory and rising behaviors. To estimate the temperature of the thermal reservoir, the one-qubit probe with the superposition initial state is more favorable than the two-qubit probe with the entangled initial state. When the squeezing strength of the squeezed vacuum reservoir is estimated, we find that the estimation precision is significantly improved by utilizing the two-qubit probe with the maximal entangled initial state. Our work provides a potential application in the open quantum system and quantum information processing.     

Quantum Fisher Information Gap for Systems with Nonlinear Hamiltonians

Quantum Fisher information(QFI) gap characterizes the stability of QFI to space directions. We study the QFI distributions and QFI gap for quantum states generated from nonlinear Hamiltonians for both spin and bosonic systems. We find that the same spin-squeezing parameter(or principle squeezing parameter) corresponds to two different values QFI gap, and the locations of all extreme points of the QFI are explicitly given.     

Dynamics of Quantum Fisher Information in Two Component Bose-Einstein Condensate

We investigate quantum Fisher information dynamics in two component Bose-Einstein condensate interacting spins with an external field. Approximate analytical expressions of quantum Fisher information is presented. Our analysis shows that quantum Fisher information is controlled by adjusting the strength of the external field and the total atomic number. It is shown that the maximal mean quantum Fisher information is occurred and the phase estimation is enhanced to the Heisenberg limit under some conditions.