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ArticleScience advances2021

Zero-trade-off multiparameter quantum estimation via simultaneously saturating multiple Heisenberg uncertainty relations.

Zhibo Hou, Jun-Feng Tang, Hongzhen Chen, Haidong Yuan, Guo-Yong Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo

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Zhibo HouCAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China.ORCID 0000-0001-6737-5497
Jun-Feng TangCAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China.
Hongzhen ChenDepartment of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.ORCID 0000-0001-7578-7248
Haidong YuanDepartment of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong. hdyuan@mae.cuhk.edu.hk gyxiang@ustc.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-6493-4481
Guo-Yong XiangCAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China. hdyuan@mae.cuhk.edu.hk gyxiang@ustc.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-9640-3805
Chuan-Feng LiCAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China.ORCID 0000-0001-6815-8929
Guang-Can GuoCAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China.
University of Science and Technology of China · CNChinese University of Hong Kong · HK

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Abstract

Quantum estimation of a single parameter has been studied extensively. Practical applications, however, typically involve multiple parameters, for which the ultimate precision is much less understood. Here, by relating the precision limit directly to the Heisenberg uncertainty relation, we show that to achieve the highest precisions for multiple parameters at the same time requires the saturation of multiple Heisenberg uncertainty relations simultaneously. Guided by this insight, we experimentally demonstrate an optimally controlled multipass scheme, which saturates three Heisenberg uncertainty relations simultaneously and achieves the highest precisions for the estimation of all three parameters in SU(2) operators. With eight controls, we achieve a 13.27-dB improvement in terms of the variance (6.63 dB for the SD) over the classical scheme with the same loss. As an experiment demonstrating the simultaneous achievement of the ultimate precisions for multiple parameters, our work marks an important step in multiparameter quantum metrology with wide implications.

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