Intrinsic metrological resolution as a distance measure and nonclassical light

We elaborate on a Hilbert-Schmidt distance measure assessing the intrinsic metrological accuracy in the detection of signals imprinted on quantum probe states by signal-dependent transformations. For small signals this leads to a probe-transformation measure Lambda fully symmetric on the probe rho a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Rivas, Ángel, Luis Aina, Alfredo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/51486
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51486
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:535
Hilbert-schmidt distance
Quantum states
Entanglement measures
Projection noise
Classicality
Limit
Óptica (Física)
2209.19 Óptica Física
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Sumario:We elaborate on a Hilbert-Schmidt distance measure assessing the intrinsic metrological accuracy in the detection of signals imprinted on quantum probe states by signal-dependent transformations. For small signals this leads to a probe-transformation measure Lambda fully symmetric on the probe rho and the generator G of the transformation Λ(ρ,G)= Λ(G,ρ). Although Λ can be regarded as a generalization of variance, we show that no uncertainty relation holds for the product of measures corresponding to complementary generators. We show that all states with resolution larger than coherent states are nonclassical. We apply this formalism to feasible probes and transformations.