Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2008-07-21
Phys Rev A vol 78, 042106 (2008)
Physics
Quantum Physics
8 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.78.042106
It is a general fact that the coupling constant of an interacting many-body Hamiltonian do not correspond to any observable and one has to infer its value by an indirect measurement. For this purpose, quantum systems at criticality can be considered as a resource to improve the ultimate quantum limits to precision of the estimation procedure. In this paper, we consider the one-dimensional quantum Ising model as a paradigmatic example of many-body system exhibiting criticality, and derive the optimal quantum estimator of the coupling constant varying size and temperature. We find the optimal external field, which maximizes the quantum Fisher information of the coupling constant, both for few spins and in the thermodynamic limit, and show that at the critical point a precision improvement of order $L$ is achieved. We also show that the measurement of the total magnetization provides optimal estimation for couplings larger than a threshold value, which itself decreases with temperature.
Invernizzi Carmen
Korbman Michael
Paris Matteo G. A.
Venuti Lorenzo Campos
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