Quantum error correction assisted quantum metrology without entanglement (1901.03493v1)

Abstract: In this article we study the role that quantum resources play in quantum error correction assisted quantum metrology (QECQM) schemes. We show that there exist classes of such problems where entanglement is not necessary to retrieve noise free evolution and Heisenberg scaling in the long time limit. Over short time scales, noise free evolution is also possible even without any form of quantum correlations. In particular, for qubit probes, we show that whenever noise free quantum metrology is possible via QECQM, entanglement free schemes over long time scales and correlation free schemes over short time scales are always possible.