Two-stage Quantum Estimation and the Asymptotics of Quantum-enhanced Transmittance Sensing (2402.17922v2)
Abstract: We consider estimation of a single unknown parameter embedded in a quantum state. Quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound (QCRB) is the ultimate limit of the mean squared error for any unbiased estimator. While it can be achieved asymptotically for a large number of quantum state copies, the measurement required often depends on the true value of the parameter of interest. Prior work addresses this paradox using a two-stage approach: in the first stage, a preliminary estimate is obtained by applying, on a vanishing fraction of quantum state copies, a sub-optimal measurement that does not depend on the parameter of interest. In the second stage, the preliminary estimate is used to construct the QCRB-achieving measurement that is applied to the remaining quantum state copies. This is akin to two-step estimators for classical problems with nuisance parameters. Unfortunately, the original analysis imposes conditions that severely restrict the class of classical estimators applied to the quantum measurement outcomes, hindering applications of this method. We relax these conditions to substantially broaden the class of usable estimators for single-parameter problems at the cost of slightly weakening the asymptotic properties of the two-stage method. We also account for nuisance parameters. We apply our results to obtain the asymptotics of quantum-enhanced transmittance sensing.
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