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arXiv:2401.14479 · New Journal of Physics

Characterization of partially accessible anisotropic spin chains in the presence of anti-symmetric exchange

Simone Cavazzoni, Marco Adani, Paolo Bordone, Matteo G. A. Paris

Published May 1, 2024• 6 citations

Abstract

Abstract We address quantum characterization of anisotropic spin chains in the presence of anti-symmetric exchange, and investigate whether the Hamiltonian parameters of the chain may be estimated with precision approaching the ultimate limit imposed by quantum mechanics. At variance with previous approaches, we focus on the information that may be extracted by measuring only two neighboring spins rather than a global observable on the entire chain. We evaluate the Fisher information (FI) of a two-spin magnetization measure, and the corresponding quantum Fisher information (QFI), for all the relevant parameters, i.e. the spin coupling, the anisotropy, and the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya (DM) parameter. Our results show that the reduced system made of two neighboring spins may be indeed exploited as a probe to characterize global properties of the entire system. In particular, we find that the ratio between the FI and the QFI is close to unit for a large range of the coupling values. The DM coupling is beneficial for coupling estimation, since it leads to the presence of additional bumps and peaks in the FI and QFI, which are not present in a model that neglects exchange interaction and may be exploited to increase the robustness of the overall estimation procedure. Finally, we address the multiparameter estimation problem, and show that the model is compatible but sloppy, i.e. both the Uhlmann curvature and the determinant of the QFI matrix vanish. Physically, this means that the state of the system actually depends only on a reduced numbers of combinations of parameters, and not on all of them separately.

DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ad48ae

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Quantum metrology enhances the sensitivity of parameter estimation using the distinctive resources of quantum mechanics such as entanglement. It has been shown that the precision of estimating an overall multiplicative factor of a Hamiltonian can be increased to exceed the classical limit, yet little is known about estimating a general Hamiltonian parameter. In this paper, we study this problem in detail. We find that the scaling of the estimation precision with the number of systems can always be optimized to the Heisenberg limit, while the time scaling can be quite different from that of estimating an overall multiplicative factor. We derive the generator of local parameter translation on the unitary evolution operator of the Hamiltonian, and use it to evaluate the estimation precision of the parameter and establish a general upper bound on the quantum Fisher information. The results indicate that the quantum Fisher information generally can be divided into two parts: one is quadratic in time, while the other oscillates with time. When the eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian do not depend on the parameter, the quadratic term vanishes, and the quantum Fisher information will be bounded in this case. To illustrate the results, we give an example of estimating a parameter of a magnetic field by measuring a spin-

\frac{1}{2}

particle and compare the results for estimating the amplitude and the direction of the magnetic field.

We study in this work the metrology precision of a probe system coupled to an ancillary qubit. Restricting the probe-qubit coupling along only one or two directions is found to be a sufficient criterion for the effective dynamical generator to achieve the Heisenberg limit in precision. Under the criterion, the quantum Fisher information (QFI) about the to-be-estimated parameter becomes the expectation value of mean square of the effective generator with respect to the initial state of the composite system. Our criterion is justified in two distinct systems. For a bosonic probe, QFI about the displacement estimation is found to be proportional to the mean excitation number of probe. It renders a counterintuitive result that quantum metrology sensitivity can be enhanced by increasing the temperature of the probe system. For a spin-ensemble probe, QFI about both rotation-phase and magnetic-field estimation exhibit a quadratic dependence on the probe-spin number. It is found that even when the spin-ensemble is prepared as a finite-temperature state, faraway from the so-called resource states, e.g., the squeezed state or the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state, QFI can still manifest a Heisenberg scaling behavior.