Quantum estimation of detection efficiency with no-knowledge quantum feedback
This work provides a theoretical framework for improving quantum parameter estimation in the presence of decoherence, relevant to quantum metrology and control.
The authors show that no-knowledge feedback control can optimally estimate detection efficiency, achieving higher precision for extreme efficiency values and enabling simultaneous estimation of frequency and efficiency parameters better than independent estimation.
We investigate that no-knowledge measurement-based feedback control is utilized to obtain the estimation precision of the detection efficiency. For the feedback operators that concern us, no-knowledge measurement is the optimal way to estimate the detection efficiency. We show that the higher precision can be achieved for the lower or larger detection efficiency. It is found that no-knowledge feedback can be used to cancel decoherence. No-knowledge feedback with a high detection efficiency can perform well in estimating frequency and detection efficiency parameters simultaneously. And simultaneous estimation is better than independent estimation given by the same probes.