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20142025
most citedIndividual quantum probes for optimal thermometry

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28 papers

quant-ph2025★ 33 cited

Roadmap on Quantum Thermodynamics

Steve Campbell, Irene D'Amico, Mario A. Ciampini +66

The last two decades has seen quantum thermodynamics become a well established field of research in its own right. In that time, it has demonstrated a remarkably broad applicabilit…

quant-ph2024

Measurement incompatibility under loss

Mohammad Mehboudi, Fatemeh Rezaeinia, Saleh Rahimi-Keshari

We investigate the measurement incompatibility of continuous-variable systems with infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces under the influence of pure losses, a fundamental noise sourc…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Optimal limits of continuously monitored thermometers and their Hamiltonian structure

Mohammad Mehboudi, Florian Meier, Marcus Huber +1

We investigate the fundamental and practical precision limits of thermometry in bosonic and fermionic environments by coupling an -level probe to them and continuously monitorin…

quant-ph2023★ 15 cited

Strongly coupled fermionic probe for nonequilibrium thermometry

Ricard Ravell Rodríguez, Mohammad Mehboudi, Michał Horodecki +1

We characterise the measurement sensitivity, quantified by the Quantum Fisher Information (QFI), of a single-fermionic thermometric probe strongly coupled to the sample of interest…

quant-ph2023★ 12 cited

Probe thermometry with continuous measurements

Julia Boeyens, Björn Annby-Andersson, Pharnam Bakhshinezhad +5

Temperature estimation plays a vital role across natural sciences. A standard approach is provided by probe thermometry, where a probe is brought into contact with the sample and e…

quant-ph2022★ 44 cited

Critical quantum metrology assisted by real-time feedback control

Raffaele Salvia, Mohammad Mehboudi, Martí Perarnau-Llobet

We investigate critical quantum metrology,that is the estimation of parameters in many-body systems close to a quantum critical point, through the lens of Bayesian inference theory…

quant-ph2022★ 3 cited

Ancillary Gaussian modes activate the potential to witness non-Markovianity

Dario De Santis, Donato Farina, Mohammad Mehboudi +1

We study how the number of employed modes impacts the ability to witness non-Markovian evolutions via correlation backflows in continuous-variable quantum dynamics. We first prove…

quant-ph2022★ 4 cited

Operational significance of nonclassicality in nonequilibrium Gaussian quantum thermometry

Safoura S. Mirkhalaf, Mohammad Mehboudi, Zohre Nafari Qaleh +1

We provide new operational significance of nonclassicality in nonequilibrium temperature estimation of bosonic baths with Gaussian probe states and Gaussian dynamics. We find a bou…

quant-ph2021

Thermodynamic length and work optimisation for Gaussian quantum states

Mohammad Mehboudi, Harry J. D. Miller

Constructing optimal thermodynamic processes in quantum systems relies on managing the balance between the average excess work and its stochastic fluctuations. Recently it has been…

quant-ph2021★ 25 cited

Thermometry of Gaussian quantum systems using Gaussian measurements

Marina F. B. Cenni, Ludovico Lami, Antonio Acin +1

We study the problem of estimating the temperature of Gaussian systems with feasible measurements, namely Gaussian and photo-detection-like measurements. For Gaussian measurements,…

quant-ph2021★ 52 cited

Fundamental limits in Bayesian thermometry and attainability via adaptive strategies

Mohammad Mehboudi, Mathias R. Jørgensen, Stella Seah +3

We investigate the limits of thermometry using quantum probes at thermal equilibrium within the Bayesian approach. We consider the possibility of engineering interactions between t…

quant-ph2021★ 3 cited

Bayesian quantum thermometry based on thermodynamic length

Mathias R. Jørgensen, Jan Kołodyński, Mohammad Mehboudi +2

In this work, we propose a theory of temperature estimation of quantum systems, which is applicable in the regime of non-negligible prior temperature uncertainty and limited measur…

cond-mat.quant-gas2021★ 33 cited

Sub-nK thermometry of an interacting -dimensional homogeneous Bose gas

Muhammad Miskeen Khan, Mohammad Mehboudi, Hugo Tercas +2

We propose experimentally feasible means for non-destructive thermometry of homogeneous Bose Einstein condensates in different spatial dimensions (). Our impurity ba…

quant-ph2020★ 5 cited

Verification of joint measurability using phase-space quasiprobability distributions

Saleh Rahimi-Keshari, Mohammad Mehboudi, Dario De Santis +2

Measurement incompatibility is a distinguishing property of quantum physics and an essential resource for many quantum information processing tasks. We introduce an approach to ver…

quant-ph2020★ 45 cited

Geometry of work fluctuations versus efficiency in microscopic thermal machines

Harry J. D. Miller, Mohammad Mehboudi

When engineering microscopic machines, increasing efficiency can often come at a price of reduced reliability due to the impact of stochastic fluctuations. Here we develop a genera…

quant-ph2020★ 45 cited

Bath-Induced Correlations Enhance Thermometry Precision at Low Temperatures

Guim Planella, Marina F. B. Cenni, Antonio Acin +1

We study the role of bath-induced correlations in temperature estimation of cold bosonic baths. Our protocol includes multiple probes, that are not interacting, nor are they initia…

cond-mat.quant-gas2019★ 12 cited

Heat current control in trapped BEC

Christos Charalambous, Miguel-Angel Garcia-March, Mohammad Mehboudi +1

We investigate the heat transport and the control of heat current among two spatially separated trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC), each of them at a different temperature. To…

cond-mat.stat-mech2019★ 11 cited

Linear response theory for quantum Gaussian processes

Mohammad Mehboudi, Juan. M. R. Parrondo, Antonio Acin

Fluctuation dissipation theorems connect the linear response of a physical system to a perturbation to the steady-state correlation functions. Until now, most of these theorems hav…

quant-ph2018★ 188 cited

Thermometry in the quantum regime: Recent theoretical progress

Mohammad Mehboudi, Anna Sanpera, Luis A. Correa

Controlling and measuring the temperature in different devices and platforms that operate in the quantum regime is, without any doubt, essential for any potential application. In t…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018★ 116 cited

Using polarons for sub-nK quantum non-demolition thermometry in a Bose-Einstein condensate

Mohammad Mehboudi, Aniello Lampo, Christos Charalambous +3

We introduce a novel minimally-disturbing method for sub-nK thermometry in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). Our technique is based on the Bose-polaron model; namely, an impurity e…

quant-ph2018★ 21 cited

Dynamically induced heat rectification in quantum systems

Andreu Riera-Campeny, Mohammad Mehboudi, Marisa Pons +1

Heat rectifiers are systems that conduct heat asymmetrically for forward and reversed temperature gradients. Here, we present an analytical study of heat rectification in linear qu…

quant-ph2017★ 20 cited

Fluctuation-dissipation theorem for non-equilibrium quantum systems

Mohammad Mehboudi, Anna Sanpera, Juan M. R. Parrondo

The fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT) is a central result in statistical physics, both for classical and quantum systems. It establishes a relationship between the linear respo…

quant-ph2017★ 46 cited

Global and local thermometry schemes in coupled quantum systems

Steve Campbell, Mohammad Mehboudi, Gabriele De Chiara +1

We study the ultimate bounds on the estimation of temperature for an interacting quantum system. We consider two coupled bosonic modes that are assumed to be thermal and using quan…

quant-ph2016★ 108 cited

Low-temperature thermometry can be enhanced by strong coupling

Luis A. Correa, Martí Perarnau-Llobet, Karen V. Hovhannisyan +3

We consider the problem of estimating the temperature of a very cold equilibrium sample. The temperature estimates are drawn from measurements performed on a quantum probe st…