Is entanglement necessary in the reservoir input?

TL;DR

This paper investigates the role of entanglement in a reservoir of qubits controlling a quantum harmonic oscillator, demonstrating that entanglement is necessary for stabilizing a wider set of states and enhancing quantum metrology.

Contribution

It proves that entanglement in reservoir qubits is essential for stabilizing diverse quantum states and improving parameter estimation precision.

Findings

Entanglement enables stabilization of a broader set of squeezed states.

Separable qubits can stabilize limited states, but entanglement broadens this capability.

Entanglement enhances quantum Fisher information, improving measurement precision.

Abstract

In this paper, we continue our investigation on controlling the state of a quantum harmonic oscillator, by coupling it to a reservoir composed of a sequence of qubits. Specifically, we show that sending qubits separable from each other but initialised at different states in pairs can stabilise the oscillator at squeezed states. However, only if entanglement is allowed in the reservoir qubit can we stabilise the oscillator at a wider set of squeezed states. This thus provides a proof for the necessity of involving entanglement in the reservoir qubits input to the oscillator, as regard to the stabilisation of quantum states in the proposed system setting. On the other hand, this system setup can be in turn used to estimate the coupling strength between the oscillator and reservoir qubits. We further demonstrate that entanglement in the reservoir input qubits contributes to the corresponding quantum Fisher information. From this point of view, entanglement is proved to play an indispensable role in the improvement of estimation precision in quantum metrology.