Toward Heisenberg Limit without Critical Slowing Down via Quantum Reinforcement Learning
Critical ground states of quantum many-body systems have emerged as vital resources for quantum-enhanced sensing. Traditional methods to prepare these states often rely on adiabatic evolution, which may diminish the quantum sensing advantage. In this Letter, we propose a quantum reinforcement learning (QRL) enhanced critical sensing protocol for quantum many-body systems with exotic phase diagrams. Starting from product states and utilizing QRL-discovered gate sequences, we explore sensing accuracy in the presence of unknown external magnetic fields, covering both local and global regimes. Our results demonstrate that QRL-learned sequences reach the finite quantum speed limit and generalize effectively across systems of arbitrary size, ensuring accuracy regardless of preparation time. This method can robustly achieve Heisenberg and super-Heisenberg limits, even in noisy environments with practical Pauli measurements. Our study highlights the efficacy of QRL in enabling precise quantum state preparation, thereby advancing scalable, high-accuracy quantum critical sensing.
Authors
- Guihua Zeng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6623-2945)
- Hang Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5213-5984)
- Tailong Xiao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8741-6900)
- Ming He (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1870-7472)
- Jingzheng Huang
- Jianping Fan
Institutions
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN)
- Hefei University (CN)
- Lenovo (China) (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Published
- 2025-03-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.120803
- Citations
- 19
- Primary Topic
- Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 47.14
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks
- Lenovo Group