Estimating imprecision lower bound in a neighbourhood of a known Cramér-Rao lower bound

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dc.contributor.advisorSanders, Barry C.
dc.contributor.advisorde Guise, Hubert
dc.contributor.authorSalimi Moghadam, Mahkame
dc.contributor.committeememberOblak, Daniel
dc.contributor.committeememberShahbazi, Mozhdeh
dc.contributor.committeememberFriesen, Timothy
dc.date2024-11
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-24T18:58:32Z
dc.date.available2024-09-24T18:58:32Z
dc.date.issued2024-09-20
dc.description.abstractThe ultimate metrology limit, classical or quantum, for estimating an unknown parameter defining a distribution of measurement outcomes, is determined by the Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB). However, which distribution pertains to the measurement setup can itself fluctuate for running each trial of the experiment or even within one run, meaning that we are estimating the distribution parameter in the case that we have a distribution of distributions. Our aim is to estimate the imprecision CRLB for the parameter of a distribution but in a small neighbourhood of this distribution rather than precisely at this parameter. We determine this CRLB in a neighbourhood by calculating a Taylor expansion of the Fisher information for the distribution in a neighbourhood of its defining parameter, obtain the expression for the CRLB for each distribution in this neighbourhood and then calculate the average CRLB over this neighbourhood. We illustrate our result for the case of two-parameter estimation in SU(2) interferometry for which singularities of the CRLB arise, making this averaging not just illustrative but also needed to circumvent the singularity.
dc.identifier.citationSalimi Moghadam, M. (2024). Estimating imprecision lower bound in a neighbourhood of a known Cramér-Rao lower bound (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1880/119868
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisher.facultyScience
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgary
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dc.subjectFisher information
dc.subjectCramér-Rao lower bound
dc.subjectMach–Zehnder interferometer
dc.subjectSingular matrices
dc.subjectQuantum metrology
dc.subjectParameter estimation
dc.subject.classificationPhysics--Theory
dc.subject.classificationStatistics
dc.titleEstimating imprecision lower bound in a neighbourhood of a known Cramér-Rao lower bound
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplinePhysics & Astronomy
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science (MSc)
ucalgary.thesis.accesssetbystudentI do not require a thesis withhold – my thesis will have open access and can be viewed and downloaded publicly as soon as possible.
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