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Zuoxian Wang

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Entanglement Drives Common Noise into the Strong-Coupling Regime

Under Gaussian collective dephasing parallel to the signal, the superdecoherence of an $N$-atom Greenberger--Horne--Zeilinger (GHZ) state cancels its gain in Fisher information, so GHZ frequency sensitivity is limited to an atom-number-independent floor. We demonstrate that this floor is a property of Gaussian diffusion: a single common phase kick can at most randomize the phase of an $N$-atom coherence, so discrete events at rate $Γ$ cannot dephase any coherence order faster than $2Γ$. At the same single-atom coherence time, finite-rate Poisson kicks with an absolutely continuous amplitude law therefore saturate the order-$N$ decay rate and restore Heisenberg scaling. We prove that Gaussian diffusion is the worst case for GHZ and Dicke-cat probes under this calibration, that only the Brownian component of Lévy phase noise sets the asymptotic floor, and that the $1/N$ exponent is optimal for parallel Ramsey protocols. These results identify the counting statistics of the common noise, rather than its spectrum, as the property that bounds superdecoherence.

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Record Loss Sets a Rare-Trajectory Limit on Quantum Purification

Continuous quantum feedback uses time-resolved measurement records to steer monitored systems toward pure states. Yet how the information available to a controller determines the ultimate purification speed remains unresolved. We establish this relation for a qubit under fixed-spectrum Hermitian monitoring with detector loss, obtaining the exact long-time impurity-moment spectrum optimized over causal basis controls at each horizon. Rare records with nearly canceled evidence then make all moments from half order upward decay at the Bhattacharyya information rate between two quantum nondemolition record laws. Aligned quantum nondemolition monitoring preserves that binary distinguishability and attains the limit, while complete detection restores an order-dependent branch. The mechanism extends to higher dimensions, where an attainable rank-two ceiling lies above the full-rank qutrit upper bound over a finite moment interval, establishing retained record distinguishability as a purification resource.

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Efficiency-Induced Freezing in Quantum-State Purification

Any nonzero detection loss qualitatively changes feedback-controlled purification under diffusive monitoring. In every finite dimension, we prove a sharp, dimension-independent ceiling on the decay of trajectory-averaged impurity moments, uniformly over admissible predictable feedback protocols.Below unit efficiency, this ceiling becomes independent of moment order above a critical value and is attained on extremal rank-two quantum-nondemolition (QND) faces. For generic observable spectra, a determinant-root law precludes every full-rank state from attaining this boundary rate over an explicit moment-order interval. For qubits at $0<η<1$, the frozen rate is the exact optimum, set by rare, persistently mixed trajectories. Parameter-free finite-action scaling functions resolve both the rounded QND moment-order transition and the near-unit QND--always-unbiased crossover.

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Sub-Ensemble Correlations as a Covariance Geometry

Conventional practice of spatially resolved detection in diffusion-coupled thermal atomic vapors implicitly treat localized responses as mutually independent. However, in this study, it is shown that observable correlations are governed by the intrinsic spatiotemporal covariance of a global spin-fluctuation field, such that spatial separation specifies only overlapping statistical projections rather than independent physical components. A unified field-theoretic description is established in which sub-ensembles are defined as measurement-induced statistical projections of a single stochastic field. Within this formulation, sub-ensemble correlations are determined by the covariance operator, inducing a natural geometry in which statistical independence corresponds to orthogonality of the measurement functionals. For collective spin fluctuations described by a diffusion-relaxation Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic field, the covariance spectrum admits only a finite set of fluctuation modes in a bounded domain, imposing an intrinsic, field-level limit on the number of statistically distinguishable sub-ensembles. The loss of sub-ensemble independence is formalized through the notion of spatial sampling overlap, which quantifies the unavoidable statistical coupling arising from shared access to common low-order fluctuation modes. While multi-channel atomic magnetometry provides a concrete physical setting in which these constraints become explicit, the framework applies generically to diffusion-coupled stochastic fields.

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