Globalized nonlinear critical quantum metrology using the two-photon Rabi-Stark model
Zu‐Jian Ying · Physical Review A · 2025
Squeezing as a quantum resource for quantum metrology is robust against decoherence and dissipation, while the conventional nonlinear two-photon quantum Rabi model (QRM) provides a squeezing resource immune to the divergence problem of the preparation time of the probe state (PTPS). However, the critical point of the two-photon QRM is locally restricted to one single point, which hinders a wider application. In the present work we propose to combine the Stark coupling with the two-photon QRM to realize a tunable critical point so that the nonlinear critical quantum metrology can be globalized. As demonstrated by the diverging quantum Fisher information (QFI) the protocol enables us to acquire a high measurement precision in a wide range of coupling parameters rather than locally at a single critical point. Moreover, we find that the QFI not only manifests criticality but also exhibits universality. As a particular merit of our protocol, a strong squeezing can be globally retained as the leading quantum resource, while at the same time the PTPS remains in a finite order.