Scrambling for precision: optimizing multiparameter qubit estimation in the face of sloppiness and incompatibility

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Multiparameter quantum estimation theory plays a crucial role in advancing quantum metrology.

• Recent studies focused on fundamental challenges such as enhancing precision in the presence of incompatibility or sloppiness, yet the relationship between these features remains poorly understood.
• In this work, we explore the connection between sloppiness and incompatibility by introducing an adjustable scrambling operation for parameter encoding.
• Using a minimal yet versatile two-parameter qubit model, we examine the trade-off between sloppiness and incompatibility and discuss: (1) how information scrambling can improve estimation, and (2) how the correlations between the parameters and the incompatibility between the symmetric logarithmic derivatives impose constraints on the ultimate quantum limits to precision.