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Physica A 413 (2014) 256–265 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Physica A journal homepage: /locate/physa Quantum probes for fractional Gaussian processes Matteo G.A. Paris Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università degli Studi di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy h i g h l i g h t s • We address the characterization of classical fractional random noise via quantum probes. • We evaluate the Bures metric, and the Helstrom and the Chernoff bound, and optimize their values over the interaction time. • We found that quantum probes may be successfully employed in the weak- and strong-coupling regimes. a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: We address the characterization of classical fractional random noise via quantum probes. Received 6 March 2014 In particular, we focus on estimation and discrimination problems involving the fractal di- Received in revised form 5 June 2014 mension of the trajectories of a system subject to fractional Brownian noise. We assume Available online 8 July 2014 that the classical degree of freedom exposed to the environmental noise is coupled to a quantum degree of freedom of the same system, e.g. its spin, and exploit quantum limited Keywords: measurements on the spin part to characterize the classical fractional noise. More gener- Quantum estimation Fractional Gaussian noise ally, our approach may be applied to any two-level system subject to dephasing perturba- tions