We address estimation of temperature for finite quantum systems at thermal equilibrium and show that the Landau bound to precision δ T² ∝ T², originally derived for a classical { not too small} system being a portion of a large isolated system at thermal equilibrium, may be also achieved by energy measurement in microscopic { quantum} systems exhibiting vanishing gap as a function of some control parameter. On the contrary, for any quantum system with a non-vanishing gap Δ, precision of any temperature estimator diverges as δ T² T⁴ eΔ/T.
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