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Use of non-classical light in a quantum illumination scheme provides an advantage over classical illumination when used for LIDAR with a simple and realistic detection scheme based on Geiger-mode single photon detectors. Here we provide an…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-20 Richard J. Murchie , Jonathan D. Pritchard , John Jeffers

The advantages of using quantum states of light for object detection are often highlighted in schemes that use simultaneous and optimal measurements. Here, we describe a theoretical but experimentally realizable quantum illumination scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Hao Yang , Nigam Samantaray , John Jeffers

Quantum illumination uses a quantum state of the electromagnetic field to detect the presence of a target against a bright background more sensitively than any classical state. Most often, the quantum state is a two-mode squeezed vacuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Jonathan N. Blakely

The quantum illumination technique requires joint measurement between the idler and the probe reflected from the low-reflective target present in a noisy environment. The joint measurement is only possible with prior knowledge about the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Sankar Davuluri , Greeshma Gopinath , Matt J. Woolley

This paper solves the open problem of characterizing the performance of quantum illumination (QI) with discrete variable states. By devising a novel quantum measurement approach along with meticulous analysis, our investigation demonstrates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Armanpreet Pannu , Amr S. Helmy , Hesham El Gamal

Entangled states, like the two-mode squeezed vacuum state, are known to give quantum advantage in the illumination protocol, a method to detect a weakly reflecting target submerged in a thermal background. We use non-Gaussian photon-added…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-03 Rivu Gupta , Saptarshi Roy , Tamoghna Das , Aditi Sen De

Quantum illumination (QI) is an entanglement-based protocol for improving lidar/radar detection of unresolved targets beyond what a classical lidar/radar of the same average transmitted energy can do. Originally proposed by Lloyd as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Jeffrey H. Shapiro

In the last years the exploitation of specific properties of quantum states has disclosed the possibility of realising tasks beyond classical limits, creating the new field of quantum technologies [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. Among them,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 E. D. Lopaeva , I. Ruo Berchera , S. Olivares , G. Brida , I. P. Degiovanni , M. Genovese

Sensing and measurement tasks in severely adverse conditions such as loss, noise and dephasing can be improved by illumination with quantum states of light. Previous results have shown a modest reduction in the number of measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Alex O. C. Davis , Giacomo Sorelli , Valerian Thiel , Brian J. Smith

Quantum illumination (QI) provides entanglement-based target detection---in an entanglement-breaking environment---whose performance is significantly better than that of optimum classical-illumination target detection. QI's performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Quntao Zhuang , Zheshen Zhang , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

This Letter verifies the potential of several classes of entangled coherent state in well known quantum metrology which includes detection of classical external force, and shows that there is a class of entangled coherent state for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-10 Osamu Hirota , Kentaro Kato , Dan Murakami

Quantum states of light have been shown to enhance precision in absorption estimation over classical strategies. By exploiting interference and resonant enhancement effects, we show that coherent-state probes in all-pass ring resonators can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 Alexandre Belsley , Euan J. Allen , Animesh Datta , Jonathan C. F. Matthews

Quantum illumination utilizes an entanglement-enhanced sensing system to outperform classical illumination in detecting a suspected target, despite the entanglement-breaking loss and noise. However, practical and optimal receiver design to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Xin Chen , Quntao Zhuang

In a quantum illumination (QI) protocol, the task is to detect the presence of the target which is typically modelled by a partially reflecting beam splitter. We analyze the performance of QI when the target absorbs part of the light that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Rivu Gupta , Saptarshi Roy , Tamoghna Das , Aditi Sen De

Measurements approaching the ultimate quantum limits of sensitivity are central in quantum information processing, quantum metrology, and communication. Quantum measurements to discriminate multiple states at the single-photon level are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-02 A. R. Ferdinand , M. T. DiMario , F. E. Becerra

In this article, the basic principle of target detection based on Gaussian state quantum illumination (QI) has introduced. The performance of such system has compared with its classical counterpart, which employs the most classical state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Hossein Allahverdi , M. H. Qamat , M. Nowshadi

Quantum illumination (QI) is the task of querying a scene using a transmitter probe whose quantum state is entangled with a reference beam retained in ideal storage, followed by optimally detecting the target-returned light together with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Ali Cox , Quntao Zhuang , Jeffrey H. Shapiro , Saikat Guha

We investigate performances of pure continuous variable states in discriminating thermal and identity channels by comparing their M-copy error probability bounds. This offers us a simplified mathematical analysis for quantum target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-10 A. R. Usha Devi , A. K. Rajagopal

Quantum illumination uses quantum correlations to enhance the detection of an object in the presence of background noise. This advantage has been shown to exist even if one uses non-optimal direct measurements on the two correlated modes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Thomas Brougham , Nigam Samantaray , John Jeffers

In the realm of quantum information, entanglement stands as a cornerstone phenomenon. It underpins a vast array of quantum information processes, offering significant potential for advancements in quantum computing, communication, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Armanpreet Pannu , Amr S. Helmy , Hesham El Gamal