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Recent theoretical studies in quantum spectroscopy have emphasized the potential of non-classical correlations in entangled photon pairs for selectively targeting specific nonlinear optical processes in nonlinear optical responses. However,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yuta Fujihashi , Ozora Iso , Ryosuke Shimizu , Akihito Ishizaki

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

We introduce the entangled coherent state representation, which provides a powerful technique for efficiently and elegantly describing and analyzing quantum optics sources and detectors while respecting the photon number superselection rule…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Barry C. Sanders , Stephen D. Bartlett , Terry Rudolph , Peter L. Knight

Detecting object with low reflectivity embedded within a noisy background is a challenging task. Quantum correlations between pairs of quantum states of light, though are highly sensitive to background noise and losses, offer advantages…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 K. Muhammed Shafi , A. Padhye , C. M. Chandrashekar

High-speed generation and efficient entanglement detection on a photonic chip are essential for quantum information applications but hard to achieve due to common photonic chips' material properties and limited component performance. In…

In this article, we introduce a framework for entanglement characterization by time-resolved single-photon counting with measurement operators defined in the time domain. For a quantum system with unitary dynamics, we generate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Artur Czerwinski

We investigate the use of correlated photon pair sources for the improved quantum-level detection of a target in the presence of a noise background. Photon pairs are generated by spontaneous four-wave mixing, one photon from each pair (the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Duncan G. England , Bhashyam Balaji , Benjamin J. Sussman

It has been discussed recently how quantum illumination can be used to increase the accuracy of the value range-delay measurement \cite{Zhuang Shapiro 2022} in the domain of SNR compatible with current radar systems. However, the advantage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Ricardo Gallego Torromé

The high-rate detection of entangled photons is essential for advancing photonic quantum information processing. Although several experimental demonstrations have been reported, the achievable coincidence rates have so far remained limited.…

Macroscopic quantum phenomena, such as observed in superfluids and superconductors, have led to promising technological advancements and some of the most important tests of fundamental physics. At present, quantum detection of light is…

Quantum state discrimination is a central problem in quantum measurement theory, with applications spanning from quantum communication to computation. Typical measurement paradigms for state discrimination involve a minimum probability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 M. T. DiMario , F. E. Becerra

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

We develop a quantum learning scheme for binary discrimination of coherent states of light. This is a problem of technological relevance for the reading of information stored in a digital memory. In our setting, a coherent light source is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-09 Gael Sentís , Madalin Guta , Gerardo Adesso

Photon counting is a fundamental component in quantum optics and quantum information. However, implementing ideal photon-number-resolving (PNR) detectors remains experimentally challenging. Multiplexed PNR detection offers a scalable and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Xiaobin Zhao , Hezheng Qin , Hong X. Tang , Linran Fan , Quntao Zhuang

Frequency non-degenerate entangled photon pairs have been employed in quantum communication, imaging, and sensing. To characterize quantum entangled state with long-wavelength (infrared, IR or even terahertz, THz) photon, one needs to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Yiquan Yang , Peiyu Zhang , Xiao-Song Ma

In this review we present the potentialities and the achievements of the use of non-classical photon number correlations in twin beams (TWB) states for many applications, ranging from imaging to metrology. Photon number correlations in the…

In this paper we study the resolution of images illuminated by sources composed of $N+1$ photons in which one non-degenerate photon is entangled with $N$ degenerate photons. The $N$ degenerate photons illuminate an object and are collected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-12 Jianming Wen , Morton H. Rubin , Yanhua Shih

Quantum entanglement represents an ideal resource to guarantee the security of random numbers employed in many scientific and cryptographic applications. However, entanglement-based certified random number generators are particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-07 Nicolò Leone , Stefano Azzini , Sonia Mazzucchi , Valter Moretti , Lorenzo Pavesi

In this work, a theoretical generalization of Lloyd's quantum illumination to signal beams described by two entangled photon states is developed. It is shown that the new protocol offers a method to find the range of the target, reduces the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Ricardo Gallego Torromé , Nadya Ben Bekhti-Winkel , Peter Knott

We investigate the performance of entangled coherent state for quantum enhanced phase estimation. An exact analytical expression of quantum Fisher information is derived to show the role of photon losses on the ultimate phase sensitivity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-07 Y. M. Zhang , X. W. Li , W. Yang , G. R. Jin