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Photonic processors have emerged as an attractive platform for fast and energy-efficient matrix-vector multiplication. However, they are susceptible to error due to their analog nature. Here, we present an error-correction technique that…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-23 Adam Carstensen , Babak Vosoughi Lahijani

Photon number resolving (PNR) measurements are beneficial or even necessary for many applications in quantum optics. Unfortunately, PNR detectors are usually large, slow, expensive, and difficult to operate. However, if the input signal is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Nicholas M. Sullivan , Boris Braverman , Jeremy Upham , Robert W. Boyd

Quantum error correcting codes protect quantum information, allowing for large quantum computations provided that physical error rates are sufficiently low. We combine post-selection with surface code error correction through the use of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Samuel C. Smith , Benjamin J. Brown , Stephen D. Bartlett

With the progress of optical detection technology, the classical diffraction limit raised a hundred years ago has been continuously broken through. In previous experiments within fluorescence sources, one of the techniques used is detecting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Xiao Liang , Yong-Sheng Zhang

Homodyne detection is considered as a way to improve the efficiency of communication near the single-photon level. The current lack of commercially available {\it infrared} photon-number detectors significantly reduces the mutual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Nemoto , S. L. Braunstein

Image classification is a core task of intelligent sensing, conventionally follows a sequential imaging then processing pipeline. However, redundant high-dimensional image reconstruction is inherently inefficient, especially in photon…

Single-photon detection and photon counting play a central role in a large number of quantum communication and computation protocols. While the efficiency of state-of-the-art photo-detectors is well below the desired limits, quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Imamoglu

Quantum sensing exploits quantum phenomena to enhance the detection and estimation of classical parameters of physical systems and biological entities, particularly so as to overcome the inefficiencies of its classical counterparts. A…

Quantum computational approaches to some classic target identification and localization algorithms, especially for radar images, are investigated, and are found to raise a number of quantum statistics and quantum measurement issues with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Peter B. Weichman

Neuromorphic processors improve the efficiency of machine learning algorithms through the implementation of physical artificial neurons to perform computations. However, whilst efficient classical neuromorphic processors have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Sam Nerenberg , Oliver D. Neill , Giulia Marcucci , Daniele Faccio

Photon loss rates set an effective upper limit on the size of computations that can be run on current linear optical quantum devices. We present a family of techniques designed to mitigate the effects of photon loss on both output…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 James Mills , Rawad Mezher

Quantum error correction is one of the fundamental building blocks of digital quantum computation. The Quantum Lego formalism has introduced a systematic way of constructing new stabilizer codes out of basic lego-like building blocks, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Yariv Yanay

Image processing on quantum platform is a hot topic for researchers now a day. Inspired from the idea of quantum physics, researchers are trying to shift their focus from classical image processing towards quantum image processing.This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Sanjay Chakraborty , Sudhindu Bikash Mandal , Soharab Hossain Shaikh

The image reconstruction of partially coherent light is interpreted as the quantum state reconstruction. The efficient method based on maximum-likelihood estimation is proposed to acquire information from registered intensity measurements…

Optics · Physics 2011-07-22 M. Jezek , Z. Hradil

The advantage that many quantum algorithms have over their classical counterparts may be lost when the results are extracted as classical data (output problem). One example are eigenpair solvers, which encode the eigenpairs in a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Sven Danz

We investigate optimal encoding and retrieval of digital data, when the storage/communication medium is described by quantum mechanics. We assume an m-ary alphabet with arbitrary prior distribution, and an n-dimensional quantum system.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Noam Elron , Yonina C. Eldar

Shadow tomography aims to build a classical description of a quantum state from a sequence of simple random measurements. Physical observables are then reconstructed from the resulting classical shadow. Shadow protocols which use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Sumner N. Hearth , Michael O. Flynn , Anushya Chandran , Chris R. Laumann

The classification of complex data usually requires the composition of processing steps. Here, a major challenge is the selection of optimal algorithms for preprocessing and classification (including parameterizations). Nowadays, parts of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Mario Michael Krell

Weak quantum measurements enable real-time tracking and control of dynamical quantum systems, producing quantum trajectories -- evolutions of the quantum state of the system conditioned on measurement outcomes. For classical systems, the…

Optimization approaches are ubiquitous in physics. In optics, they are key to manipulating light through complex media, enabling applications ranging from imaging to photonic simulators. In most demonstrations, however, the optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Baptiste Courme , Chloé Vernière , Malo Joly , Daniele Faccio , Sylvain Gigan , Hugo Defienne