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The continuous transition from a low resolution quantum nondemolition measurement of light field intensity to a precise measurement of photon number is described using a generalized measurement postulate. In the intermediate regime,…

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We suggest and demonstrate experimentally a strategy to obtain relevant information about a composite system by only performing measurements on a small and easily accessible part of it, which we call quantum probe. We show in particular how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-15 Andrea Smirne , Simone Cialdi , Giorgio Anelli , Matteo G. A. Paris , Bassano Vacchini

Analyses based on quantum metrology have shown that the ability to localize the positions of two incoherent point sources can be significantly enhanced through the use of mode sorting. Here we theoretically and experimentally investigate…

Quantum key distribution (QKD) theoretically offers unconditional security. Unfortunately, the gap between theory and practice threatens side-channel attacks on practical QKD systems. Many well-known QKD protocols use weak coherent laser…

We show that measuring dark matter signal by projecting quantum sensors in the collective excited state can highly suppress the non-collective noise background, hence improving the sensitivity significantly. We trace the evolution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Shion Chen , Hajime Fukuda , Yutaro Iiyama , Yuya Mino , Takeo Moroi , Mikio Nakahara , Tatsumi Nitta , Thanaporn Sichanugrist

Nonclassical states of light play a central role in many quantum information protocols. Their quantum features have been exploited to improve the readout of information from digital memories, modelled as arrays of microscopic beam splitters…

Quantum correlation of two-photon states has been utilized to suppress the environmental noise in imaging down to the single-photon level. However, the size of the coherence area of photon pairs limits the applications of quantum imaging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 Dianzhen Cui , X. X. Yi , Li-Ping Yang

Optical parametric oscillators are among the best-developed quantum light sources, having already been adopted in precision measurement and underpinning various quantum computing and communication paradigms. Meanwhile, progress in photonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Alex O. C. Davis , Alex I. Flint

Entanglement, a key feature of quantum mechanics, is recognized for its non-classical correlations which have been shown to provide significant noise resistance in single-photon rangefinding and communications. Drawing inspiration from the…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-16 Weijie Nie , Peide Zhang , Alex McMillan , Alex S. Clark , John G. Rarity

Inspired by works on information transmission through quantum channels, we propose the use of a couple of mutual entropies to quantify the efficiency of continual measurement schemes in extracting information on the measured quantum system.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-09 Albert Barchielli , Giancarlo Lupieri

We address the use of entangled qubits as quantum probes to characterize the noise induced by complex environments. In particular, we show that a joint measurement on entangled probes can improve estimation of the correlation time for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Matteo A. C. Rossi , Matteo G. A. Paris

Optical parametric down-conversion is a common source for the generation of non-classical correlated photonic states. Using a parametric down-conversion source and photon-number resolving detectors, we measure the two-mode photon-number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 L. Dovrat , M. Bakstein , D. Istrati , E. Megidish , A. Halevy , H. S. Eisenberg

We analyze the fundamental quantum limit of the resolution of an optical imaging system from the perspective of the detection problem of deciding whether the optical field in the image plane is generated by one incoherent on-axis source…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 Xiao-Ming Lu , Hari Krovi , Ranjith Nair , Saikat Guha , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

In quantum reading, a quantum state of light (transmitter) is applied to read classical information. In the presence of noise or for sufficiently weak signals, quantum reading can outperform classical reading by enhanced state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Wojciech Roga , Daniela Buono , Fabrizio Illuminati

Integrated entangled photon-pair sources are key elements for enabling large-scale quantum photonic solutions, and addresses the challenges of both scaling-up and stability. Here we report the first demonstration of an energy-time entangled…

A simple model system is introduced for demonstrating how a single photon source might be used to transduce classical analog information. The theoretical scheme results in measurements of analog source samples that are (i) quantized in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-26 Mark D. McDonnell , Adrian P. Flitney

Integrated entangled photon pair source is an essential resource for both fundamental investigations and practical applications of quantum information science. Currently there have been several types of entanglement, among which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-18 Lan-Tian Feng , Ming Zhang , Yang Chen , Guo-Ping Guo , Guang-Can Guo , Dao-Xin Dai , Xi-Feng Ren

Building upon the recently introduced particle interpretation of the double-slit experiment [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 133603 (2025)] which attributes interference phenomena to detector-coupled (bright) and detector-uncoupled (dark) states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Jian-Jian Cheng , Jun-Ling Che , Lin Zhang , Ming-Liang Hu

Quantum illumination is to discern the presence or absence of a low reflectivity target, where the error probability decays exponentially in the number of copies used. When the target reflectivity is small so that it is hard to distinguish…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-10 Dong Hwan Kim , Yonggi Jo , Duk Y. Kim , Taek Jeong , Jihwan Kim , Nam Hun Park , Zaeill Kim , Su-Yong Lee

We address the metrological problem of estimating collective stochastic properties imprinted on a network of quantum sensors. Canonical examples include center-of-mass quadrature fluctuations in a system of bosonic modes and correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Anthony J. Brady , Yu-Xin Wang , Victor V. Albert , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Quntao Zhuang