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Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) enables visualization and quantitative extraction of the optical phase information of transparent samples. However, conventional QPI techniques typically rely on multi-frame acquisition or complex…

Determination of the path taken by a quantum particle leads to a suppression of interference and to a classical behavior. We employ here a quantum 'which path' detector to perform accurate path determination in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 I. Neder , M. Heiblum , D. Mahalu , V. Umansky

It is shown that a classical optical Fourier processor can be used for the shaping of quantum correlations between two or more photons, and the class of Fourier masks applicable in the multiphoton Fourier space is identified. This concept…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-22 Eilon Poem , Yehonatan Gilead , Yoav Lahini , Yaron Silberberg

Quantum spectroscopy seeks to probe chemical systems using nonclassical light, which has properties that are qualitatively and quantitatively different than conventional light sources. One promising technique uses intensity-correlated twin…

Phase retrieval in optical imaging refers to the recovery of a complex signal from phaseless data acquired in the form of its diffraction patterns. These patterns are acquired through a system with a coherent light source that employs a…

Iterative phase retrieval algorithms are widely used in digital optics for their efficiency and simplicity. Conventionally, these algorithms do not consider aberrations as they assume an ideal, aberration-free optical system. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-10 Dylan Brault , Corinne Fournier , Tatiana Latychevskaia

Extracting information from weak optical signals is a critical challenge across a broad range of technologies. Conventional imaging techniques, constrained to integrating over detected signals and classical post-processing, are limited in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Aleksandr Mokeev , Babak Saif , Mikhail D. Lukin , Johannes Borregaard

This paper considers the problem of sampling and reconstruction of a continuous-time sparse signal without assuming the knowledge of the sampling instants or the sampling rate. This topic has its roots in the problem of recovering multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Ayush Bhandari , Aurelien Bourquard , Ramesh Raskar

In X-ray phase contrast imaging, phase retrieval from intensity measurements is the key for further quantitative analysis and tomographic reconstructions. In this letter, we present a single-shot approach for quantitative phase retrieval in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-03 Wang Zhili , Liu Dalin

A pupil plane wavefront reconstruction procedure is proposed based on analysis of a sequence of focal plane images corresponding to a sequence of random pupil plane phase probes. The developed method provides the unique nontrivial solution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-13 Eugene Pluzhnik , Dan Sirbu , Ruslan Belikov , Eduardo Bendek , Vladimir N. Dudinov

Phase retrieval aims to recover a signal from magnitude or power spectra measurements. It is often addressed by considering a minimization problem involving a quadratic cost function. We propose a different formulation based on Bregman…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Pierre-Hugo Vial , Paul Magron , Thomas Oberlin , Cédric Févotte

This work studies phase retrieval for wave fields, aiming to recover the phase of an incoming wave from multi-plane intensity measurements behind different types of linear and nonlinear media. We show that unique phase retrieval can be…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-22 Yan Cheng , Kui Ren , Nathan Soedjak

Phase retrieval problems occur in a wide range of applications in physics and engineering. Usually, these problems consist in the recovery of an unknown signal from the magnitudes of its Fourier transform. In some applications, however, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Robert Beinert

Classical imaging works by scattering photons from an object to be imaged, and achieves resolution scaling as $1/\sqrt{t}$, with $t$ the imaging time. By contrast, the laws of quantum mechanics allow one to utilize quantum coherence to…

We study algorithms for solving quadratic systems of equations based on optimization methods over polytopes. Our work is inspired by a recently proposed convex formulation of the phase retrieval problem, which estimates the unknown signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Oussama Dhifallah , Christos Thrampoulidis , Yue M. Lu

We consider the quantum field theory for a scalar model of the electromagnetic field interacting with a system of two-level atoms. In this setting, we show that it is possible to uniquely determine the density of atoms from measurements of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Matti Lassas , Medet Nursultanov , Lauri Oksanen , John C. Schotland

The application of quantum computation to accelerate machine learning algorithms is one of the most promising areas of research in quantum algorithms. In this paper, we explore the power of quantum learning algorithms in solving an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Yusen Wu , Bujiao Wu , Jingbo Wang , Xiao Yuan

A quantum edge detector for image segmentation in optical environments is presented in this work. A Boolean version of the same detector is presented too. The quantum version of the new edge detector works with computational basis states,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-11 Mario Mastriani

Phase retrieval (PR) concerns the recovery of complex phases from complex magnitudes. We identify the connection between the difficulty level and the number and variety of symmetries in PR problems. We focus on the most difficult far-field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zhong Zhuang , David Yang , Felix Hofmann , David Barmherzig , Ju Sun

Quantum state tomography is a technique in quantum information science used to reconstruct the density matrix of an unknown quantum state, providing complete information about the quantum state. It is of significant importance in fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Wenlong Zhao , Da Zhang , Huili Zhang , Haifeng Yu , Zhang-qi Yin