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The output of a photodetector consists of a current pulse whose charge has the statistical distribution of the actual photon numbers convolved with a Bernoulli distribution. Photodetectors are characterized by a nonunit quantum efficiency,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 G. Zambra , M. G. A. Paris

We show a general method to estimate with optimum precision, i.e., the best precision determined by the light-matter interaction process, a set of parameters that characterize a phase object. The method derives from ideas presented by Pezze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Arturo Villegas , Marcello H. M. Passos , Silvania F. Pereira , Juan P. Torres

While detection of optical photons is today achieved with very high efficiencies, the detection of microwave fields at the photon level still poses non-trivial experimental challenges. In this Letter we propose a model of microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Shabir Barzanjeh , M. C. de Oliveira , Stefano Pirandola

Quantum sensing with undetected photons is a technique where photons of one wavelength probe a sample, but information is extracted by measuring photons of another wavelength that never interacts with the sample. This has seen significant…

The problem of optimally measuring an analytic function of unknown local parameters each linearly coupled to a qubit sensor is well understood, with applications ranging from field interpolation to noise characterization. Here, we resolve a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Jacob Bringewatt , Adam Ehrenberg , Tarushii Goel , Alexey V. Gorshkov

State estimation is crucial for the performance and safety of numerous robotic applications. Among the suite of estimation techniques, particle filters have been identified as a powerful solution due to their non-parametric nature. Yet, in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Akhilan Boopathy , Aneesh Muppidi , Peggy Yang , Abhiram Iyer , William Yue , Ila Fiete

The ultimate sensitivity of optical measurements is a key element of many recent works. Classically, it is mainly limited by the shot noise limit. However, a measurement setup that incorporates quantum mechanical principles can surpass the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 L. Cohen , D. Istrati , L. Dovrat , H. S. Eisenberg

We propose a high-precision phase estimation scheme in a hybrid interferometer by synergistically combining a Kerr nonlinear phase shifter and multi-photon subtraction operations. Using a coherent state and a vacuum state as input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Lifen Guo , Qingqian Kang , Zekun Zhao , Jifeng Sun , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Xin Su , Liyun Hu

The fidelity susceptibility serves as a universal probe for quantum phase transitions, offering an order-parameter-free metric that captures ground-state sensitivity to Hamiltonian perturbations and exhibits critical scaling. Classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yukun Zhang , Xiao Yuan

We show a simple yet effective method that can be used to characterize the per pixel quantum efficiency and temporal resolution of a single photon event camera for quantum imaging applications. Utilizing photon pairs generated through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-23 Victor Vidyapin , Yingwen Zhang , Duncan England , Benjamin Sussman

We present a fully parameter-free density-functional approach for the accurate description of optical absorption spectra of insulators, semiconductors and metals. We show that this can be achieved within time-dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 J. A. Berger

Editing flat-looking images into stunning photographs requires skill and time. Automated image enhancement algorithms have attracted increased interest by generating high-quality images without user interaction. However, the quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Heewon Kim , Kyoung Mu Lee

Assume a (semi)parametrically efficient estimator is given of the Euclidean parameter in a (semi)parametric model. A submodel is obtained by constraining this model in that a continuously differentiable function of the Euclidean parameter…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-27 Chris A. J. Klaassen , Nanang Susyanto

Several SLAM methods benefit from the use of semantic information. Most integrate photometric methods with high-level semantics such as object detection and semantic segmentation. We propose that adding a semantic segmentation decoder in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Gabriel S. Gama , Nícolas S. Rosa , Valdir Grassi

Following the presentation and proof of the hypothesis that image features are particularly perceived at points where the Fourier components are maximally in phase, the concept of phase congruency (PC) is introduced. Subsequently, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-08 Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Alavi , Yunyan Zhang

Recently, deep learning-based denoising approaches have led to dramatic improvements in low sample-count Monte Carlo rendering. These approaches are aimed at path tracing, which is not ideal for simulating challenging light transport…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Shilin Zhu , Zexiang Xu , Henrik Wann Jensen , Hao Su , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Terahertz (THz) sensing is a promising imaging technology for a wide variety of different applications. Extracting the interpretable and physically meaningful parameters for such applications, however, requires solving an inverse problem in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Tak Ming Wong , Matthias Kahl , Peter Haring Bolívar , Andreas Kolb , Michael Möller

This study introduces a novel unsupervised medical image feature extraction method that employs spatial stratification techniques. An objective function based on weight is proposed to achieve the purpose of fast image recognition. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Qishi Zhan , Dan Sun , Erdi Gao , Yuhan Ma , Yaxin Liang , Haowei Yang

Quantum imaging exploits the spatial correlations between photons to image object features with a higher resolution than a corresponding classical light source could achieve. Using a quantum correlated $N$-photon state, the method of…

Recently, the Hilbert-Schmidt speed, as a special class of quantum statistical speed, has been reported to improve the interferometric phase in single-parameter quantum estimation. Here, we test this concept in the multiparameter scenario…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Nour-Eddine Abouelkhir , Abdallah Slaoui , Hanane El Hadfi , Rachid Ahl Laamara