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A minimally-invasive way to detect the presence of a stealth target is to probe it with a single photon and analyze the reflected signals. The efficiency of such a conventional detection scheme can potentially be enhanced by the method of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Man-Hong Yung , Fei Meng , Ming-Jing Zhao

In a standard Quantum Sensing (QS) task one aims at estimating an unknown parameter $\theta$, encoded into an $n$-qubit probe state, via measurements of the system. The success of this task hinges on the ability to correlate changes in the…

Quantum computing holds potential for accelerating the simulation of fluid dynamics. However, hardware noise in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era significantly distorts simulation accuracy. Although error magnitudes are frequently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Jiahua Yang , Zhen Lu , Yue Yang

A framework for a quantum information theory is introduced that is based on the measure of quantum information associated with probability distribution predicted by quantum measuring of state. The entanglement between states of measured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yi-Xin Chen

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

In hypothesis testing with quantum states, given a black box containing one of the two possible states, measurement is performed to detect in favor of one of the hypotheses. In postselected hypothesis testing, a third outcome is added,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Saurabh Kumar Gupta , Abhishek K. Gupta

In this perspective we discuss verification of quantum devices in the context of specific examples, formulated as proposed experiments. Our first example is verification of analog quantum simulators as Hamiltonian learning, where the input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-12 Jose Carrasco , Andreas Elben , Christian Kokail , Barbara Kraus , Peter Zoller

Quantum state discrimination plays a central role in quantum information and communication. For the discrimination of optical quantum states, the two most widely adopted measurement techniques are photon detection, which produces discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 James Moran , Spiros Kechrimparis , Hyukjoon Kwon

The density matrix in quantum mechanics parameterizes the statistical properties of the system under observation, just like a classical probability distribution does for classical systems. The expectation value of observables cannot be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-01 K. Temme , F. Verstraete

We outline a proposal to test quantum mechanics in the high-complexity regime using noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. The procedure involves simulating a non-Clifford random circuit, followed by its inverse, and then checking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-26 Kevin Slagle

Noise is the main obstacle for the realization of fault tolerant quantum information processing and secure communication over long distances. In this work, we propose a communication protocol relying on simple linear optics that optimally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Mikael Lassen , Adriano Berni , Lars S. Madsen , Radim Filip , Ulrik L. Andersen

The variational quantum imaginary time evolution algorithm is efficient in finding the ground state of a quantum Hamiltonian. This algorithm involves solving a system of linear equations in a classical computer and the solution is then used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Gaurav Saxena , Ahmed Shalabi , Thi Ha Kyaw

In recent years, there has been a great effort to prove the security of quantum key distribution (QKD) with a minimum number of assumptions. Besides its intrinsic theoretical interest, this would allow for larger tolerance against device…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Kiyoshi Tamaki , Marcos Curty , Marco Lucamarini

We prove that Gaussian thermal input states minimize the output von Neumann entropy of the one-mode Gaussian quantum-limited attenuator for fixed input entropy. The Gaussian quantum-limited attenuator models the attenuation of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Giacomo De Palma , Dario Trevisan , Vittorio Giovannetti

I. This paper is devoted to the problem of error detection with quantum codes. In the first part we examine possible problem settings for quantum error detection. Our goal is to derive a functional that describes the probability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei Ashikhmin , Alexander Barg , Emanuel Knill , Simon Litsyn

Enhancing quantum illumination with highly entangled probes remains an active area of research. In this context, non-Gaussian operations provide an effective route for engineering probe states that can surpass the standard two-mode squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Luis D. Zambrano Palma , Yusef Maleki , M. Suhail Zubairy

We present a review on the historic development of the decoy state method, including the background, principles, methods, results and development. We also clarify some delicate concepts. Given an imperfect source and a very lossy channel,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Xiang-Bin Wang

We provide general sufficient conditions for the efficient classical simulation of quantum-optics experiments that involve inputting states to a quantum process and making measurements at the output. The first condition is based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-23 Saleh Rahimi-Keshari , Timothy C. Ralph , Carlton M. Caves

Identifying Hamiltonian of a quantum system is of vital importance for quantum information processing. In this Letter, we realized and benchmarked a quantum Hamiltonian identification algorithm recently proposed [Phys. Rev. Lett.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Shi-yao Hou , Hang Li , Gui-Lu Long

This research note II introduces a way to understand a basic concept of the quantum enigma cipher. The conventional cipher is designed by a mathematical algorithm and its security is evaluated by the complexity of the algorithm in security…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 Osamu Hirota