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Quantum illumination is an entanglement-based target detection protocol that provides quantum advantages despite the presence of entanglement-breaking noise. However, the advantage of traditional quantum illumination protocols is limited to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Xiaobin Zhao , Zheshen Zhang , Quntao Zhuang

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

Quantum noise constitutes a fundamental obstacle to realizing practical quantum technologies. To address the pivotal challenge of identifying quantum systems least affected by noise, we introduce the purest quantum state identification,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Yingqi Yu , Honglin Chen , Jun Wu , Wei Xie , Xiangyang Li

In order to leverage the full power of quantum noise squeezing with unavoidable decoherence, a complete understanding of the degradation in the purity of squeezed light is demanded. By implementing machine learning architecture with a…

Quantum illumination leverages entangled lights to detect the presence of low-reflectivity objects within a thermal environment. In a related vein, quantum parameter estimation utilizes nonclassical probes to precisely determine unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Wei Zhong , Dong-Qing Wang , Wen-Yi Zhu , Lan Zhou , Ming-Ming Du , Yu-Bo Sheng

We show with explicit formulas that one can completely identify an unknown quantum process with only one weakly entangled state; and identify a quantum optical Gaussian process with either one two-mode squeezed state or a few different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 Xiang-Bin Wang , J. -Z. Hu , Z. -W. Yu , Franco Nori

In quantum illumination, the signal mode of light, entangled with an idler mode, is dispatched towards a suspected object bathed in thermal noise and the returning mode, along with the stored idler mode, is measured to determine the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Ashwith Varadaraj Prabhu , Baladitya Suri , C. M. Chandrashekar

It is shown that quantum illumination with three photons non-Gaussian states, where the signal is described by a two photons state and the idler is described by a one photon state, can outperform in sensitivity standard Gaussian quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Ricardo Gallego Torromé

A quantum illumination protocol exploits correlated light beams to enhance the probability of detection of a partially reflecting object lying in a very noisy background. Recently a simple photon-number-detection based implementation of a…

Quantum metrology exploits entangled states of particles to improve sensing precision beyond the limit achievable with uncorrelated particles. All previous methods required detection noise levels below this standard quantum limit to realize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 O. Hosten , R. Krishnakumar , N. J. Engelsen , M. A. Kasevich

We investigate different quantum parameter estimation scenarios in the presence of noise, and identify optimal probe states. For frequency estimation of local Hamiltonians with dephasing noise, we determine optimal probe states for up to 70…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-10 F. Fröwis , M. Skotiniotis , B. Kraus , W. Dür

The quantum discrimination of two non-coherent states draws much attention recently. In this letter, we first consider the quantum discrimination of two noiseless displaced number states. Then we derive the Fock representation of noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-10 Renzhi Yuan , Julian Cheng

The effectiveness of quantum illumination (QI) of a lossy target is investigated in a realistic setting in which the signal sequentially interacts with a noisy environment and the target. The target is considered at a temperature distinct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Shilpi Srivastava , Shubhrangshu Dasgupta

We address the problem of distinguishing among a finite collection of quantum states, when the states are not entirely known. For completely specified states, necessary and sufficient conditions on a quantum measurement minimizing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Noam Elron , Yonina C. Eldar

In a quantum illumination (QI) protocol, the task is to detect the presence of the target which is typically modelled by a partially reflecting beam splitter. We analyze the performance of QI when the target absorbs part of the light that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Rivu Gupta , Saptarshi Roy , Tamoghna Das , Aditi Sen De

Quantum illumination (QI) provides entanglement-enabled target-detection enhancement, despite operating in an entanglement-breaking environment. Existing experimental studies of QI have utilized a Bayesian approach, assuming that the target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 William Ward , Abdulkarim Hariri , Zheshen Zhang

Discriminating between quantum states is a fundamental problem in quantum information protocols. The optimum approach saturates the Helstrom bound, which quantifies the unavoidable error probability of mistaking one state for another.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Shannon Ray , James Schneeloch , Christopher C. Tison , Paul M. Alsing

In analyses of target detection with Gaussian state transmitters in a thermal background, the thermal occupation is taken to depend on the target reflectivity in a way which simplifies the analysis of the symmetric quantum hypothesis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 T. J. Volkoff

Applying a multiphoton-subtraction technique to two-color macroscopic squeezed vacuum state of light generated via high-gain parametric down conversion we conditionally prepare a new state of light: bright multi-mode low-noise twin beams.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Timur Sh. Iskhakov , Vladyslav C. Usenko , Radim Filip , Maria V. Chekhova , Gerd Leuchs

The optimal discrimination of non-orthogonal quantum states with minimum error probability is a fundamental task in quantum measurement theory as well as an important primitive in optical communication. In this work, we propose and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Wittmann , M. Takeoka , K. N. Cassemiro , M. Sasaki , G. Leuchs , U. L. Andersen