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We describe a sounding technique that allows us to improve spatial resolution of Irkutsk Incoherent Scatter Radar without loosing spectral resolution. The technique is based on transmitting of rectangle pulses of different duration in…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Oleg I. Berngardt , Dmitry S. Kushnarev

We consider distributed sensing of non-local quantities. We introduce quantum enhanced protocols to directly measure any (scalar) field with a specific spatial dependence by placing sensors at appropriate positions and preparing a spatially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Pavel Sekatski , Sabine Wölk , Wolfgang Dür

The low frequency region of the spectrum is a challenging regime for quantum probes. We support the idea that, in this regime, performing Ramsey measurements carefully controlling the time at which each measurement is initiated is an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Santiago Oviedo-Casado , Javier Prior , Javier Cerrillo

The resolution of separation of two elementary signals forming a partially coherent superposition, defined by quantum Fisher information and normalised with respect to detection probabilities, is always limited by the resolution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 Zdeněk Hradil , Dominik Koutný , Jaroslav Řeháček

The inherent non-linearity of intensity correlation functions can be used to spatially distinguish identical emitters beyond the diffraction limit, as achieved, for example, in Super-Resolution Optical Fluctuation Imaging (SOFI). Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-18 Yifan Chen , Chieh Tsao , Hendrik Utzat

Far-field optical imaging inevitably involves low-pass spatial filtering, limiting the resolution. Moreover, conventional imaging suppresses high spatial frequency components close to the cutoff, making them invisible under noise,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Li Gong , Aonan Zhang , Madhura Ghosh Dastidar , Alexander Duplinskii , A. I. Lvovsky

Rayleigh's criterion states that it becomes essentially difficult to resolve two incoherent optical point sources separated by a distance below the width of point spread functions (PSF), namely in the subdiffraction limit. Recently,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Sisi Zhou , Liang Jiang

Precision measurement has been an important research area in sensing and metrology. In classical physics, the Fisher information determines the maximum extractable information from statistically unknown signals, based on a joint probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Byoung S. Ham

The Rayleigh criterion has long served as a fundamental limit for the resolution of optical imaging. Recent advances in multiparameter quantum metrology have led to quantum superresolution that can break this limit and achieve nonvanishing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Junyan Li , Shengshi Pang

We provide the optimal measurement strategy for a class of noisy channels that reduce to the identity channel for a specific value of a parameter (spreading channels). We provide an example that is physically relevant: the estimation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Wojciech Górecki , Alberto Riccardi , Lorenzo Maccone

Superposition and entanglement, the quintessential characteristics of quantum physics, have been shown to provide communication, computation, and sensing capabilities that go beyond what classical physics will permit. It is natural,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Jeffrey H. Shapiro

In this paper, an explicit expression for the maximum detection range of an entangled quantum two-mode squeezed (QTMS) radar, in which a two-mode squeezed vacuum state of microwave electromagnetic fields is used, have been derived by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 H. Allahverdi , Ali Motazedifard

In this work we consider the problem of identification and reconstruction of doubly-dispersive channel operators which are given by finite linear combinations of time-frequency shifts. Such operators arise as time-varying linear systems for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Robert Beinert , Peter Jung , Gabriele Steidl , Tom Szollmann

In this study, we explore an approach aimed at enhancing the transmission or reflection coefficients of absorbing materials through the utilization of joint measurements of entangled photon states. On the one hand, through the…

Quantum-enhanced phase estimation paves the way to ultra-precision sensing and is of great realistic significance. In this paper we investigate theoretically the estimation of a second-order nonlinear phase shift using a coherent state and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Jian-Dong Zhang , Zi-Jing Zhang , Long-Zhu Cen , Jun-Yan Hu , Yuan Zhao

Quantum metrology of an incoherent signal is a canonical sensing problem related to superresolution and noise spectroscopy. We show that quantum computing can accelerate searches for a weak incoherent signal when the signal and noise are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 James W. Gardner , Federico Belliardo , Gideon Lee , Tuvia Gefen , Liang Jiang

Photon superbunching, distinguished by second-order coherence values far exceeding the Gaussian thermal limit, represents a highly desirable resource for quantum optics and correlation-based imaging technologies. However, existing…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-24 Qiang Ji , Yuxi Pang , Weiming Zhang , Xian Zhao , Zengguang Qin , Zhaojun Liu , Yanping Xu

Quantum metrology has been shown to surpass classical limits of correlation, resolution, and sensitivity. It has been introduced to interferometric Radar schemes, with intriguing preliminary results. Even quantum-inspired detection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Leonid Vidro , Liran Shirizly , Naftali Kirsh , Nadav Katz , Hagai S. Eisenberg

For more than a century, the diffraction limit has defined the resolution achievable by passive optical imaging systems. Although some resolution improvement can be gained through classical data processing of the image, it is limited by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 A. I. Lvovsky , Michael R. Grace , Saikat Guha , Mankei Tsang , Gerardo Adesso , Nicolas Treps

Coherent illumination reflected by a remote target may be secondarily scattered by intermediate objects or materials. Here we show that phase retrieval on remotely observed images of such scattered fields enables imaging of the illuminated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Qian Huang , Zhipeng Dong , Yuzuru Takashima , Timothy J. Schulz , David J. Brady