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Computed tomography (CT) is an important imaging technique used in medical analysis of the internal structure of the human body. Previously, image segmentation methods were required after acquiring reconstructed CT images to obtain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Kyungtaek Jun

We develop a quantum statistical framework for passive optical surface metrology. Modelling a surface as an incoherent ensemble of point emitters imaged through a diffraction-limited system, we employ techniques from quantum parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Jernej Frank , George Brumpton , Tommaso Tufarelli , Gerardo Adesso , Samanta Piano

The ability to completely characterize the state of a quantum system is an essential element for the emerging quantum technologies. Here, we present a compressed-sensing inspired method to ascertain any rank-deficient qudit state, which we…

Quantum entangled states of light are essential for quantum technologies and fundamental tests of physics. While quantum information science has relied on systems with entanglement in 2D degrees of freedom, e.g. quantum bits with…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-06 Matthew Reichert , Hugo Defienne , Jason W. Fleischer

We propose a new type of the Unruh-DeWitt detector which measures the decoherence of the reduced density matrix of the detector interacting with the massless quantum scalar field. We find that the decoherence decay rates are different in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 Alexander I Nesterov , Gennady P Berman , Manuel A Rodríguez Fernández , Xidi Wang

This paper proposes a machine learning method to characterize photonic states via a simple optical circuit and data processing of photon number distributions, such as photonic patterns. The input states consist of two coherent states used…

Ptychography is a computational imaging technique mainly used in optical and electron microscopy. Its quantum analogue was recently introduced as a simple method for estimating unknown pure quantum states through projections onto partially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 A. M. da Costa , L. Neves

Quantum sensing exploits quantum phenomena to enhance the detection and estimation of classical parameters of physical systems and biological entities, particularly so as to overcome the inefficiencies of its classical counterparts. A…

Quantum Reservoir Computing (QRC) leverages the natural dynamics of quantum systems for information processing, without requiring a fault-tolerant quantum computer. In this work, we apply QRC within a hybrid quantum classical framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Soumyadip Das , Luke Antoncich , Jingbo B. Wang

After a review of the existing theory of non-inertial frames and mathematical observers in Minkowski space-time we give the explicit expression of a family of such frames obtained from the inertial ones by means of point-dependent Lorentz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Horace W. Crater , Luca Lusanna

A novel quantum imaging technique has recently been demonstrated in an experiment, where the photon used for illuminating an object is not detected; the image is obtained by interfering two beams, none of which ever interacts with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-06 Mayukh Lahiri , Radek Lapkiewicz , Gabriela Barreto Lemos , Anton Zeilinger

Quantum interferometry methods exploit quantum resources, such as photonic entanglement, to enhance phase estimation beyond classical limits. Nonlinear optics has served as a workhorse for the generation of entangled photon pairs, ensuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Romain Dalidet , Anthony Martin , Grégory Sauder , Laurent Labonté , Sébastien Tanzilli

We suggest a general scheme for quantum state engineering based on conditional measurements carried out on entangled twin-beam of radiation. Realistic detection schemes such as {\sc on/off} photodetection, homodyne detection and joint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Matteo G. A. Paris , Mary Cola , Rodolfo Bonifacio

Quantum correlation, such as entanglement and squeezing have shown to improve phase estimation in interferometric setups on one side, and non-interferometric imaging scheme of amplitude object on the other. In the last case, quantum…

Quantum entanglement plays a pivotal role in various quantum information processing tasks. However, there still lacks a universal and effective way to detecting entanglement structures, especially for high-dimensional and multipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Rui Li , Junling Du , Zheng Qin , Shikun Zhang , Chunxiao Du , Yang Zhou , Zhisong Xiao

We propose a method for optical interferometry in telescope arrays assisted by quantum networks. In our approach, the quantum state of incoming photons along with an arrival time index is stored in a binary qubit code at each receiver.…

We consider entanglement extraction into two two-level Unruh-DeWitt detectors from a vacuum of a neutral massless quantum scalar field in a four-dimensional spacetime, where the general monopole coupling to the scalar field is assumed.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-11 Jun-ichirou Koga , Gen Kimura , Kengo Maeda

Entanglement constitutes a key characteristic feature of quantum matter. Its detection, however, still faces major challenges. In this letter, we formulate a framework for probing entanglement based on machine learning techniques. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Jun Yong Khoo , Markus Heyl

In quantum metrology schemes, one generally needs to prepare $m$ copies of $N$ entangled particles, such as entangled photon states, and then they are detected in a destructive process to estimate an unknown parameter. Here, we present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yu-Ran Zhang , Jie-Dong Yue , Heng Fan

In this contribution we describe some interesting interplay between quantum theory, general relativity and thermodynamics. In order to highlight the connection between these theories, we describe two approaches that allow to calculate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-28 Giovanni Acquaviva