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System noise identification is crucial to the engineering of robust quantum systems. Although existing quantum noise spectroscopy (QNS) protocols measure an aggregate amount of noise affecting a quantum system, they generally cannot…

Quantum sensing, built upon fundamental quantum phenomena like entanglement and squeezing, is revolutionizing precision and sensitivity across diverse domains, including quantum metrology and imaging. Its impact is now stretching into radar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-24 Ricardo Gallego Torrome , Shabir Barzanjeh

Noise is one of the main obstacles to realizing quantum devices that achieve a quantum computational advantage. A possible approach to minimize the noise effect is to employ shallow-depth quantum circuits since noise typically accumulates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Changhun Oh

In a noisy environment with weak single levels, quantum illumination can outperform classical illumination in determining the presence and range of a target object even in the limit of sub-optimal measurements based on non-simultaneous,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Richard J. Murchie , Jonathan D. Pritchard , John Jeffers

Quantum sensing has become a mature and broad field. It is generally related with the idea of using quantum resources to boost the performance of a number of practical tasks, including the radar-like detection of faint objects, the readout…

The reliable characterization of quantum states is a fundamental task in quantum information science. For this purpose, quantum state tomography provides a standard framework for reconstructing quantum states from measurement data, yet it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yixuan Hu , Mengru Ma , Jiangwei Shang

Modern imaging technologies are widely based on classical principles of light or electromagnetic wave propagation. They can be remarkably sophisticated, with recent successes ranging from single molecule microscopy to imaging far-distant…

The quantum statistical fluctuations of the electromagnetic field establish a limit, known as the shot-noise limit, on the sensitivity of optical measurements performed with classical technologies. However, quantum technologies are not…

It has been discussed recently how quantum illumination can be used to increase the accuracy of the value range-delay measurement \cite{Zhuang Shapiro 2022} in the domain of SNR compatible with current radar systems. However, the advantage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Ricardo Gallego Torromé

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

Images captured in low-light environment often suffer from complex degradation. Simply adjusting light would inevitably result in burst of hidden noise and color distortion. To seek results with satisfied lighting, cleanliness, and realism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Qiming Hu , Xiaojie Guo

In the context of visual perception, the optical signal from a scene is transferred into the electronic domain by detectors in the form of image data, which are then processed for the extraction of visual information. In noisy and…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-07 Jungmin Kim , Nanfang Yu , Zongfu Yu

Scene inference under low-light is a challenging problem due to severe noise in the captured images. One way to reduce noise is to use longer exposure during the capture. However, in the presence of motion (scene or camera motion), longer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Bhavya Goyal , Jean-François Lalonde , Yin Li , Mohit Gupta

We use the quantum correlations of twin-beams of light to probe the added noise when one of the beams propagates through a medium with anomalous dispersion. The experiment is based on two successive four-wave mixing processes in rubidium…

Optomechanical sensors are capable of transducing external perturbations to resolvable optical signals. A particular regime of interest is that of high-bandwidth force detection, where an impulse is delivered to the system over a short…

Quantum tomography is the standard method of reconstructing the Wigner function of quantum states of light by means of balanced homodyne detection. The reconstruction quality strongly depends on the photodetectors quantum efficiency and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 E. Knyazev , K. Yu. Spasibko , M. V. Chekhova , F. Ya. Khalili

Even though measurement results obtained in the real world are generally both noisy and continuous, quantum measurement theory tends to emphasize the ideal limit of perfect precision and quantized measurement results. In this article, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Holger F. Hofmann

Quantum illumination is a quantum-optical sensing technique in which an entangled source is exploited to improve the detection of a low-reflectivity object that is immersed in a bright thermal background. Entangled sources between microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Biao Xiong , Xun Li , Xiao-Yu Wang , Ling Zhou

When one captures images in low-light conditions, the images often suffer from low visibility. This poor quality may significantly degrade the performance of many computer vision and multimedia algorithms that are primarily designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Xiaojie Guo

We investigate how distinguishability of a "noise" particle degrades interference of the "signal" particle. The signal, represented by an equatorial state of a photonic qubit, is mixed with noise, represented by another photonic qubit, via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-16 Miroslav Gavenda , Lucie Celechovska , Jan Soubusta , Miloslav Dusek , Radim Filip
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