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The noise in absorption imaging of cold atoms significantly impacts measurement accuracy across a range of applications with ultracold atoms. It is crucial to adopt an approach that offers effective denoising capabilities without…

Quantum illumination is a powerful sensing technique that employs entangled signal-idler photon pairs to boost the detection efficiency of low-reflectivity objects in environments with bright thermal noise. The promised advantage over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 S. Barzanjeh , S. Pirandola , D. Vitali , J. M. Fink

In quantum illumination entangled light is employed to enhance the detection accuracy of an object when compared with the best classical protocol. On the other hand, cloaking is a stealth technology based on covering a target with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-06 U. Las Heras , R. Di Candia , K. G. Fedorov , F. Deppe , M. Sanz , E. Solano

We propose a quantum interface protocol based on two quantum-non-demolition interactions (QND) arranged either in sequence or in parallel. Since the QND coupling arises naturally in interactions between light and a macroscopic ensemble of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Petr Marek , Radim Filip

Quantum-enhanced sensing has a goal of enhancing a parameter sensitivity with input quantum states, while quantum illumination has a goal of enhancing a target detection capability with input entangled states in a heavy noise environment.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Su-Yong Lee , Yong Sup Ihn , Zaeill Kim

We propose a method to mitigate measurement errors in the distribution counts of a Quantum computer using image contrast filters. This work is similar to the method described by Gambetta and colleagues in [1]; however our technique does not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Wladimir Silva

Low fluence illumination sources can facilitate clinical transition of photoacoustic imaging because they are rugged, portable, affordable, and safe. However, these sources also decrease image quality due to their low fluence. Here, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Ali Hariri , Kamran Alipour , Yash Mantri , Jurgen P. Schulze , Jesse V. Jokerst

Entanglement is vulnerable to degradation in a noisy sensing scenario, but surprisingly, the quantum illumination protocol has demonstrated that its advantage can survive. However, designing a measurement system that realizes this advantage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Jacopo Angeletti , Haowei Shi , Theerthagiri Lakshmanan , David Vitali , Quntao Zhuang

One of the challenges of quantum technologies is realising the quantum advantage, predicted for ideal systems, in real applications, which have to cope with decoherence and inefficiencies. In quantum metrology, sub-shot-noise imaging (SSNI)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 I. Ruo Berchera , A. Meda , E. Losero , A. Avella , N. Samantaray , M. Genovese

We consider the general problem of the quantum noise in a multipixel measurement of an optical image. We first give a precise criterium in order to characterize intrinsic single mode and multimode light. Then, using a transverse mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nicolas Treps , Vincent Delaubert , Agnes Maitre , Jean-Michel Courty , Claude Fabre

A novel method of contrast enhancement is proposed for underexposed images, in which heavy noise is hidden. Under low light conditions, images taken by digital cameras have low contrast in dark or bright regions. This is due to a limited…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Chien-Cheng Chien , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

Noise is a significant challenge in imaging. Conventional intensity-based techniques mitigate noise through various filtering methods, but they often require prior knowledge of noise characteristics and struggle, especially under low-light…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-12 Pranay Mohta , Keval Moliya , Aniket Nag , Shaurya Aarav , Anand Kumar Jha

Proofs of the quantum advantage available in imaging or detecting objects under quantum illumination can rely on optimal measurements without specifying what they are. We use the continuous-variable Gaussian quantum information formalism to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Hao Yang , Wojciech Roga , Jonathan D. Pritchard , John Jeffers

In this Letter, the quantum correlation measurement technique as a method of power noise monitoring is investigated. Its principal idea of correlating two photodetector signals is introduced and contrasted to the conventional approach,…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-02 Jasper Robert Venneberg , Benno Willke

By harnessing the quantum states of light for illumination, precise phase and absorption estimations can be achieved with precision beyond the standard quantum limit. Despite their significance for precision measurements, quantum states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Ming Li , Chang-Ling Zou , Di Liu , Guo-Ping Guo , Guang-Can Guo , Xi-Feng Ren

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

In Quantum Illumination (QI), a signal beam initially entangled with an idler beam held at the receiver interrogates a target region bathed in thermal background light. The returned beam is measured jointly with the idler in order to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 Ranjith Nair , Mile Gu

Lloyd [1] proved that a large performance gain accrues from use of entanglement in single-photon target detection within a lossy, noisy environment when compared to what can be achieved with unentangled single-photon states. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jeffrey H. Shapiro , Seth Lloyd

We propose a quantum error correction-like noise mitigation protocol for enhancing the sensitivity of wave-like dark matter searches with quantum sensors. Our protocol uses multiple sensors to mitigate the noise affecting each sensor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-06 Hajime Fukuda , Takeo Moroi , Thanaporn Sichanugrist

The quantum illumination technique requires joint measurement between the idler and the probe reflected from the low-reflective target present in a noisy environment. The joint measurement is only possible with prior knowledge about the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Sankar Davuluri , Greeshma Gopinath , Matt J. Woolley