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Quantum sensing with qubits has advanced fundamental physics searches, but higher dimensional systems offer untapped potential. We present a universal qutrit framework that yields a sequence-independent fourfold increase in quantum Fisher…

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We consider simultaneously identifying the membership and locations of point sources that are convolved with different low-pass point spread functions, from the observation of their superpositions. This problem arises in three-dimensional…

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We consider the problem of estimating the spatial separation between two mutually incoherent point light sources using the super-resolution imaging technique based on spatial mode demultiplexing with noisy detectors. We show that in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-26 Yink Loong Len , Chandan Datta , Michał Parniak , Konrad Banaszek

Achieving resolution in the sub-Rayleigh regime (superresolution) is one of the rapidly developing topics in quantum optics and metrology. Recently, it was shown that perfect measurement based on spatial mode demultiplexing (SPADE) in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Konrad Schlichtholz , Łukasz Rudnicki

The ability to determine precisely the separation of two frequencies is fundamental to spectroscopy, yet the resolution limit poses a critical challenge: distinguishing two incoherent signals becomes impossible when their frequencies are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Qingyun Cao , Genko T. Genov , Yaoming Chu , Jianming Cai , Yu Liu , Alex Retzker , Fedor Jelezko

Super-resolution estimation is the problem of recovering a stream of spikes (point sources) from the noisy observation of a few numbers of its first trigonometric moments. The performance of super-resolution is recognized to be intimately…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Maxime Ferreira Da Costa , Urbashi Mitra

The double-slit interferometer and the Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) with balanced beam splitters are prototypical setups for investigating the quantum wave-particle duality. These setups induced a quantitative association of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Diego S. S. Chrysosthemos , Marcos L. W. Basso , Jonas Maziero

Quantum metrology is a science about quantum measurements and it plays a key role in precision of quantum parameter estimation. Meanwhile, quantum coherence is an important quantum feature and quantum Fisher information (QFI) is an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Jun-Long Zhao , Li Yu , Ming Yang , Chui-Ping Yang

The quantum Fisher information matrix is a central object in multiparameter quantum estimation theory. It is usually challenging to obtain analytical expressions for it because most calculation methods rely on the diagonalization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-07 Lukas J. Fiderer , Tommaso Tufarelli , Samanta Piano , Gerardo Adesso

We show that the construction of the linear interferometer in the Supplemental Material of arXiv:1909.09581 is flawed, leading to a generally suboptimal solution. We then provide the correct derivation of the optimal interferometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 George Brumpton , Aiman Khan , Helia Hooshmand , Samanta Piano , Gerardo Adesso

We propose to use multi-photon interferences from statistically independent light sources in combination with linear optical detection techniques to enhance the resolution in imaging. Experimental results with up to five independent thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-15 Steffen Oppel , Thomas Büttner , Pieter Kok , Joachim von Zanthier

In this work, a fast Bilateral Solver for Quality Estimation Based multi-focus Image Fusion method (BS-QEBIF) is proposed. The all-in-focus image is generated by pixel-wise summing up the multi-focus source images with their focus-levels…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Jingwei Guan , Yibo Chen , Wai-kuen Cham

Quantum super-resolution involves resolving two sources below the Rayleigh limit using quantum optics. Such a technique would allow high-precision inter-satellite positioning and tracking on communication and navigation constellations. Due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Ronakraj K Gosalia , Robert Malaney , Ryan Aguinaldo , Jonathan Green

Integrated photonics has recently become a leading platform for the realization and processing of optical entangled quantum states in compact, robust and scalable chip formats with applications in long-distance quantum-secured…

Multi-photon interference is at the heart of photonic quantum technologies. Arrays of integrated cavities can support bright sources of single-photons with high purity and small footprint, but the inevitable spectral distinguishability…

In some super-resolution techniques, adjacent points are illuminated at different times. Thereby, their locations and light intensities can be detected even if the images are very blurred due to diffraction. According to conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Edward Y. Sheffield

In this paper, motivated by diffraction of traveling light waves, a simple mathematical model is proposed, both for the multivariate super-resolution problem and the problem of blind-source separation of real-valued exponential sums. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Charles K. Chui , Hrushikesh N. Mhaskar

Exceptional points, with simultaneous coalescence of eigen-values and eigen-vectors, can be realized with non-Hermitian photonic systems. With the enhanced response, exceptional points have been proposed to improve the performance of…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-22 Dalton Anderson , Manav Shah , Linran Fan

A group of techniques known by the general name of single-molecule localization microscopy reaches a nanometer-scale spatial resolution of point light emitters, well below the diffraction limit of the traditional microscopy. The key feature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Dmitri B. Horoshko , Alexander B. Mikhalychev , Fedor Jelezko , Polina P. Kuzhir

We propose an experimentally accessible scheme to determine lower bounds on the quantum Fisher information (QFI), which ascertains multipartite entanglement or usefulness for quantum metrology. The scheme is based on comparing the…

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