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Measurements approaching the ultimate quantum limits of sensitivity are central in quantum information processing, quantum metrology, and communication. Quantum measurements to discriminate multiple states at the single-photon level are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-02 A. R. Ferdinand , M. T. DiMario , F. E. Becerra

The signal to noise ratio of quantum sensing protocols scales with the square root of the coherence time. Thus, increasing this time is a key goal in the field. Dynamical decoupling has proven to be efficient in prolonging the coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Gilad Arrad , Yuval Vinkler , Dorit Aharonov , Alex Retzker

It has been recently shown that an interferometric measurement may allow for sub-wavelength resolution of incoherent light. Whereas this holds for noiseless detectors, one could expect that the resolution is in practice limited by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Cosmo Lupo

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

Quantum sensing encompasses highly promising techniques with diverse applications including noise-reduced imaging, super-resolution microscopy as well as imaging and spectroscopy in challenging spectral ranges. These detection schemes use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Felix Riexinger , Mirco Kutas , Björn Haase , Michael Bortz , Georg von Freymann

Super-resolution (SR) is a technique that allows increasing the resolution of a given image. Having applications in many areas, from medical imaging to consumer electronics, several SR methods have been proposed. Currently, the best…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Marija Vella , João F. C. Mota

Correlated photon pairs, carrying strong quantum correlations, have been harnessed to bring quantum advantages to various fields from biological imaging to range finding. Such inherent non-classical properties support extracting more valid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Zhan-Ming Li , Shi-Bao Wu , Jun Gao , Heng Zhou , Zeng-Quan Yan , Ruo-Jing Ren , Si-Yuan Yin , Xian-Min Jin

Quantum sensing is an emerging field with the potential to outperform classical methods in both precision and spatial resolution. However, the sensitivity of the underlying quantum platform also makes the sensors highly susceptible to their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Miriam Resch , Dennis Herb , Mirko Rossini , Joachim Ankerhold , Dominik Maile

Quantum sensors promise revolutionary advances in medical imaging, energy production, mass detection, geodesy, foundational physics research, and a host of other fields. In many sensors, the signal takes the form of a changing qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 M. O. Hecht , Kumar Saurav , Evangelos Vlachos , Daniel A. Lidar , Eli M. Levenson-Falk

Current self-supervised denoising methods for paired noisy images typically involve mapping one noisy image through the network to the other noisy image. However, after measuring the spectral bias of such methods using our proposed Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Wang Zhang , Huaqiu Li , Xiaowan Hu , Tao Jiang , Zikang Chen , Haoqian Wang

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging is one of the biggest achievements in modern photography. Traditional solutions to HDR imaging are designed for and applied to CMOS image sensors (CIS). However, the mainstream one-micron CIS cameras today…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Abhiram Gnanasambandam , Stanley H. Chan

In the last years the exploitation of specific properties of quantum states has disclosed the possibility of realising tasks beyond classical limits, creating the new field of quantum technologies [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. Among them,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 E. D. Lopaeva , I. Ruo Berchera , S. Olivares , G. Brida , I. P. Degiovanni , M. Genovese

Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) is a powerful method for label-free imaging and spectroscopy of materials. Recent experiments have shown that quantum-enhanced Raman scattering can surpass the shot noise limit and improve the sensitivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Frank Schlawin , Manuel Gessner

Quantum illumination is an entanglement-based target detection protocol that provides quantum advantages despite the presence of entanglement-breaking noise. However, the advantage of traditional quantum illumination protocols is limited to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Xiaobin Zhao , Zheshen Zhang , Quntao Zhuang

Resolution enhancements are often desired in imaging applications where high-resolution sensor arrays are difficult to obtain. Many computational imaging methods have been proposed to encode high-resolution scene information on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-29 Kevin Beale , Jianbo Chen , Kevin F. Kelly , Justin Romberg

We report an algorithm, based on quantum optics formulation, where a coherent state is used as the elementary quantum resource for the image representation. We provide an architecture with constituent optical elements in linear order with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Vivek Mehta , Sonali Jana , Utpal Roy

The classically defined minimum uncertainty of the optical phase is known as the standard quantum limit or shot-noise limit (SNL) originating in the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. Based on SNL, the phase sensitivity is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Byoung S. Ham

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 metrology is supposed to significantly improve the precision of parameter estimation by utilizing suitable quantum resources. However, the predicted precision can be severely distorted by realistic noises. Here, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Yue Zhai , Xiaodong Yang , Kai Tang , Xinyue Long , Xinfang Nie , Tao Xin , Dawei Lu , Jun Li

Resource-efficient quantum state tomography is one of the key ingredients of future quantum technologies. In this work, we propose a new tomography protocol combining standard quantum state reconstruction methods with an attention-based…