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Quantum target detection is an emerging application that utilizes entanglement to enhance the sensing of the presence of an object. Although several experimental demonstrations for certain situations have been reported recently, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Feixiang Xu , Xiao-Ming Zhang , Liang Xu , Tao Jiang , Man-Hong Yung , Lijian Zhang

Quantum illumination (QI) provides entanglement-enabled target-detection enhancement, despite operating in an entanglement-breaking environment. Existing experimental studies of QI have utilized a Bayesian approach, assuming that the target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 William Ward , Abdulkarim Hariri , Zheshen Zhang

Quantum correlations become formidable tools for beating classical capacities of measurement. Preserving these advantages in practical systems, where experimental imperfections are unavoidable, is a challenge of the utmost importance. Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Elena Losero , Ivano Ruo Berchera , Alice Meda , Alessio Avella , Olga Sambataro , Marco Genovese

Use of non-classical light in a quantum illumination scheme provides an advantage over classical illumination when used for LIDAR with a simple and realistic detection scheme based on Geiger-mode single photon detectors. Here we provide an…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-20 Richard J. Murchie , Jonathan D. Pritchard , John Jeffers

Quantum illumination (QI) provides entanglement-based target detection---in an entanglement-breaking environment---whose performance is significantly better than that of optimum classical-illumination target detection. QI's performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Quntao Zhuang , Zheshen Zhang , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

In this article, the basic principle of target detection based on Gaussian state quantum illumination (QI) has introduced. The performance of such system has compared with its classical counterpart, which employs the most classical state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Hossein Allahverdi , M. H. Qamat , M. Nowshadi

The scalability, error correction and practical problem solving are important challenges for quantum computing (QC) as more emphasized by quantum supremacy (QS) experiments. Quantum path computing (QPC), recently introduced for linear optic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-13 Burhan Gulbahar

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

Detection of signals buried in noise is the major challenge for sensing. Classically, the optimal detector is a matched filter, whose sensitivity meets the classical limit of correlation between the filter target and the measured signal…

In order to enhance LIDAR performance metrics such as target detection sensitivity, noise resilience and ranging accuracy, we exploit the strong temporal correlation within the photon pairs generated in continuous-wave pumped semiconductor…

Quantum Radar is a promising technology that could have a strong impact on the civilian and military realms. In this study we introduce a new concept design for implementing a Quantum Radar, based on the time and polarization correlations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Kadir Durak , Naser Jam , Cagri Dindar

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 illumination (QI) is an entanglement-enhanced sensing system whose performance advantage over a comparable classical system survives its usage in an entanglement-breaking scenario plagued by loss and noise. In particular, QI's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Quntao Zhuang , Zheshen Zhang , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

We address joint photodetection as a method to discriminate between the classical correlations of a thermal beam divided by a beam splitter and the quantum entanglement of a twin-beam obtained by parametric downconversion. We show that for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Agliati , M. Bondani , A. Andreoni , G. De Cillis , M. G. A. Paris

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 study, in theory and experiment, the quantum properties of correlated light fields measured with click-counting detectors providing incomplete information on the photon statistics. We establish a correlation parameter for the conditional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 J. Sperling , T. J. Bartley , G. Donati , M. Barbieri , X. -M. Jin , A. Datta , W. Vogel , I. A. Walmsley

Improved measurement techniques are central to technological development and foundational scientific exploration. Quantum optics relies upon detectors sensitive to non-classical features of light, enabling precise tests of physical laws and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-18 Merlin Cooper , Michal Karpinski , Brian J. Smith

We investigate performances of pure continuous variable states in discriminating thermal and identity channels by comparing their M-copy error probability bounds. This offers us a simplified mathematical analysis for quantum target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-10 A. R. Usha Devi , A. K. Rajagopal

Extracting useful signals is key to both classical and quantum technologies. Conventional noise filtering methods rely on different patterns of signal and noise in frequency or time domains, thus limiting their scope of application,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Yang Shen , Ping Wang , Chun Tung Cheung , Joerg Wachtrup , Ren-Bao Liu , Sen Yang

We describe a simple multivariate technique of likelihood ratios for improved discrimination of signal and background in multi-dimensional quantum target detection. The technique combines two independent variables, time difference and…