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A minimally-invasive way to detect the presence of a stealth target is to probe it with a single photon and analyze the reflected signals. The efficiency of such a conventional detection scheme can potentially be enhanced by the method of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Man-Hong Yung , Fei Meng , Ming-Jing Zhao

Two descriptions are introduced and analyzed for a reflectivity estimation and detection scheme that does not involve measurement of photons scattered by the target. One description, provided by the Hamiltonian dynamics of the full…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 T. J. Volkoff

Entanglement is known to significantly improve the performance (separately) of communication and detection schemes that utilize quantum resources. This work explores the simultaneous utility of quantum entanglement for (joint) communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Yuhang Yao , Syed A. Jafar

We investigate Quantum Target Ranging in the context of multi-hypothesis testing and its applicability to real-world LiDAR systems. First, we demonstrate that ranging is generally an easier task compared to the well-studied problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Giuseppe Ortolano , Ivano Ruo-Berchera

We review some applications of entanglement to improve quantum measurements and communication, with the main focus on the optical implementation of quantum information processing. The evolution of continuos variable entangled states in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. G. A. Paris , G. M. D'Ariano , P. Lo Presti , P. Perinotti

We present an entangled quantum radar protocol. It consists in scanning the sky with a thin Gaussian beam and measuring the travel time of the radiation reflected from the target, as in conventional radars. Here the Gaussian beam is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 Lorenzo Maccone , Yi Zheng , Changliang Ren

Entanglement is nowadays considered as a key quantity for the understanding of correlations, transport properties, and phase transitions in composite quantum systems, and thus receives interest beyond the engineered applications in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-06 Malte C. Tichy , Florian Mintert , Andreas Buchleitner

This paper presents a brief examination of Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) technology within ground-based radar systems. It offers a lucid comprehension of the ATR concept, delves into its historical milestones, and categorizes ATR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Jiangkun Gong , Jun Yan , Deyong Kong , Deren Li

Entanglement constitutes a key characteristic feature of quantum matter. Its detection, however, still faces major challenges. In this letter, we formulate a framework for probing entanglement based on machine learning techniques. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Jun Yong Khoo , Markus Heyl

Entanglement detection is essential in quantum information science and quantum many-body physics. It has been proved that entanglement exists almost surely for a random quantum state, while the realizations of effective entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 Pengyu Liu , Zhenhuan Liu , Shu Chen , Xiongfeng Ma

Networks based on entangled quantum systems enable interesting applications in quantum information processing and the understanding of the resulting quantum correlations is essential for advancing the technology. We show that the theory of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Tristan Kraft , Cornelia Spee , Xiao-Dong Yu , Otfried Gühne

Sensors for mapping the trajectory of an incoming particle find important utility in experimental high energy physics and searches for dark matter. For a quantum sensing protocol that uses projective measurements on a multi-qubit sensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Zachary E. Chin , David R. Leibrandt , Isaac L. Chuang

We study the efficiency of quantum tomographic reconstruction where the system under investigation (quantum target) is indirectly monitored by looking at the state of a quantum probe that has been scattered off the target. In particular we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-02 A. De Pasquale , P. Facchi , V. Giovannetti , K. Yuasa

We propose to make use of quantum entanglement for extracting holographic information about a remote 3-D object in a confined space which light enters, but from which it cannot escape. Light scattered from the object is detected in this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Ayman F. Abouraddy , Bahaa E. A. Saleh , Alexander V. Sergienko , Malvin C. Teich

Quantum communication is a holy grail to achieve secure communication among a set of partners, since it is provably unbreakable by physical laws. Quantum sensing employs quantum entanglement as an extra resource to determine parameters by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Mikel Sanz , Kirill G. Fedorov , Frank Deppe , Enrique Solano

Quantum entanglement, after playing a significant role in the development of the foundations of quantum mechanics, has been recently rediscovered as a new physical resource with potential commercial applications such as, for example,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pawel Horodecki , Artur Ekert

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

We address the use of entanglement to improve the precision of generalized quantum interferometry, i.e. of binary measurements aimed to determine whether or not a perturbation has been applied by a given device. For the most relevant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. M. D'Ariano , Matteo G. A Paris , Paolo Perinotti

Quantum target ranging, which estimates a target position using entangled photon pairs, is known to offer an error-probability advantage over classical ranging strategies. Yet, realizing this advantage in practice remains challenging, as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Sangwoo Jeon , Yonggi Jo , Jihwan Kim , Zaeill Kim , Duk Y. Kim , Yong Sup Ihn , Su-Yong Lee

The detection and certification of entanglement and quantum correlations in materials is of fundamental and far-reaching importance, and has seen significant recent progress. It impacts both our understanding of the basic science of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Pontus Laurell , Allen Scheie , Elbio Dagotto , D. Alan Tennant