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Quantum interfaces (QIs) that generate entanglement between a multimode atomic memory and a photon forms a multiplexed repeater node and hold promise to greatly improve quantum repeater rates. Recently, the temporal multimode spin-wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Ya Li , Ya-fei Wen , Min-jie Wang , Chao Liu , Hai-long Liu , Shu-jing Li , Zhong-xiao Xu , Hai Wang

Quantum illumination leverages entangled lights to detect the presence of low-reflectivity objects within a thermal environment. In a related vein, quantum parameter estimation utilizes nonclassical probes to precisely determine unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Wei Zhong , Dong-Qing Wang , Wen-Yi Zhu , Lan Zhou , Ming-Ming Du , Yu-Bo Sheng

Entangled states, like the two-mode squeezed vacuum state, are known to give quantum advantage in the illumination protocol, a method to detect a weakly reflecting target submerged in a thermal background. We use non-Gaussian photon-added…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-03 Rivu Gupta , Saptarshi Roy , Tamoghna Das , Aditi Sen De

The measurement of a quantum two-level system, or a qubit in modern terminology, often involves an electromagnetic field that interacts with the qubit, before the field is measured continuously and the qubit state is inferred from the noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Shilin Ng , Mankei Tsang

We theoretically compare the quantum Fisher information (QFI) for three configurations of absorption spectroscopy with undetected idler photons: an SU(1,1) interferometer with inter-source idler loss, an induced-coherence (IC) setup in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Martin Houde , Franz Roeder , Christine Silberhorn , Benjamin Brecht , Nicolás Quesada

Quantum phase estimation is a paradigmatic problem in quantum sensing andmetrology. Here we show that adaptive methods based on classical machinelearning algorithms can be used to enhance the precision of quantum phase estimation when noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Nelson Filipe Costa , Yasser Omar , Aidar Sultanov , Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

Quantum metrology overcomes standard precision limits and plays a central role in science and technology. Practically it is vulnerable to imperfections such as decoherence. Here, we demonstrate quantum metrology for noisy channels such that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Kunkun Wang , Xiaoping Wang , Xiang Zhan , Zhihao Bian , Jian Li , Barry C. Sanders , Peng Xue

Heterodyne detectors as phase-insensitive (PI) devices have found important applications in precision measurements such as space-based gravitational-wave (GW) observation. However, the output signal of a PI heterodyne detector is supposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Boya Xie , Sheng Feng

Object detection and range finding using a weak light source is vulnerable to jamming and spoofing attacks by an intruder. Quantum illumination with nonsimultaneous, phase-insensitive coincidence measurements can provide jamming resilience…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Richard J. Murchie , John Jeffers

Quasi-parametric amplification (QPA) is a nonlinear interaction in which the idler wave is depleted through some loss mechanism. QPA plays an important role in signal amplification in ultrafast photonics and quantum light generation. The…

Traditional method for measuring continuous-variable quantum entanglement relies on balanced homodyne detections, which are sensitive to vacuum quantum noise coupled in through losses resulted from many factors such as detector's quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Jiamin Li , Yuhong Liu , Nan Huo , Liang Cui , Sheng Feng , Xiaoying Li , Z. Y. Ou

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

The precision advantages offered by harnessing the quantum states of sensors can be readily compromised by noise. However, when the noise has a different spatial function than the signal of interest, recent theoretical work shows how the…

To improve the performance of a quantum key distribution (QKD) system, high speed, low dark count single photon detectors (or low noise homodyne detectors) are required. However, in practice, a fast detector is usually noisy. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bing Qi , Yi Zhao , Xiongfeng Ma , Hoi-Kwong Lo , Li Qian

Quantum network coding has been proposed to improve resource utilization to support distributed computation but has not yet been put in to practice. We investigate a particular implementation of quantum network coding using…

LiDAR systems that rely on classical signals are susceptible to intercept-and-recent spoofing attacks, where a target attempts to avoid detection. To address this vulnerability, we propose a quantum-secured LiDAR protocol that utilizes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Dong Wang , Juan-Ying Zhao , Ya-Chao Wang , Liang-Jiang Zhou , Yi-Bo Zhao

Quantum illumination (QI) is a revolutionary photonic quantum sensing paradigm that enhances the sensitivity of photodetection in noisy and lossy environments. The QI concept has been recently used to propose a quantum backscatter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Riku Jäntti , Roberto Di Candia , Ruifeng Duan , Kalle Ruttik

We propose quantum receivers with optical squeezing and photon-number-resolving detector (PNRD) for the near-optimal discrimination of quaternary phase-shift-keyed coherent state signals. The basic scheme is similar to the previous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-25 Shuro Izumi , Masahiro Takeoka , Kazuhiro Ema , Masahide Sasaki

It is critically important to analyze the achievability of quantum advantage under realistic imperfections. In this work, we show that quantum advantage in distributed sensing can be achieved with noisy quantum networks which can only…

Quantum illumination uses quantum entanglement as a resource to enable higher-resolution detection of low-reflectivity targets than is possible with classical techniques. This revolutionary technology could transform modern radar. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Wei Wu , Jun-Hong An