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Secret sharing allows a trusted party (the dealer) to distribute a secret to a group of players, who can only access the secret cooperatively. Quantum secret sharing (QSS) protocols could provide unconditional security based on fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Warren P. Grice , Bing Qi

Quantum Annealing (QA) was originally intended for accelerating the solution of combinatorial optimization tasks that have natural encodings as Ising models. However, recent experiments on QA hardware platforms have demonstrated that, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Jon Nelson , Marc Vuffray , Andrey Y. Lokhov , Tameem Albash , Carleton Coffrin

In this article, we explore the possibility of achieving noise suppression for finite-dimensional quantum systems through coherent feedback. For a quantum plant which is expected to evolve according to a target trajectory, noise effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Shikun Zhang , Guofeng Zhang

A pulsed balanced homodyne detector has been developed for precise measurements of electric field quadratures of pulsed optical quantum states. A high level of common mode suppression (> 85 dB) and low electronic noise (730 electrons per…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Hansen , T. Aichele , C. Hettich , P. Lodahl , A. I. Lvovsky , J. Mlynek , S. Schiller

In quantum illumination, various detection schemes have been proposed for harnessing remaining quantum correlations of the entanglement-based resource state. To this date, the only successful implementation in the microwave domain relies on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 F. Kronowetter , M. Würth , W. Utschick , R. Gross , K. G. Fedorov

Entanglement and correlation of quantum light can enhance LiDAR sensitivity in the presence of strong background noise. However, the power of such quantum sources is fundamentally limited to a stream of single photons and cannot compete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-03 Han Liu , Changhao Qin , Georgios Papangelakis , Meng Lon Iu , Amr S Helmy

In low-intermediate-frequency (low-IF) receivers, I/Q imbalance (IQI) causes interference on the desired signal from the blocker signal transmitted over the image frequencies. Conventional approaches for data-aided IQI estimation in zero-IF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Ahmad Gomaa , Ayman Elezabi , Mohamed Eissa

We analyze and discuss the quantum noise in signal-recycled laser interferometer gravitational-wave detectors, such as Advanced LIGO, using a heterodyne readout scheme and taking into account the optomechanical dynamics. Contrary to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Alessandra Buonanno , Yanbei Chen , Nergis Mavalvala

In practical realizations of quantum information processing, there may exist noise in a measurement readout stage where errors appear not only on individual qubits but also on multiple ones collectively, the latter of which is called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Seungchan Seo , Jiheon Seong , Joonwoo Bae

In this work we explore monolithic opto-electronic integration platform for significant down-scaling of input-referred noise in custom designed low-noise analog front-end used for balanced photodetection. The performance of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Dinka Milovančev , Nemanja Vokić

Quantum computing hardware is affected by quantum noise that undermine the quality of results of an executed quantum program. Amongst other quantum noises, coherent error that caused by parameter drifting and miscalibration, remains…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xiangyu Ren , Junjie Wan , Zhiding Liang , Antonio Barbalace

There has been tremendous progress in the physical realization of quantum computing hardware in recent times, bringing us closer than ever before to realizing the promise of quantum computing. However, noise continues to pose a crucial…

Quantum metrology seeks to leverage the richness of quantum systems for making better measurements than are possible using only classical resources in order to gain a ``quantum advantage''. Quantum metrology schemes must also be resilient…

We propose a quantum-enhanced lidar system to estimate a target's radial velocity which employs squeezed and frequency entangled signal and idler beams. We compare its performance against a classical protocol using a coherent state with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Maximilian Reichert , Roberto Di Candia , Moe Z. Win , Mikel Sanz

The development of new techniques to improve measurements is crucial for all sciences. By employing quantum systems as sensors to probe some physical property of interest allows the application of quantum resources, such as coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 G. H. Aguilar , M. A. de Souza , R. M. Gomes , J. Thompson , M. Gu , L. C. Céleri , S. P. Walborn

The second generation of interferometric gravitational wave detectors are quickly approaching their design sensitivity. For the first time these detectors will become limited by quantum back-action noise. Several back-action evasion…

Hierarchical quantum classifiers, such as quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs), represent recent progress toward designing effective and feasible architectures for quantum classification. However, their performance on near-term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Taehyun Kim , Israel F. Araujo , Daniel K. Park

The first generation of multi-qubit quantum technologies will consist of noisy, intermediate-scale devices for which active error correction remains out of reach. To exploit such devices, it is thus imperative to use passive error…

Quantum communication and quantum metrology are widely compelling applications in the field of quantum information science, and quantum remote sensing is an intersection of both. Despite their differences, there are notable commonalities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Yu-Chen Liu , Yuan-Bin Cheng , Xing-Bo Pan , Ze-Zhou Sun , Dong Pan , Gui-Lu Long

Modern precision experiments often probe unknown classical fields with bosonic sensors in quantum-noise-limited regimes where vacuum fluctuations limit conventional readout. We introduce Quantum Signal Learning (QSL), a sensing framework…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jordan Cotler , Daine L. Danielson , Ishaan Kannan