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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,…

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Quantum sensing, built upon fundamental quantum phenomena like entanglement and squeezing, is revolutionizing precision and sensitivity across diverse domains, including quantum metrology and imaging. Its impact is now stretching into radar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-24 Ricardo Gallego Torrome , Shabir Barzanjeh

Several quantum radar concepts have been proposed that exploit the entanglement found in two-mode squeezed vacuum states of the electromagnetic field, the most prominent being radar based on quantum illumination. Classical radars are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Jonathan N. Blakely , Shawn D. Pethel , Kenneth R. Stewart , Kurt Jacobs

In quantum illumination, the signal mode of light, entangled with an idler mode, is dispatched towards a suspected object bathed in thermal noise and the returning mode, along with the stored idler mode, is measured to determine the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Ashwith Varadaraj Prabhu , Baladitya Suri , C. M. Chandrashekar

A contemporary technological milestone is to build a quantum device performing a computational task beyond the capability of any classical computer, an achievement known as quantum adversarial advantage. In what ways can the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Jacob D. Biamonte , Mauro E. S. Morales , Dax Enshan Koh

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

Qubit-based sensing platforms offer promising new directions for wave-like dark matter searches. Recent proposals demonstrate that entangled qubits can achieve quadratic scaling of the signal in the number of qubits. In this work we expand…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-15 Arushi Bodas , Sohitri Ghosh , Roni Harnik

Quantum illumination is a powerful sensing technique that employs entangled signal-idler photon pairs to boost the detection efficiency of low-reflectivity objects in environments with bright thermal noise. The promised advantage over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 S. Barzanjeh , S. Pirandola , D. Vitali , J. M. Fink

Entanglement boosts performance limits in sensing and communication, and surprisingly the advantage over classical protocols can be even larger in presence of entanglement-breaking noise. However, to maximally fulfill such advantages…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 Haowei Shi , Bingzhi Zhang , Quntao Zhuang

After a brief introduction to the notion of quantum entanglement and quantum correlations, several schemes for a quantum radar based upon the quantum illumination and others protocols are discussed. We review different concepts that have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Ricardo Gallego Torromé , Nadya Ben Bekhti-Winkel , Peter Knott

A wide variety of positioning and ranging procedures are based on repeatedly sending electromagnetic pulses through space and measuring their time of arrival. This paper shows that quantum entanglement and squeezing can be employed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Giovannetti , S. Lloyd , L. Maccone

The classical bound on image resolution defined by the Rayleigh limit can be beaten by exploiting the properties of quantum mechanical entanglement. If entangled photons are used as signal states, the best possible resolution is instead…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Gilbert , M. Hamrick , Y. S. Weinstein , S. P. Pappas , A. Donadio

While quantum entanglement can enhance the performance of several technologies such as computing, sensing and cryptography, its widespread use is hindered by its sensitivity to noise and losses. Interestingly, even when entanglement has…

The signal half of an entangled twin-beam, generated using spontaneous parametric downconversion, interrogates a region of space that is suspected of containing a target, and has high loss and high (entanglement-breaking) background noise.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Saikat Guha , Baris I. Erkmen

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

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

Nonclassical states are essential for optics-based quantum information processing, but their fragility limits their utility for practical scenarios in which loss and noise inevitably degrade, if not destroy, nonclassicality. Exploiting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-25 Zheshen Zhang , Sara Mouradian , Franco N. C. Wong , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

We investigate optimal discrimination between two projective single-qubit measurements in a scenario where the measurement can be performed only once. We consider general setting involving a tunable fraction of inconclusive outcomes and we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 M. Mikova , M. Sedlak , I. Straka , M. Micuda , M. Ziman , M. Jezek , M. Dusek , J. Fiurasek

Quantum entanglement is an indispensable resource for many significant quantum information processing tasks. However, because of the noise in quantum channels, it is difficult to distribute quantum entanglement over a long distance in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Zhaofeng Su , Ji Guan , Lvzhou Li

Quantum algorithms could efficiently solve certain classically intractable problems by exploiting quantum parallelism. To date, whether the quantum entanglement is useful or not for quantum computing is still a question of debate. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 He-Liang Huang , Ashutosh K. Goswami , Wan-Su Bao , Prasanta K. Panigrahi