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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

Quantum illumination is a protocol for detecting a low-reflectivity target by using two-mode entangled states composed of signal and idler modes, which can outperform unentangled states. We study multi-qudit states for single-shot detection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Sunghwa Kang , Yonggi Jo , Jihwan Kim , Zaeill Kim , Duk Y. Kim , Su-Yong Lee

The advantages of using quantum states of light for object detection are often highlighted in schemes that use simultaneous and optimal measurements. Here, we describe a theoretical but experimentally realizable quantum illumination scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Hao Yang , Nigam Samantaray , John Jeffers

Quantum target detection aims to utilise quantum technologies to achieve performances in target detection not possible through purely classical means. Quantum illumination is an example of this, based on signal-idler entanglement, promising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Athena Karsa , Masoud Ghalaii , Stefano Pirandola

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

The contrast of an image can be degraded by the presence of background light and sensor noise. To overcome this degradation, quantum illumination protocols have been theorised (Science 321 (2008), Physics Review Letters 101 (2008)) that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Thomas Gregory , Paul-Antoine Moreau , Ermes Toninelli , Miles J. Padgett

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) hasn't yet demonstrated extensively and clearly its advantages compared to the classical machine learning approach. So far, there are only specific cases where some quantum-inspired techniques have achieved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Javier Mancilla , Christophe Pere

We analyze interrelation of quantum and classical entanglement. The latter notion is widely used in classical optic simulation of some quantum-like features of light. We criticize the common interpretation that "quantum nonlocality" is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 Andrei Khrennikov

We examine whether metrological resolution beyond coherent states is a nonclassical effect. We show that this is true for linear detection schemes but false for nonlinear schemes, and propose a very simple experimental setup to test it. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-02 Ángel Rivas , Alfredo Luis

A quantum edge detector for image segmentation in optical environments is presented in this work. A Boolean version of the same detector is presented too. The quantum version of the new edge detector works with computational basis states,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-11 Mario Mastriani

Quantum discord has been shown to be a resource for quantum advantage in addition to quantum entanglement. While many experiments have demonstrated classical analogies of entanglement, none have done so for discord. We present a…

Quantum Optical Coherence Tomography (Q-OCT) presents many advantages over its classical counterpart, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT): it provides an increased axial resolution and is immune to even orders of dispersion. The core of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Jakub Szlachetka , Sylwia Kolenderska , Piotr Kolenderski

Detecting object with low reflectivity embedded within a noisy background is a challenging task. Quantum correlations between pairs of quantum states of light, though are highly sensitive to background noise and losses, offer advantages…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 K. Muhammed Shafi , A. Padhye , C. M. Chandrashekar

The purpose of quantum technologies is to explore how quantum effects can improve on existing solutions for the treatment of information. Quantum photonics sensing holds great promises for reaching a more efficient trade-off between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Marco Barbieri

We consider a basic model of digital memory where each cell is composed of a reflecting medium with two possible reflectivities. By fixing the mean number of photons irradiated over each memory cell, we show that a non-classical source of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Stefano Pirandola

We outline the potential gains of quantum correlated imaging and compare it to classical correlated imaging. As shown earlier by A. Gatti, E. Bambilla, M. Bache, and L. A. Lugiato, ArXive:quant-ph/0405056, classical correlated imaging can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Bogdanski , G. Bjork , A. Karlsson

The use of entangled light to illuminate objects is shown to provide significant enhancements over unentangled light for detecting and imaging those objects in the presence of high levels of noise and loss. Each signal sent out is entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-14 Seth Lloyd

Nonclassical quantum effects gradually reach domains of physics of large systems previously considered as purely classical. We derive a hierarchy of operational criteria suitable for a reliable detection of nonclassicality of light from an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-24 Lukáš Lachman , Lukáš Slodička , Radim Filip

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

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