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The benefits of entanglement can outlast entanglement itself. In quantum illumination, entanglement is employed to better detect reflecting objects in environments so noisy that all entanglement is destroyed. Here, we show that quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Christian Weedbrook , Stefano Pirandola , Jayne Thompson , Vlatko Vedral , Mile Gu

The performance of a quantum sensor is fundamentally limited by noise. This noise is particularly damaging when it becomes correlated with the readout of a target signal, caused by fluctuations of the sensor's operating parameters. These…

Quantum correlation of two-photon states has been utilized to suppress the environmental noise in imaging down to the single-photon level. However, the size of the coherence area of photon pairs limits the applications of quantum imaging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 Dianzhen Cui , X. X. Yi , Li-Ping Yang

Interferometric complementarity is known to be one of the most nonclassical manifestations of the quantum formalism. It is commonly known as wave-particle duality and has been studied presently from the perspective of quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-13 Gautam Sharma , Mohd Asad Siddiqui , Shiladitya Mal , Sk Sazim , Aditi Sen De

Holography is a cornerstone characterisation and imaging technique that can be applied to the full electromagnetic spectrum, from X-rays to radio waves or even particles such as neutrons. The key property in all these holographic approaches…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Hugo Defienne , Bienvenu Ndagano , Ashley Lyons , Daniele Faccio

Conventional absorption spectroscopy relies on coherent laser sources, and in turn suffers from the inherent limitation of shot noise, especially in estimating weak absorption. Here we propose a measurement strategy with correlated photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Zhucheng Zhang , Xue Zhang , Jing Liu , Hui Dong

We propose a novel statistical hypothesis testing method for detection of objects in noisy images. The method uses results from percolation theory and random graph theory. We present an algorithm that allows to detect objects of unknown…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-02 Mikhail A. Langovoy , Olaf Wittich

The measurement of shape parameters of sources in astronomical images is usually performed by assuming that the underlying noise is uncorrelated. Spatial noise correlation is however present in practice due to various observational effects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Refregier , S. T. Brown

Motivated by modern applications of light detection and ranging (LIDAR), we study the model of an optical receiver based on an avalanche photo-diode (APD), followed by electronic circuitry for detection of reflected optical signals and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Ner Merhav

Ramsey interferometry is a widely used tool for precisely measuring transition frequencies between two energy levels of a quantum system, with applications in time-keeping, precision spectroscopy, quantum optics, and quantum information.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 H. Hainzer , D. Kiesenhofer , T. Ollikainen , M. Bock , F. Kranzl , M. K. Joshi , G. Yoeli , R. Blatt , T. Gefen , C. F. Roos

Car detection is an important task that serves as a crucial prerequisite for many automated driving functions. The large variations in lighting/weather conditions and vehicle densities of the scenes pose significant challenges to existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Wen Dong , Haiyang Mei , Ziqi Wei , Ao Jin , Sen Qiu , Qiang Zhang , Xin Yang

Noise and imperfection of realistic devices are major obstacles for implementing quantum cryptography. In particular birefringence in optical fibers leads to decoherence of qubits encoded in polarization of photon. We show how to overcome…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. -C. Boileau , R. Laflamme , M. Laforest , C. R. Myers

Given a quantum system $S$ entangled with another system $I$, the entanglement testing problem arises, prompting the identification of the system $S$ within a set of $m \ge 2$ identical systems. This scenario serves as a model for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Pengcheng Liao , Quntao Zhuang

Sensing and measurement tasks in severely adverse conditions such as loss, noise and dephasing can be improved by illumination with quantum states of light. Previous results have shown a modest reduction in the number of measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Alex O. C. Davis , Giacomo Sorelli , Valerian Thiel , Brian J. Smith

Enhanced nonlinear optical response of a coherent atomic medium is the basis for many atomic sensors, and their performance is ultimately limited by the quantum fluctuations of the optical read-out. Here we demonstrate that off-resonant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Irina Novikova , Eugeniy E. Mikhailov , Yanhong Xiao

We propose a quantum error correction-like noise mitigation protocol for enhancing the sensitivity of wave-like dark matter searches with quantum sensors. Our protocol uses multiple sensors to mitigate the noise affecting each sensor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-06 Hajime Fukuda , Takeo Moroi , Thanaporn Sichanugrist

The correlated behavior of electrons determines the structure and optical properties of molecules, semiconductor and other systems. Valuable information on these correlations is provided by measuring the response to femtosecond laser…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shaul Mukamel , Rafal Oszwaldowski , Lijun Yang

Accurately measuring the translations of objects between images is essential in many fields, including biology, medicine, chemistry, and physics. One important application is tracking one or more particles by measuring their apparent…

We report an experimental investigation of the role of measurement in quantum metrology when the states of the probes are mixed. In particular, we investigated optimized local measurements and general global projective measurements,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-22 R. S. Piera , S. P. Walborn , G. H. Aguilar

Entanglement detection is a fundamental task in quantum information science, serving as a cornerstone for quantum benchmarking and foundational studies. With an increasing qubit number that can be effectively controlled, there is a pressing…