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Indistinguishable quantum states interfere, but the mere possibility of obtaining information that could distinguish between overlapping states inhibits quantum interference. Quantum interference imaging can outperform classical imaging or…

Sensors that harness exclusively quantum phenomena (such as entanglement) can achieve superior performance compared to those employing only classical principles. Recently, a technique based on postselected, weakly-performed measurements has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 George C. Knee , G. Andrew D. Briggs , Simon C. Benjamin , Erik M. Gauger

Quantum sensing technologies offer transformative potential for ultra-sensitive biomedical sensing, yet their clinical translation remains constrained by classical noise limits and a reliance on macroscopic ensembles. We propose a unifying…

Recent advances in engineering and control of nanoscale quantum sensors have opened new paradigms in precision metrology. Unfortunately, hardware restrictions often limit the sensor performance. In nanoscale magnetic resonance probes, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 A. Ajoy , Y. X. Liu , K. Saha , L. Marseglia , J. -C. Jaskula , U. Bissbort , P. Cappellaro

Quantum computational approaches to some classic target identification and localization algorithms, especially for radar images, are investigated, and are found to raise a number of quantum statistics and quantum measurement issues with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Peter B. Weichman

Quantum entanglement between paired photons is the foundation of optical quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum networks. Traditionally, quantum information science has focused on the particle nature of photons at the microscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Byoung S. Ham

We explore applications of quantum computing for radio interferometry and astronomy using recent developments in quantum image processing. We evaluate the suitability of different quantum image representations using a toy quantum computing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-14 Thomas Brunet , Emma Tolley , Stefano Corda , Roman Ilic , P. Chris Broekema , Jean-Paul Kneib

Quantum sensing can enhance imaging performance by reducing measurement noise below the classical limit, thereby improving the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of acquired data. In conventional quantum imaging schemes, squeezing is applied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Haowei Shi , Visuttha Manthamkarn , Christopher M. Jones , Zheshen Zhang , Quntao Zhuang

Modelling of photonic devices traditionally involves solving the equations of light-matter interaction and light propagation, and it is restrained by their applicability. Here we demonstrate an alternative modelling methodology by creating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Anton N. Vetlugin , Cesare Soci , Nikolay I. Zheludev

The production of pairs of entangled photons simply by focusing a laser beam onto a crystal with a non-linear optical response was used to test quantum mechanics and to open new approaches in imaging. The development of the latter was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-09 Paul-Antoine Moreau , Ermes Toninelli , Thomas Gregory , Miles J. Padgett

Quantum coherence is a fundamental characteristic to distinguish quantum systems from their classical counterparts. Though quantum coherence persists in isolated non-interacting systems, interactions inevitably lead to decoherence, which is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-15 Ke-Ji Chen , Ho Kwan Lau , Hon Ming Chan , Dajun Wang , Qi Zhou

The superposition of quantum states lies at the heart of physics and has been recently found to serve as a versatile resource for quantum information protocols, defining the notion of quantum coherence. In this contribution, we report on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Valeria Cimini , Ilaria Gianani , Marco Sbroscia , Jan Sperling , Marco Barbieri

Computational methods are the most effective tools we have besides scientific experiments to explore the properties of complex biological systems. Progress is slowing because digital silicon computers have reached their limits in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-03 Viv Kendon

Quantum coherence, present whenever a quantum system exists in a superposition of multiple classically distinct states, marks one of the fundamental departures from classical physics. Quantum coherence has recently been investigated…

Modern imaging technologies are widely based on classical principles of light or electromagnetic wave propagation. They can be remarkably sophisticated, with recent successes ranging from single molecule microscopy to imaging far-distant…

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…

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We introduce a general method for the construction of quasiprobability representations for arbitrary notions of quantum coherence. Our technique yields a nonnegative probability distribution for the decomposition of any classical state.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 J. Sperling , I. A. Walmsley

A fundamental task in photonics is to characterise an unknown optical process, defined by properties such as birefringence, spectral response, thickness and flatness. Amongst many ways to achieve this, single-photon probes can be used in a…

The rigorous resource framework of quantum coherence has been set up recently and excited a wide variety of interests. Here we show that a quantum cavity optomechanical system, as an emerging platform, can behave with a certain value of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Qiang Zheng , Jianwei Xu , Yao Yao , Yong Li

Quantum imaging is an advanced method for microscopy or investigating the optical properties of materials or bio-medical inspections with high accuracy, low noise, and extremely low photo-damage. In previous work, we proposed a quantum…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-09 Mousume Samad , Maki Shimizu , Yasuto Hijikata