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Quantum illumination (QI) promises unprecedented performances in target detection but there are various problems surrounding its implementation. Where target ranging is a concern, signal and idler recombination forms a crucial barrier to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Athena Karsa , Stefano Pirandola

Quantum illumination uses quantum correlations to enhance the detection of an object in the presence of background noise. This advantage has been shown to exist even if one uses non-optimal direct measurements on the two correlated modes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Thomas Brougham , Nigam Samantaray , John Jeffers

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

Quantum illumination has been proposed and demonstrated to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in light detection and ranging (LiDAR). When relying on coincidence detection, such a quantum LiDAR is limited by the response time of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Gewei Qian , Xingqi Xu , Shun-An Zhu , Chenran Xu , Fei Gao , V. V. Yakovlev , Xu Liu , Shi-Yao Zhu , Da-Wei Wang

Quantum illumination is to discern the presence or absence of a low reflectivity target, where the error probability decays exponentially in the number of copies used. When the target reflectivity is small so that it is hard to distinguish…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-10 Dong Hwan Kim , Yonggi Jo , Duk Y. Kim , Taek Jeong , Jihwan Kim , Nam Hun Park , Zaeill Kim , Su-Yong Lee

Quantum illumination (QI) is an entanglement-enhanced sensing system whose performance advantage over a comparable classical system survives its usage in an entanglement-breaking scenario plagued by loss and noise. In particular, QI's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Quntao Zhuang , Zheshen Zhang , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Entangled photons have the remarkable ability to be more sensitive to signal and less sensitive to noise than classical light. Joint photons can sample an object collectively, resulting in faster phase accumulation and higher spatial…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-04 Chien-Hung Lu , Matthew Reichert , Xiaohang Sun , Jason W. Fleischer

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

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

Entangled light sources for illuminating objects offer advantages over conventional illumination methods by enhancing the detection sensitivity of reflecting objects. The core of the quantum advantage lies in effectively exploiting quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Kanad Sengupta , K. Muhammed Shafi , Soumya Asokan , C. M. Chandrashekar

In this work, a theoretical generalization of Lloyd's quantum illumination to signal beams described by two entangled photon states is developed. It is shown that the new protocol offers a method to find the range of the target, reduces the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Ricardo Gallego Torromé , Nadya Ben Bekhti-Winkel , Peter Knott

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

Object detection and range finding using a weak light source is vulnerable to jamming and spoofing attacks by an intruder. Quantum illumination with nonsimultaneous, phase-insensitive coincidence measurements can provide jamming resilience…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Richard J. Murchie , John Jeffers

Quantum-enhanced sensing has a goal of enhancing a parameter sensitivity with input quantum states, while quantum illumination has a goal of enhancing a target detection capability with input entangled states in a heavy noise environment.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Su-Yong Lee , Yong Sup Ihn , Zaeill Kim

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

Quantum correlation, such as entanglement and squeezing have shown to improve phase estimation in interferometric setups on one side, and non-interferometric imaging scheme of amplitude object on the other. In the last case, quantum…

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…

Quantum-enhanced, idler-free sensing protocol to measure the response of a target object to the frequency of a probe in a noisy and lossy scenario is proposed. In this protocol, a target with frequency-dependent reflectivity embedded in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Mateo Casariego , Yasser Omar , Mikel Sanz

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,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Wei Wu , Jun-Hong An

Quantum illumination leverages entangled lights to detect the presence of low-reflectivity objects within a thermal environment. In a related vein, quantum parameter estimation utilizes nonclassical probes to precisely determine unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Wei Zhong , Dong-Qing Wang , Wen-Yi Zhu , Lan Zhou , Ming-Ming Du , Yu-Bo Sheng