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The optimal discrimination of non-orthogonal quantum states with minimum error probability is a fundamental task in quantum measurement theory as well as an important primitive in optical communication. In this work, we propose and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Wittmann , M. Takeoka , K. N. Cassemiro , M. Sasaki , G. Leuchs , U. L. Andersen

Quantum detector tomography is a fundamental technique for calibrating quantum devices and performing quantum engineering tasks. In this paper, we design optimal probe states for detector estimation based on the minimum upper bound of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Shuixin Xiao , Yuanlong Wang , Daoyi Dong , Jun Zhang

We extend quantum state tomography with minimal cumulative disturbance, first investigated in [arXiv:2406.18370], to arbitrary finite-dimensional pure states. A learner sequentially receives fresh copies of an unknown pure state, chooses a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Josep Lumbreras , Marco Tomamichel

Retrieving classical information encoded in optical modes is at the heart of many quantum information processing tasks, especially in the field of quantum communication and sensing. Yet, despite its importance, the fundamental limits of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Ignatius William Primaatmaja , Asaph Ho , Valerio Scarani

Quantum states of light have been shown to enhance precision in absorption estimation over classical strategies. By exploiting interference and resonant enhancement effects, we show that coherent-state probes in all-pass ring resonators can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 Alexandre Belsley , Euan J. Allen , Animesh Datta , Jonathan C. F. Matthews

Using coherent states in optical quantum process tomography is a practically-relevant approach. Here, we develop a framework for complete characterization of quantum-optical processes in terms of normally-ordered moments by using coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-11 M. Ghalaii , A. T. Rezakhani

Characterising optical quantum states is essential for the development of quantum technologies. While traditional approaches to perform full quantum state tomography are often experimentally demanding, neuromorphic architectures may provide…

The characterization of continuous-variable quantum states is crucial for applications in quantum communication, sensing, simulation and computing. However, a full characterization of multimode quantum states requires a number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Ya-Dong Wu , Yan Zhu , Giulio Chiribella , Nana Liu

Cavity enhanced light scattering off an ultracold gas in an optical lattice constitutes a quantum measurement with a controllable form of the measurement back-action. Time-resolved counting of scattered photons alters the state of the atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-09 Igor B. Mekhov , Helmut Ritsch

The characterization or subsequent use of propagating optical quantum state requires the knowledge of its precise temporal mode. Defining this mode structure very often relies on a detailed a priori knowledge of the used resources, when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-21 Olivier Morin , Claude Fabre , Julien Laurat

We address the problem of unambiguously identifying the state of a probe qudit with the state of one of d reference qudits. The reference states are assumed pure and linearly independent but we have no knowledge of them. The state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ulrike Herzog , Janos A. Bergou

We consider passive imaging tasks involving discrimination between known candidate objects and investigate the best possible accuracy with which the correct object can be identified. We analytically compute quantum-limited error bounds for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Michael R Grace , Saikat Guha

We find and investigate the optimal scheme of quantum distributed Gaussian sensing for estimation of the average of independent phase shifts. We show that the ultimate sensitivity is achievable by using an entangled symmetric Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 Changhun Oh , Changhyoup Lee , Seok Hyung Lie , Hyunseok Jeong

In this work quantum metrology techniques are applied to the imaging of objects with a non-uniform refractive spatial profile. A sensible improvement on the classical accuracy is shown to be found when the "Twin Beam State" (TWB) is used.…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-21 Giuseppe Ortolano , Ivano Ruo Berchera , Enrico Predazzi

Detecting if and when objects change is difficult in passive sub-diffraction imaging of dynamic scenes. We consider the best possible tradeoff between responsivity and accuracy for detecting a change from one arbitrary object model to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Michael R Grace , Saikat Guha , Zachary Dutton

One of the peculiar features in quantum mechanics is that a superposition of macroscopically distinct states can exits. In optical system, this is highlighted by a superposition of coherent states (SCS), i.e. a superposition of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-19 Shuro Izumi , Masahiro Takeoka , Kentaro Wakui , Mikio Fujiwara , Kazuhiro Ema , Masahide Sasaki

Quantum fidelity is a measure to quantify the closeness of two quantum states. In an operational sense, it is defined as the minimal overlap between the probability distributions of measurement outcomes and the minimum is taken over all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Changhun Oh , Changhyoup Lee , Leonardo Banchi , Su-Yong Lee , Carsten Rockstuhl , Hyunseok Jeong

We present the results of generalized measurements of optical polarization designed to provide one of three or four distinct outcomes. This has allowed us to discriminate between nonorthogonal polarization states with an error probability…

Enhancing quantum illumination with highly entangled probes remains an active area of research. In this context, non-Gaussian operations provide an effective route for engineering probe states that can surpass the standard two-mode squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Luis D. Zambrano Palma , Yusef Maleki , M. Suhail Zubairy

We propose and experimentally demonstrate non-destructive and noiseless removal (filtering) of vacuum states from an arbitrary set of coherent states of continuous variable systems. Errors i.e. vacuum states in the quantum information are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Wittmann , D. Elser , U. L. Andersen , R. Filip , P. Marek , G. Leuchs