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Standard noise radars, as well as noise-type radars such as quantum two-mode squeezing radar, are characterized by a covariance matrix with a very specific structure. This matrix has four independent parameters: the amplitude of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-10 David Luong , Bhashyam Balaji , Sreeraman Rajan

It is widely believed that range resolution, the ability to distinguish between two closely situated targets, depends inversely on the bandwidth of the transmitted radar signal. Here we demonstrate a different type of ranging system, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Rony Komissarov , Vitali Kozlov , Dmitry Filonov , Pavel Ginzburg

Quantum communication is a holy grail to achieve secure communication among a set of partners, since it is provably unbreakable by physical laws. Quantum sensing employs quantum entanglement as an extra resource to determine parameters by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Mikel Sanz , Kirill G. Fedorov , Frank Deppe , Enrique Solano

There has been much recent interest in quantum metrology for applications to sub-Raleigh ranging and remote sensing such as in quantum radar. For quantum radar, atmospheric absorption and diffraction rapidly degrades any actively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 Kebei Jiang , Hwang Lee , Christopher C. Gerry , Jonathan P. Dowling

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

A performance of the pseudo-random method for the radar detection is analyzed. The radar sends a pseudo-random sequence of length $N$, and receives echo from $r$ targets. We assume the natural assumptions of uniformity on the channel and of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alexander Fish , Shamgar Gurevich

Several quantum radar concepts have been proposed that exploit the entanglement found in two-mode squeezed vacuum states of the electromagnetic field, the most prominent being radar based on quantum illumination. Classical radars are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Jonathan N. Blakely , Shawn D. Pethel , Kenneth R. Stewart , Kurt Jacobs

Quantum illumination is an entanglement-based target detection protocol that provides quantum advantages despite the presence of entanglement-breaking noise. However, the advantage of traditional quantum illumination protocols is limited to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Xiaobin Zhao , Zheshen Zhang , Quntao Zhuang

In 2011, Nair published a no-go theorem for quantum radar target detection [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 84}, 032312 (2011)]. He showed, under fairly general assumptions, that a coherent-state radar's error probability was within a factor of two of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Jeffrey H. Shapiro

In the recent decade, it has been discovered that QKD systems are extremely vulnerable to side-channel attacks. In particular, by exploiting the internal working knowledge of practical detectors, it is possible to bring them to an operating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-02 Charles Ci Wen Lim , Nino Walenta , Matthieu Legre , Nicolas Gisin , Hugo Zbinden

It is not clear if the performance of a quantum lidar or radar, without an idler and only using Gaussian resources, could exceed the performance of a semiclassical setup based on coherent states and homodyne detection. Here we prove this is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-07 Gaetana Spedalieri , Stefano Pirandola

The paper addresses the problem of designing radar detectors more robust than Kelly's detector to possible mismatches of the assumed target signature, but with no performance degradation under matched conditions. The idea is to model the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-02 Angelo Coluccia , Giuseppe Ricci , Olivier Besson

Quantum physics has brought enhanced capability in various sensing applications. Despite challenges from noise and loss in the radio-frequency (RF) domain, [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 150502 (2020)] demonstrates a route for enhanced RF-receiver…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Haowei Shi , Christopher M. Jones , Mengjie Yu , Zheshen Zhang , Quntao Zhuang

Quantum LiDAR offers noise resilience and stealth observation capabilities in low-light conditions. In prior demonstrations, the telescope pointing was raster-scanned, making the observation direction predictable from the pointing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Junyeop Kim , Dongjin Lee , Woncheol Shin , Yeoulheon Seong , Heedeuk Shin

In this study, we explore an approach aimed at enhancing the transmission or reflection coefficients of absorbing materials through the utilization of joint measurements of entangled photon states. On the one hand, through the…

Ultrasound and radar signals are highly beneficial for medical imaging as they are non-invasive and non-ionizing. Traditional imaging techniques have limitations in terms of contrast and physical interpretation. Quantitative medical imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Tom Sharon , Yonina C. Eldar

As radar sensors are being miniaturized, there is a growing interest for using them in indoor sensing applications such as indoor drone obstacle avoidance. In those novel scenarios, radars must perform well in dense scenes with a large…

Quantum target ranging, which estimates a target position using entangled photon pairs, is known to offer an error-probability advantage over classical ranging strategies. Yet, realizing this advantage in practice remains challenging, as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Sangwoo Jeon , Yonggi Jo , Jihwan Kim , Zaeill Kim , Duk Y. Kim , Yong Sup Ihn , Su-Yong Lee

This paper examines the application of a Quantum Support Vector Machine (QSVM) for radarbased aerial target classification using micro-Doppler signatures. Classical features are extracted and reduced via Principal Component Analysis (PCA)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Vikas Agnihotri , Jasleen Kaur , Sarvagya Kaushik

Due to the difficulties of implementing joint measurements, quantum illumination schemes that are based on signal-idler entanglement are difficult to implement in practice. For this reason, one may consider quantum-inspired designs of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Gaetana Spedalieri , Stefano Pirandola