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The signal half of an entangled twin-beam, generated using spontaneous parametric downconversion, interrogates a region of space that is suspected of containing a target, and has high loss and high (entanglement-breaking) background noise.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Saikat Guha , Baris I. Erkmen

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

This paper solves the open problem of characterizing the performance of quantum illumination (QI) with discrete variable states. By devising a novel quantum measurement approach along with meticulous analysis, our investigation demonstrates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Armanpreet Pannu , Amr S. Helmy , Hesham El Gamal

The quantum illumination technique requires joint measurement between the idler and the probe reflected from the low-reflective target present in a noisy environment. The joint measurement is only possible with prior knowledge about the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Sankar Davuluri , Greeshma Gopinath , Matt J. Woolley

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

The paradigm of quantum metrology and sensing aims to identify a quantum advantage in precision at a fixed energy of the probe state. However, in practice, employing high-energy classical probes is often simpler than leveraging the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Giuseppe Ortolano , Ivano Ruo-Berchera , Leonardo Banchi

It has been shown recently (Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 090504 (2011)) that entangled light with Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) correlations retrieves information from digital memory better than any classical light. In identifying this, a model of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-21 J. Prabhu Tej , A. R. Usha Devi , A. K. Rajagopal

A quantum receiver is an essential element of quantum illumination (QI) which outperforms its classical counterpart, called classical-illumination (CI). However, there are only few proposals for realizable quantum receiver, which exploits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-08 Yonggi Jo , Sangkyung Lee , Yong Sup Ihn , Zaeill Kim , Su-Yong Lee

Quantum hypothesis testing is one of the most basic tasks in quantum information theory and has fundamental links with quantum communication and estimation theory. In this paper, we establish a formula that characterizes the decay rate of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-24 Mark M. Wilde , Marco Tomamichel , Seth Lloyd , Mario Berta

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 covert target detection, Alice attempts to send optical or microwave probes to determine the presence or absence of a weakly-reflecting target embedded in thermal background radiation within a target region, while striving to remain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Guo Yao Tham , Ranjith Nair , Mile Gu

Quantum illumination utilizes an entanglement-enhanced sensing system to outperform classical illumination in detecting a suspected target, despite the entanglement-breaking loss and noise. However, practical and optimal receiver design to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Xin Chen , Quntao Zhuang

Quantum reading aims at retrieving classical information stored in an optical memory with low energy and high accuracy by exploiting the inherently quantum properties of light. We provide an optimal Gaussian strategy for quantum reading…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-08 Michele Dall'Arno

Quantum illumination leverages entanglement to surpass classical target detection, even in high-noise environments. Remarkably, its quantum advantage persists despite entanglement degradation caused by environmental decoherence. A central…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Xin Chen , Zhibin Ye

A quantum illumination protocol exploits correlated light beams to enhance the probability of detection of a partially reflecting object lying in a very noisy background. Recently a simple photon-number-detection based implementation of a…

Entanglement is vulnerable to degradation in a noisy sensing scenario, but surprisingly, the quantum illumination protocol has demonstrated that its advantage can survive. However, designing a measurement system that realizes this advantage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Jacopo Angeletti , Haowei Shi , Theerthagiri Lakshmanan , David Vitali , Quntao Zhuang

Advances in quantum technologies are accelerating the demand for optical quantum state sensors that combine high precision, versatility, and scalability within a unified hardware platform. Quantum reservoir computing offers a powerful route…

In quantum illumination (QI) the non-classical correlations between continuous variable (CV) entangled modes of radiation are exploited to detect the presence of a target embedded in thermal noise. The extreme environment where QI…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Hany Khalifa , Kirill Petrovnin , Riku Jäntti , Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

In the last years the exploitation of specific properties of quantum states has disclosed the possibility of realising tasks beyond classical limits, creating the new field of quantum technologies [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. Among them,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 E. D. Lopaeva , I. Ruo Berchera , S. Olivares , G. Brida , I. P. Degiovanni , M. Genovese

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