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The significant progress of quantum sensing technologies offer numerous radical solutions for measuring a multitude of physical quantities at an unprecedented precision. Among them, Rydberg atomic quantum receivers (RAQRs) emerge as an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Tierui Gong , Jiaming Sun , Chau Yuen , Guangwei Hu , Yufei Zhao , Yong Liang Guan , Chong Meng Samson See , Mérouane Debbah , Lajos Hanzo

Rydberg atomic quantum receivers have been seen as novel radio frequency measurements and the high sensitivity to a large range of frequencies makes it attractive for communications reception. However, current implementations of Rydberg…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Hao Wu , Shanchi Wu , Xinyuan Yao , Rui Ni , Chen Gong

Quantum sensing has attracted significant attention due to its ability to measure physical quantities with extremely high accuracy. Rydberg atoms - typically alkali atoms with a highly excited valence electron that is far from the nucleus -…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Javane Rostampoor , Raviraj Adve

Recently, we introduced a Rydberg-atom based mixer capable of detecting and measuring the phase of a radio-frequency field through the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and Autler-Townes (AT) effect. The ability to measure…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-09-10 Christopher L. Holloway , Matthew T. Simons , Joshua A. Gordon , David Novotny

Parametric channel estimation in mmWave not only enables the anticipated large spectral efficiency gains of \acs{MIMO} systems but also reveals important propagation parameters, allowing for a low complexity representation of the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Álvaro Callejas-Ramos , Matilde Sánchez-Fernández , Antonia Tulino , Jaime Llorca

An optical probe of cesium Rydberg atoms generated in a thermal vapor cell is used to retrieve a baseband signal modulated onto a 16.98-GHz carrier wave in real-time, demonstrating an atom-based quantum receiver suitable for microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Yuechun Jiao , Xiaoxuan Han , Jiabei Fan , Georg Raithel , Jianming Zhao , Suotang Jia

Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) is an innovative technology to improve wireless network capacity by adjusting 3D positions and 3D rotations of antenna surfaces based on channel spatial distribution. However, the existing works on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang , Qijun Jiang , Jihong Park , Tony Q. S. Quek , Robert Schober

In time-varying fading channels, channel coefficients are estimated using pilot symbols that are transmitted every coherence interval. For channels with high Doppler spread, the rapid channel variations over time will require considerable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Sandesh Rao Mattu , Lakshmi Narasimhan T , A. Chockalingam

Rydberg atomic receivers offer a quantum-native alternative to conventional RF front-ends by directly detecting electromagnetic fields via highly excited atomic states. While their quantum-limited sensitivity and hardware simplicity make…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Jiuyu Liu , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

A highly excited Rydberg atom via electromagnetically induced transparency with two color cascading lasers has extreme sensitivity to electric fields of microwave ranging from 100 MHz to over 1 THz. It can be used as susceptible atom-based…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 M. H. Cai , Z. S. Xu , S. H. You , H. P. Liu

Ground-satellite links for 6G networks face critical challenges, including severe path loss, tight size-weight-power limits, and congested spectrum, all of which significantly hinder the performance of traditional radio frequency (RF) front…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Qihao Peng , Tierui Gong , Zihang Song , Qu Luo , Zihuai Lin , Pei Xiao , Chau Yuen

With the development of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, implementing AI-based techniques to improve wireless transceivers becomes an emerging research topic. Within this context, AI-based channel characterization and estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Yuzhi Yang , Sen Yan , Weijie Zhou , Brahim Mefgouda , Ridong Li , Zhaoyang Zhang , Mérouane Debbah

Atomic-scale imaging offers a reliable tool to directly measure the movement of microscopic particles. We present a scheme for achieving a nondestructive and ultrasensitive imaging of Rydberg atoms within an ensemble of cold probe atoms.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Xiaoguang Huo , J. F. Chen , Jing Qian , Weiping Zhang

This letter introduces a structured high-rank tensor approach for estimating sub-6G uplink channels in multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. To tackle the difficulty of channel estimation in sub-6G bands with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Panqi Chen , Lei Cheng

We propose super-resolution MIMO channel estimators for millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems that employ hybrid analog and digital beamforming and generalized spatial modulation, respectively. Exploiting the inherent sparsity of mmWave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Hongyun Chu , Le Zheng , Xiaodong Wang

Pixel-based fluid antennas provide enhanced multiplexing gains and quicker radiation pattern switching than traditional designs. However, this innovation introduces challenges for channel estimation and analog precoding due to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Huayan Guo , Jichen Zhang , Junhui Rao , Ross Murch , Vincent K. N. Lau

Research on machine learning for channel estimation, especially neural network solutions for wireless communications, is attracting significant current interest. This is because conventional methods cannot meet the present demands of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Dianxin Luan , John Thompson

Microwave electric field sensing is of importance for a wide range of applications in areas of remote sensing, radar astronomy and communications. Over the past decade, Rydberg atoms, owing to their exaggerated response to microwave…

Rydberg atom-based radio frequency electromagnetic field sensors are drawing wide-spread interest because of their unique properties, such as small size, dielectric construction, and self-calibration. These photonic sensors use lasers to…

We propose a novel deep learning-based channel estimation technique for high-dimensional communication signals that does not require any training. Our method is broadly applicable to channel estimation for multicarrier signals with any…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-23 Eren Balevi , Jeffrey G. Andrews