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We consider the selective sensing of planar waves in the presence of noise. We present different methods to control the sensitivity of a quantum sensor network, which allow one to decouple it from arbitrarily selected waves while retaining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Arne Hamann , Paul Aigner , Pavel Sekatski , Wolfgang Dür

We introduce noise-adaptive quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols, in which the honest parties optimize the encoding (state preparation) and decoding (measurement basis) operations according to the noise models affecting the honest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Abinash Kar , Ayan Patra , Aditi Sen De , Tamoghna Das

We consider distributed sensing of non-local quantities. We introduce quantum enhanced protocols to directly measure any (scalar) field with a specific spatial dependence by placing sensors at appropriate positions and preparing a spatially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Pavel Sekatski , Sabine Wölk , Wolfgang Dür

The decoherence phenomenon inevitably exists in quantum computing processes. Consequently, dynamic suppression of decoherence for instance via dynamical decoupling, quantum error correction codes (QECC) etc. is crucial in accurately…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Lian-Ao Wu

Quantum key distribution (QKD) enables two remote parties to grow a shared key which they can use for unconditionally secure communication [1]. The applicable distance of a QKD protocol depends on the loss and the excess noise of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-08 Lars S. Madsen , Vladyslav C. Usenko , Mikael Lassen , Radim Filip , Ulrik L. Andersen

Certifying quantum properties from the probability distributions they induce is an important task for several purposes. While this framework has been largely explored and used for quantum states, its extrapolation to the level of channels…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Albert Rico , Moisés Bermejo Morán , Fereshte Shahbeigi , Karol Życzkowski

The inherent noise and complexity of quantum communication networks leads to challenges in designing quantum network protocols using classical methods. To address this issue, we develop a variational quantum optimization framework that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Brian Doolittle , Tom Bromley , Nathan Killoran , Eric Chitambar

Entangled quantum probes can achieve Heisenberg-limited measurement precision, but this advantage is typically destroyed by noise. We address this issue by introducing a framework that we call encoded quantum signal processing, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Carlos Ortiz Marrero , Rui Jie Tang , Nathan Wiebe

In this article, we explore the possibility of achieving noise suppression for finite-dimensional quantum systems through coherent feedback. For a quantum plant which is expected to evolve according to a target trajectory, noise effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Shikun Zhang , Guofeng Zhang

Quantum computers have enabled solving problems beyond the current computers' capabilities. However, this requires handling noise arising from unwanted interactions in these systems. Several protocols have been proposed to address efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Ali Shaib , Mohamad H. Naim , Mohammed E. Fouda , Rouwaida Kanj , Fadi Kurdahi

In the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, quantum error mitigation (QEM) is essential for producing reliable outputs from quantum circuits. We present a statistical signal processing approach to QEM that estimates the most likely…

Quantum network protocols offer new functionalities such as enhanced security to communication and computational systems. Despite the rapid progress in quantum hardware, it has not yet reached a level of maturity that enables execution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 Chin-Te Liao , Sima Bahrani , Francisco Ferreira da Silva , Elham Kashefi

Quantum systems can be controlled by other quantum systems in a reversible way, without any information leaking to the outside of the system-controller compound. Such coherent quantum control is deterministic, is less noisy than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Thomas Konrad , Amy Rouillard , Michael Kastner , Hermann Uys

Previous studies in quantum information have recognized that specific types of noise can encode information in certain applications. However, the role of noise in Quantum Hypothesis Testing (QHT), traditionally assumed to undermine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Qing Li , Lingna Wang , Min Jiang , Ze Wu , Haidong Yuan , Xinhua Peng

The effect of noise on various protocols of secure quantum communication has been studied. Specifically, we have investigated the effect of amplitude damping, phase damping, squeezed generalized amplitude damping, Pauli type as well as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Vishal Sharma , Kishore Thapliyal , Anirban Pathak , Subhashish Banerjee

Quantum effect enables enhanced estimation precision in metrology, with the Heisenberg limit (HL) representing the ultimate limit allowed by quantum mechanics. Although the HL is generally unattainable in the presence of noise, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Himanshu Sahu , Qian Xu , Sisi Zhou

Creating robust quantum operations is a major challenge in the current noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing era. Recently, the importance of noise-resilient control methods has become more pronounced in the field. Ordinarily, noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Robert de Keijzer , Luke Visser , Oliver Tse , Servaas Kokkelmans

We establish general limits on how precise a parameter, e.g. frequency or the strength of a magnetic field, can be estimated with the aid of full and fast quantum control. We consider uncorrelated noisy evolutions of N qubits and show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Pavel Sekatski , Michalis Skotiniotis , Janek Kołodyński , Wolfgang Dür

To realize the Quantum Internet, quantum communications require pre-shared entanglement among quantum nodes. However, both the generation and the distribution of the maximally-entangled quantum states are inherently contaminated by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Daryus Chandra , Angela Sara Cacciapuoti , Marcello Caleffi , Lajos Hanzo

The quantum dense coding (DC) protocol, which has no security feature, deals with the transmission of classical information encoded in a quantum state by using shared entanglement between a single sender and a single receiver. Its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Ayan Patra , Rivu Gupta , Tamoghna Das , Aditi Sen De