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Quantum target detection is an emerging application that utilizes entanglement to enhance the sensing of the presence of an object. Although several experimental demonstrations for certain situations have been reported recently, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Feixiang Xu , Xiao-Ming Zhang , Liang Xu , Tao Jiang , Man-Hong Yung , Lijian Zhang

Object detection and range finding using a weak light source is vulnerable to jamming and spoofing attacks by an intruder. Quantum illumination with nonsimultaneous, phase-insensitive coincidence measurements can provide jamming resilience…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Richard J. Murchie , John Jeffers

Quantum sensors hold considerable promise for precision measurement, yet their capabilities are inherently constrained by environmental noise. A fundamental task in quantum sensing is determining the precision limit of noisy sensor devices.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Dayou Yang , Moulik Ketkar , Koenraad Audenaert , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Critical phenomena of quantum systems offer a promising strategy to improve measurement precision. So far, many criticality-enhanced quantum metrological schemes have been proposed by using the adiabatically evolved photonic states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Ken Chen , Jia-Hao Lv , Wen Ning , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

In recent years, distributed quantum sensing has gained interest for a range of applications requiring networks of sensors, from global-scale clock synchronization to high energy physics. In particular, a network of entangled sensors can…

Fault-tolerant quantum computers promise the simulation of complex quantum systems beyond the reach of classical computation. In contrast, current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices are constrained by hardware noise.…

Here we find the increase in 1/f noise of superconducting resonators at low temperatures to be completely incompatible with the standard tunneling model (STM) of Two Level Systems (TLS), which has been used to describe low-frequency noise…

While quantum illumination (QI) can offer a quantum-enhancement in target detection, its potential for performing target ranging remains unclear. With its capabilities hinging on a joint-measurement between a returning signal and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Athena Karsa , Stefano Pirandola

We describe a resource-efficient approach to studying many-body quantum states on noisy, intermediate-scale quantum devices. We employ a sequential generation model that allows us to bound the range of correlations in the resulting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 Johannes Borregaard , Matthias Christandl , Daniel Stilck França

Overlap-based distinguishability measures, such as fidelity- or Chernoff-type quantities, play a central role in quantum sensing and quantum illumination. In strongly lossy and fluctuating environments, however, these quantities may become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Arnaud Coatanhay , Angélique Drémeau

We analyze quantum metrological protocols, where the sensing system is linearly coupled to a bosonic environment, by performing a Markovian embedding of the problem based on pseudomode formalism. This allows us to effectively model the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Arpan Das , Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański

Parameterized Quantum Circuits (PQCs) have been acknowledged as a leading strategy to utilize near-term quantum advantages in multiple problems, including machine learning and combinatorial optimization. When applied to specific tasks, the…

Cross-correlation heterodyne detectors exhibit the potential for suppression of the detection quantum noise below shot noise without use of optical squeezing for capturing weak optical signals in low frequency bands. To understand the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Sheng Feng , Kaikai Wu

In the highly non-Gaussian regime, the quantum Ziv-Zakai bound (QZZB) provides a lower bound on the available precision, demonstrating the better performance compared with the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound. However, evaluating the impact of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Shoukang Chang , Wei Ye , Xuan Rao , Huan Zhang , Mengmeng Luo , Yuetao Chen , Shaoyan Gao , Liyun Hu

We propose a theoretical scheme to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio in ultrasensitive detection with the help of quantum correlation. By introducing the auxiliary oscillator and treated as an added probe for weak field detection, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Wen-Zhao Zhang , Li-Bo Chen , Jiong Cheng , Yun-Feng Jiang

We address the role of the phase-insensitive trusted preparation and detection noise in the security of a continuous-variable quantum key distribution, considering the Gaussian protocols on the basis of coherent and squeezed states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 Vladyslav C. Usenko , Radim Filip

Noise is the main obstacle for the realization of fault tolerant quantum information processing and secure communication over long distances. In this work, we propose a communication protocol relying on simple linear optics that optimally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Mikael Lassen , Adriano Berni , Lars S. Madsen , Radim Filip , Ulrik L. Andersen

Entangled systems with large quantum Fisher information (QFI) can be used to outperform the standard quantum limit of the separable systems in quantum metrology. However, the interaction between the system and the environments inevitably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 Guofeng Zhang , Hanjie Zhu

We study the problem of simulating protocols in a quantum communication setting over noisy channels. This problem falls at the intersection of quantum information theory and quantum communication complexity, and it will be of importance for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Gilles Brassard , Ashwin Nayak , Alain Tapp , Dave Touchette , Falk Unger

A method to study strongly interacting quantum many-body systems at and away from criticality is proposed. The method is based on a MERA-like tensor network that can be efficiently and reliably contracted on a noisy quantum computer using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Isaac H. Kim , Brian Swingle