Quantum Illumination with a generic Gaussian source

Athena Karsa; Gaetana Spedalieri; Quntao Zhuang; Stefano Pirandola

doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023414

Quantum Illumination with a generic Gaussian source

Athena Karsa, Gaetana Spedalieri, Quntao Zhuang, Stefano Pirandola

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Abstract

With the aim to loosen the entanglement requirements of quantum illumination, we study the performance of a family of Gaussian states at the transmitter, combined with an optimal and joint quantum measurement at the receiver. We find that maximal entanglement is not strictly necessary to achieve quantum advantage over the classical benchmark of a coherent-state transmitter, in both settings of symmetric and asymmetric hypothesis testing. While performing this quantum-classical comparison, we also investigate a suitable regime of parameters for potential short-range radar (or scanner) applications.

Original language	English
Article number	023414
Number of pages	9
Journal	Physical Review Research
Volume	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023414
Publication status	Published - 30 Jun 2020

Bibliographical note

Accepted version. 10 pages. 3 figures. REVTeX

Keywords

quant-ph
physics.app-ph
physics.optics

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