Advances in photonic quantum sensing

S Pirandola, BR Bardhan, T Gehring, C Weedbrook… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Quantum sensing has become a broad field. It is generally related with the idea of using
quantum resources to boost the performance of a number of practical tasks, including the …

Advances in quantum radar and quantum LiDAR

RG Torromé, S Barzanjeh - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Quantum sensing, built upon fundamental quantum phenomena like entanglement and
squeezing, is revolutionizing precision and sensitivity across diverse domains, including …

[HTML][HTML] Photonic quantum metrology

E Polino, M Valeri, N Spagnolo, F Sciarrino - AVS Quantum Science, 2020‏ - pubs.aip.org
Quantum metrology is one of the most promising applications of quantum technologies. The
aim of this research field is the estimation of unknown parameters exploiting quantum …

Quantum advantage in microwave quantum radar

R Assouly, R Dassonneville, T Peronnin, A Bienfait… - Nature Physics, 2023‏ - nature.com
A central goal of any quantum technology consists in demonstrating an advantage in their
performance compared to the best possible classical implementation. A quantum radar …

Imaging through noise with quantum illumination

T Gregory, PA Moreau, E Toninelli, MJ Padgett - Science advances, 2020‏ - science.org
The contrast of an image can be degraded by the presence of background light and sensor
noise. To overcome this degradation, quantum illumination protocols have been theorized …

Critical parametric quantum sensing

R Di Candia, F Minganti, KV Petrovnin… - npj Quantum …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Critical quantum systems are a promising resource for quantum metrology applications, due
to the diverging susceptibility developed in proximity of phase transitions. Here, we assess …

Fundamental limits of quantum illumination

R Nair, M Gu - Optica, 2020‏ - opg.optica.org
In quantum illumination (QI), a signal beam initially entangled with an idler beam held at the
receiver interrogates a target region bathed in thermal background light. The returned beam …

Quantum illumination with a hetero-homodyne receiver and sequential detection

M Reichert, Q Zhuang, JH Shapiro, R Di Candia - Physical Review Applied, 2023‏ - APS
We propose a hetero-homodyne receiver for quantum illumination (QI) target detection.
Unlike prior QI receivers, it uses a cascaded positive operator-valued measurement (POVM) …

Propagating quantum microwaves: towards applications in communication and sensing

M Casariego, EZ Cruzeiro, S Gherardini… - Quantum Science …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The field of propagating quantum microwaves is a relatively new area of research that is
receiving increased attention due to its promising technological applications, both in …

Microwave photon detection at parametric criticality

K Petrovnin, J Wang, M Perelshtein, P Hakonen… - PRX Quantum, 2024‏ - APS
The detection of microwave fields at single-photon power levels is a much-sought-after
technology, with practical applications in nanoelectronics and quantum information science …