Entanglement-assisted detection of fading targets via correlation-to-coherence conversion
arXiv:2212.08190 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.107.062405
Abstract
Quantum illumination utilizes an entanglement-enhanced sensing system to outperform classical illumination in detecting a suspected target, despite the entanglement-breaking loss and noise. However, practical and optimal receiver design to fulfil the quantum advantage has been a long open problem. Recently, [arXiv:2207.06609] proposed the correlation-to-displacement (`CD') conversion module to enable an optimal receiver design that greatly reduces the complexity of the previous known optimal receiver [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 118}, 040801 (2017)]. There, the analyses of the conversion module assume an ideal target with a known reflectivity and a fixed return phase. In practical applications, however, targets often induce a random return phase; moreover, their reflectivities can have fluctuations obeying a Rayleigh-distribution. In this work, we extend the analyses of the CD module to realistic targets and show that the entanglement advantage is maintained albeit reduced. In particular, the conversion module allows exact and efficient performance evaluation despite the non-Gaussian nature of the quantum channel involved.
arXiv comment9 pages, 7 figures
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