Quantum-enhanced quickest change detection of transmission loss
arXiv:2503.12276 · doi:10.1103/czg5-3y3d
Abstract
Augmenting a train of bright phase-modulated laser-light pulses of a coherent communications system with infinitesimally small quantum photons per pulse -- entangled across several time bins -- prepared by splitting squeezed light in a temporal-mode interferometer can dramatically enhance a homodyne receiver's ability to detect a sudden change in the channel loss, by up to a factor that is the inverse of the pre-change loss, without affecting the communications rate. We discuss the quantum limit of quickest change detection, and the problem of joint communications and change detection that our study opens up.
15 pages, 12 figures
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