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Quantum communications in continuous variable systems
Michele N. Notarnicola
Nowadays, quantum communications provide a vast field of research in rapid expansion, with a huge potential impact on the future developments of quantum technologies. In particular…
Evaluating the performance of a weak-field homodyne receiver in quadrature phase-shift keying optical communication
Silvia Cassina, Alex Pozzoli, Michele N. Notarnicola +3
Quantum communication protocols require efficient detection schemes to maximize the information transfer rate between the sender and the receiver. To this aim, we have demonstrated…
Deterministic feedforward-based generation of large optical coherent-state superposition
Michele N. Notarnicola, Marcin Jarzyna, Radim Filip
Large optical coherent-state superpositions are essential to advance quantum sensing, quantum repeaters and error-correction codes. We propose a deterministic feedforward protocol…
Discrete-modulation continuous-variable quantum key distribution with probabilistic amplitude shaping over a linear quantum channel
Emanuele Parente, Michele N. Notarnicola, Stefano Olivares +3
The practical implementation difficulties arising from the Gaussian modulation of the GG02 protocol lead us to investigate the possibilities offered by the combination of probabili…
Nonlocal continuous-variable gates by amplified optical connections
Michele N. Notarnicola, Radim Filip
Nonlocal quantum gates, coupling quantum systems located at a distance, are crucial for distributed quantum computing. To this aim, high-capacity optical noiseless connections betw…
On the application of a Silicon photomultiplier-based receiver for binary phase-shift-keying protocols
Silvia Cassina, Michele N. Notarnicola, Stefano Olivares +1
Over the past decade, binary phase-shift keying %communication encoding has been used as a benchmark to test the performance of different detection strategies to address the proble…
Assessing a binary quantum channel exploiting a Silicon photomultiplier based hybrid receiver
Alberto Sanvito, Silvia Cassina, Marco Lamperti +3
In quantum communication protocols, the use of photon-number-resolving detectors could open new perspectives by broadening the way to encode and decode information, and merging the…
Joint estimation of noise and nonlinearity in Kerr systems
Michele N. Notarnicola, Stefano Olivares, Matteo G. A. Paris
We address characterization of lossy and dephasing channels in the presence of self-Kerr interaction using coherent probes. In particular, we investigate the ultimate bounds to pre…
Employing weak-field homodyne detection for quantum communications
Michele N. Notarnicola, Stefano Olivares
We investigate the role of weak-field homodyne (WF) measurement for quantum communications over a lossy bosonic channel with coherent state encoding. This kind of receiver employs…
A robust hybrid receiver for binary phase-shift keying discrimination in the presence of phase noise
Michele N. Notarnicola, Stefano Olivares
We address the problem of coherent state discrimination in the presence of phase diffusion. We investigate the role of the hybrid near-optimum receiver (HYNORE) we proposed in [J.…
Continuous-variable quantum key distribution over multispan links employing phase-insensitive and phase-sensitive amplifiers
Michele N. Notarnicola, Filip Cieciuch, Marcin Jarzyna
Transmission losses through optical fibers are one of the main obstacles preventing both long-distance quantum communications and continuous-variable quantum key distribution. Opti…
Beating the standard quantum limit for binary phase-shift-keying discrimination with a realistic hybrid feed-forward receiver
Michele N. Notarnicola, Stefano Olivares
We propose a hybrid feed-forward receiver (HFFRE) for the discrimination of binary phase-shift-keyed coherent states based on the appropriate combination of a displacement feed-for…
Optimizing state-discrimination receivers for continuous-variable quantum key distribution over a wiretap channel
Michele N. Notarnicola, Marcin Jarzyna, Stefano Olivares +1
We address a continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) protocol employing quaternary phase-shift-keying (QPSK) of coherent states and a non-Gaussian measurement inspire…
Long-distance continuous-variable quantum key distribution with feasible physical noiseless linear amplifiers
Michele N. Notarnicola, Stefano Olivares
Noiseless linear amplifiers (NLAs) provide a powerful tool to achieve long-distance continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) in the presence of realistic setups with n…
Entanglement recovery in noisy binary quantum information protocols via three-qubit quantum error correction codes
Alessio Morea, Michele N. Notarnicola, Stefano Olivares
The task of preserving entanglement against noises is of crucial importance for both quantum communication and quantum information transfer. To this aim, quantum error correction (…
Probabilistic amplitude shaping for continuous-variable quantum key distribution with discrete modulation over a wiretap channel
Michele N. Notarnicola, Stefano Olivares, Enrico Forestieri +3
To achieve the maximum information transfer and face a possible eavesdropper, the samples transmitted in continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) protocols are to be d…
Hybrid near-optimum binary receiver with realistic photon-number-resolving detectors
Michele N. Notarnicola, Matteo G. A. Paris, Stefano Olivares
We propose a near-optimum receiver for the discrimination of binary phase-shift-keyed coherent states employing photon-number-resolving detectors. The receiver exploits a discrimin…