Performance Analysis for High-Dimensional Bell-State Quantum Illumination
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Shapiro, Jeffrey H.
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March 3, 2025
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Physics
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Shapiro, J.H. Performance Analysis for High-Dimensional Bell-State Quantum Illumination. Physics 2025, 7, 7.
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Abstract
Quantum illumination (QI) is an entanglement-based protocol for improving LiDAR/radar detection of unresolved targets beyond what a classical LiDAR/radar of the same average transmitted energy can do. Originally proposed by Seth Lloyd as a discrete-variable quantum LiDAR, it was soon shown that his proposal offered no quantum advantage over its best classical competitor. Continuous-variable, specifically Gaussian-state, QI has been shown to offer a true quantum advantage, both in theory and in table-top experiments. Moreover, despite its considerable drawbacks, the microwave version of Gaussian-state QI continues to attract research attention. A recent QI study by Armanpreet Pannu, Amr Helmy, and Hesham El Gamal (PHE), however, has: (i) combined the entangled state from Lloyd’s QI with the channel models from Gaussian-state QI; (ii) proposed a new positive operator-valued measurement for that composite setup; and (iii) claimed that, unlike Gaussian-state QI, PHE QI achieves the Nair–Gu lower bound on QI target-detection error probability at all noise brightnesses. PHE’s analysis was asymptotic, i.e., it presumed infinite-dimensional entanglement. The current paper works out the finite-dimensional performance of PHE QI. It shows that there is a threshold value for the entangled-state dimensionality below which there is no quantum advantage, and above which the Nair–Gu bound is approached asymptotically. Moreover, with both systems operating with error-probability exponents 1 dB lower than the Nair–Gu bound, PHE QI requires enormously higher entangled-state dimensionality than does Gaussian-state QI to achieve useful error probabilities in both high-brightness (100 photons/mode) and moderate-brightness (1 photon/mode) noise. Furthermore, neither system has an appreciable quantum advantage in low-brightness (much less than 1 photon/mode) noise.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
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