Symmetric and asymmetric discrimination of bosonic loss: Toy applications to biological samples and photodegradable materials

We consider quantum discrimination of bosonic loss based on both symmetric and asymmetric hypothesis testing. In both approaches, an entangled resource is able to outperform any classical strategy based on coherent-state transmitters in the regime of low photon numbers. In the symmetric case, we the...

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Main Authors: Pirandola, Stefano, Braunstein, Samuel L., Spedalieri, Gaetana
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119434