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Main Authors: Cassina, Silvia, Notarnicola, Michele N., Olivares, Stefano, Allevi, Alessia
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19008
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author Cassina, Silvia
Notarnicola, Michele N.
Olivares, Stefano
Allevi, Alessia
author_facet Cassina, Silvia
Notarnicola, Michele N.
Olivares, Stefano
Allevi, Alessia
contents 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 problem of state discrimination. In this context, hybrid devices, giving access to both particle- and wave-like properties of light, could offer the possibility to better discriminate the sent signals. In this work, we consider a %communication quantum channel exploiting a hybrid receiver embedding Silicon photomultipliers as photon-number-resolving detectors. We retrieve the discrimination error probability and the mutual information between sender and receiver as functions of some relevant experimental parameters in the case of binary phase-shifted coherent states. Our promising results, supported also with numerical simulations and theoretical analysis, foster further using this kind of hybrid receiver in more complex detections schemes.
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spellingShingle On the application of a Silicon photomultiplier-based receiver for binary phase-shift-keying protocols
Cassina, Silvia
Notarnicola, Michele N.
Olivares, Stefano
Allevi, Alessia
Quantum Physics
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 problem of state discrimination. In this context, hybrid devices, giving access to both particle- and wave-like properties of light, could offer the possibility to better discriminate the sent signals. In this work, we consider a %communication quantum channel exploiting a hybrid receiver embedding Silicon photomultipliers as photon-number-resolving detectors. We retrieve the discrimination error probability and the mutual information between sender and receiver as functions of some relevant experimental parameters in the case of binary phase-shifted coherent states. Our promising results, supported also with numerical simulations and theoretical analysis, foster further using this kind of hybrid receiver in more complex detections schemes.
title On the application of a Silicon photomultiplier-based receiver for binary phase-shift-keying protocols
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19008