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| author | Wang, Yunkai Zhou, Sisi |
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| contents | Imaging thermal sources naturally yields Gaussian states at the receiver, raising the question of whether Gaussian measurements can perform optimally in quantum imaging. In this work, we establish no-go theorems on the performance of Gaussian measurements for imaging thermal sources in the limit of mean photon number per temporal mode $ε\to 0$ or source size $L \to 0$. We show that non-Gaussian measurements can outperform any Gaussian measurement in the scaling of the estimation variance with $ε$ (or $L$). We also present several examples to illustrate the no-go results. |
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| spellingShingle | Limitations of Gaussian measurements in quantum imaging Wang, Yunkai Zhou, Sisi Quantum Physics Imaging thermal sources naturally yields Gaussian states at the receiver, raising the question of whether Gaussian measurements can perform optimally in quantum imaging. In this work, we establish no-go theorems on the performance of Gaussian measurements for imaging thermal sources in the limit of mean photon number per temporal mode $ε\to 0$ or source size $L \to 0$. We show that non-Gaussian measurements can outperform any Gaussian measurement in the scaling of the estimation variance with $ε$ (or $L$). We also present several examples to illustrate the no-go results. |
| title | Limitations of Gaussian measurements in quantum imaging |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06363 |