Infinite-fold Asymptotic Quantum Advantage in Classical Correlation Sensing

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Main Authors: Nötzel, Janis, Munar-Vallespir, Pere
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author Nötzel, Janis
Munar-Vallespir, Pere
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Munar-Vallespir, Pere
contents We study the hypothesis testing problem of distinguishing between correlated thermal noise and uncorrelated thermal noise of the same average energy on $K$ detectors in asymptotic asymmetric hypothesis testing. We compare the performance of heterodyne or homodyne detection with classical post-processing, the most general quantum strategy (involving any arbitrary measurement), and a simple strategy involving a photonic chip and On-Off detection. When the average received energy per detector goes to zero, the photonic chip strategy asymptotically achieves the optimal decrease in the error, while heterodyne/homodyne measurements do not. Thus, we show that linear optics and On-Off measurement are enough to achieve better detection than classical methods when detecting correlations in thermal optical signals.
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spellingShingle Infinite-fold Asymptotic Quantum Advantage in Classical Correlation Sensing
Nötzel, Janis
Munar-Vallespir, Pere
Quantum Physics
Information Theory
We study the hypothesis testing problem of distinguishing between correlated thermal noise and uncorrelated thermal noise of the same average energy on $K$ detectors in asymptotic asymmetric hypothesis testing. We compare the performance of heterodyne or homodyne detection with classical post-processing, the most general quantum strategy (involving any arbitrary measurement), and a simple strategy involving a photonic chip and On-Off detection. When the average received energy per detector goes to zero, the photonic chip strategy asymptotically achieves the optimal decrease in the error, while heterodyne/homodyne measurements do not. Thus, we show that linear optics and On-Off measurement are enough to achieve better detection than classical methods when detecting correlations in thermal optical signals.
title Infinite-fold Asymptotic Quantum Advantage in Classical Correlation Sensing
topic Quantum Physics
Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17235