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Quantum Information and Measurement (QIM)

Higher-resolution imaging of distant sources using imperfect quantum resources.

Siddhartha Santra, Brian T. Kirby, Alejandra Maldonado-Trapp, Michael Brodsky

Published Jan 1, 2017• 1 citation
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Abstract

We show how the baseline size between telescopes, that determines the angular resolution, used in optical interferometric arrays can be increased by using a shared, possibly non-maximally-entangled, quantum state. We analyse how the rate of entagled-state production in the quantum repeater network needs to scale with the baseline size while maintaining interferometric sensitivity.

DOI
10.1364/qim.2017.qf6c.6

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