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Frontiers in Optics

Communicating via ignorance & imaging via counting

Andrew G. White

Published Jan 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

We use quantum technologies to improve communication and imaging. Significant information is transmitted through a completely noisy channel using indefinite causal order. Imaging remote bodies via photon-counting is an order-of-magnitude more precise than traditional methods.
DOI
10.1364/ls.2019.ltu1d.1

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