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Entangled Sensor Networks Empowered by Machine Learning

Yi Xia, Wei Li, William Clark, Darlene Hart, Quntao Zhuang, Zheshen Zhang

Published Jan 1, 2021• 0 citations

Abstract

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a reconfigurable radio-frequency photonic sensor network based on continuous-variable multipartite entanglement. We further show that the entangled sensor network can be trained to undertake quantum-enhanced data classification tasks.

DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2021.th3a.4

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