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Quantum-Enhanced Change Detection and Joint Communication-Detection

Zihao Gong, Saikat Guha

Published Jan 1, 2025• 0 citations
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Abstract

We explore the change detection problem and first analyze joint communication-change detection, examining the trade-off between capacity and latency. We show that TMSV input states enhance performance and identify the optimal receiver.
DOI
10.1364/qsm.2025.qw1b.4

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