2013/03/18 by E. D. Lopaeva, I. Ruo Berchera, I. P. Degiovanni +3 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.110.153603
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 153603 (2013) · PRL in press
arxiv created 2013/03/18 · arxiv updated 2013/04/12
We present the first experimental realisation of the quantum illumination protocol proposed in Ref.s [S. Lloyd, Science 321, 1463 (2008); S. Tan et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 253601 (2008)], achieved in a simple feasible experimental scheme based on photon-number correlations. A main achievement of our result is the demonstration of a strong robustness of the quantum protocol to noise and losses, that challenges some widespread wisdom about quantum technologies.