Experimental Realization of Quantum Illumination
E. D. Lopaeva, Ivano Ruo Berchera, Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, S. Olivares, G. Brida, Marco Genovese · Physical Review Letters · 2013
We present the first experimental realization of the quantum illumination protocol proposed by Lloyd [Science 321, 1463 (2008)] and 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.