Comment on J. N. Blakely, “Quantum illumination with a parametrically amplified idler” [Phys. Lett. A 400 (2021) 127319]

Roberto Di Candia; Maximilian Reichert; Quntao Zhuang; Jeffrey H. Shapiro

doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2023.129116

Comment on J. N. Blakely, “Quantum illumination with a parametrically amplified idler” [Phys. Lett. A 400 (2021) 127319]

Roberto Di Candia^*
, Maximilian Reichert
, Quntao Zhuang
, Jeffrey H. Shapiro

^*Corresponding author for this work

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We show that the quantum illumination setup proposed in Blakely (2021) [1] does not afford any quantum advantage over a coherent-state transmitter.

Original language	English
Article number	129116
Number of pages	2
Journal	Physics Letters. Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
Volume	487
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2023.129116
Publication status	Published - 5 Nov 2023
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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R.D. acknowledges support from the Academy of Finland , grants no. 353832 and 349199 . M.R. acknowledges support from the UPV/EHU PhD Grant PIF21/289 and from the QUANTEK project from ELKARTEK program ( KK-2021/00070 ). Q.Z. acknowledges support from National Science Foundation CAREER Award CCF-2142882 , Office of Naval Research Grant No. N00014-23-1-2296 and Cisco Systems, Inc. J.H.S. acknowledges support from the MITRE Corporation's Quantum Moonshot Program .

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In: Physics Letters. Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics, Vol. 487, 129116, 05.11.2023.

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