Spedalieri, Gaetana, Pirandola, Stefano orcid.org/0000-0001-6165-5615 and Braunstein, Samuel L. orcid.org/0000-0003-4790-136X (2018) Symmetric and asymmetric discrimination of bosonic loss:Toy applications to biological samples and photo-degradable materials. Physical Review A. 053836. ISSN 1094-1622
Abstract
We consider quantum discrimination of bosonic loss based on both symmetric and asymmetric hypothesis testing. In both approaches, an entangled resource is able to outperform any classical strategy based on coherent-state transmitters in the regime of low photon numbers. In the symmetric case, we then consider the low energy detection of bacterial growth in culture media. Assuming an exponential growth law for the bacterial concentration and the Beer-Lambert law for the optical transmissivity of the sample, we find that the use of entanglement allows one to achieve a much faster detection of growth with respect to the use of coherent states. This performance is also studied by assuming an exponential photo-degradable model, where the concentration is reduced by increasing the number of photons irradiated over the sample. This investigation is then extended to the readout of classical information from suitably-designed photo-degradable optical memories.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | ©2018 American Physical Society. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | quant-ph,cond-mat.other,physics.bio-ph,physics.optics |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Computer Science (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2018 17:10 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 15:15 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.053836 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1103/PhysRevA.98.053836 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:138457 |