Quantum-enhanced passive remote sensing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05455v1
• Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 11:14:33 GMT
• Title: Quantum-enhanced passive remote sensing
• Authors: Emre K\"ose, Gerardo Adesso and Daniel Braun
• Abstract summary: We give a fully quantum mechanical analysis of the problem, starting from thermal distributions of microscopic currents on the surface to be imaged. We derive the optimal detection modes and measurement schemes that allow one to saturate the quantum Cram'er-Rao bound. For parameters comparable to those of SMOS, a quantum enhancement of the spatial resolution by more than a factor of 20 should be possible with a single measurement and a single detector.
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• Abstract: We investigate theoretically the ultimate resolution that can be achieved with passive remote sensing in the microwave regime used e.g.~on board of satellites observing Earth, such as the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission. We give a fully quantum mechanical analysis of the problem, starting from thermal distributions of microscopic currents on the surface to be imaged that lead to a mixture of coherent states of the electromagnetic field which are then measured with an array of receivers. We derive the optimal detection modes and measurement schemes that allow one to saturate the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound for the chosen parameters that determine the distribution of the microscopic currents. For parameters comparable to those of SMOS, a quantum enhancement of the spatial resolution by more than a factor of 20 should be possible with a single measurement and a single detector, and a resolution down to the order of 1 meter and less than a 1/10 Kelvin for the theoretically possible maximum number of measurements.

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