Quantum Limits to Classically Spoofing an Electromagnetic Signal

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.09999v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 23:11:33 GMT
• Title: Quantum Limits to Classically Spoofing an Electromagnetic Signal
• Authors: Jonathan N. Blakely and Shawn D. Pethel
• Abstract summary: Spoofing an electromagnetic signal involves measuring its properties and preparing a spoof signal that is a close enough copy to fool a receiver. We show that a spoofer optimally employs classical information on the state of the transmitted signal. We show that the quantum limitations on classical spoofing remain significant even in the large mean-photon-number regime.
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• Abstract: Spoofing an electromagnetic signal involves measuring its properties and preparing a spoof signal that is a close enough copy to fool a receiver. A classic application of spoofing is in radar where an airborne target attempts to avoid being tracked by a ground-based radar by emitting pulses indicating a false range or velocity. In certain scenarios it has been shown that a sensor can exploit quantum mechanics to detect spoofing at the single-photon level. Here we analyze an idealized spoofing scenario where a transmitter-receiver pair, seeking to detect spoofing, utilizes a signal chosen randomly from a set of non-orthogonal, coherent states. We show that a spoofer optimally employing classical information on the state of the transmitted signal (i.e. the best measure-and-prepare strategy allowed by quantum mechanics) inevitably emits imperfect spoofs that can be exploited by the receiver to reveal the presence of the spoofer, or to discriminate between true reflections and spoofs. Importantly, we show that the quantum limitations on classical spoofing remain significant even in the large mean-photon-number regime.

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