Ultimate limits of exoplanet spectroscopy: a quantum approach

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06050v1
• Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 08:04:26 GMT
• Title: Ultimate limits of exoplanet spectroscopy: a quantum approach
• Authors: Zixin Huang, Christian Schwab, Cosmo Lupo
• Abstract summary: Gases in the exoplanet atmosphere like oxygen or methane have deep absorption features in the visible and near-infrared spectrum. Here we establish the ultimate quantum limit for determining the presence or absence of a spectral absorption line. We found that a structured measurement based on spatial demultiplexing allows us to decouple the light coming from the planet and achieve the ultimate quantum limits.
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• Abstract: One of the big challenges in exoplanet science is to determine the atmospheric makeup of extrasolar planets, and to find biosignatures that hint at the existence of biochemical processes on another world. The biomarkers we are trying to detect are gases in the exoplanet atmosphere like oxygen or methane, which have deep absorption features in the visible and near-infrared spectrum. Here we establish the ultimate quantum limit for determining the presence or absence of a spectral absorption line, for a dim source in the presence of a much brighter stellar source. We characterise the associated error exponent in both the frameworks of symmetric and asymmetric hypothesis testing. We found that a structured measurement based on spatial demultiplexing allows us to decouple the light coming from the planet and achieve the ultimate quantum limits. If the planet has intensity $\epsilon \ll 1$ relative to the star, we show that this approach significantly outperforms direct spectroscopy yielding an improvement of the error exponent by a factor $1/\epsilon$. We find the optimal measurement, which is a combination of interferometric techniques and spectrum analysis.

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