Chernoff Information Bottleneck for Covert Quantum Target Sensing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06217v1
• Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:05:41 GMT
• Title: Chernoff Information Bottleneck for Covert Quantum Target Sensing
• Authors: Giuseppe Ortolano, Ivano Ruo-Berchera, Leonardo Banchi,
• Abstract summary: We show how entangled photonic probes paired with photon counting greatly outperform classical coherent transmitters in target detection and ranging.<n>Our work highlights the great potential of integrating quantum sensing in LiDAR systems to enhance the covert performance.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Target sensing is a fundamental task with many practical applications, e.g.~in LiDaR and radar systems. Quantum strategies with entangled states can achieve better sensing accuracies with the same probe energy, yet it is often simpler to use classical probes with higher energy than to take advantage of the quantum regime. Recently, it has been shown that useful quantum advantage can be achieved in covert situations, where sensing has to be performed while also avoiding detection by an adversary: here increasing energy is not a viable stratagem, as it facilitates the adversary. In this paper we introduce a general framework to assess and quantify quantum advantage in covert situations. This is based on extending the information bottleneck principle, originally developed for communication and machine learning applications, to decision problems via the Chernoff information, with the ultimate goal of quantitatively optimizing the trade-off between covertness and sensing ability. In this context we show how quantum resources, namely entangled photonic probes paired with photon counting, greatly outperform classical coherent transmitters in target detection and ranging, while also maintaining a chosen level of covertness. Our work highlights the great potential of integrating quantum sensing in LiDAR systems to enhance the covert performance.

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