Twin-beam advantage in quantum LiDAR under correlated noise

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17908v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:32:18 GMT
• Title: Twin-beam advantage in quantum LiDAR under correlated noise
• Abstract summary: We show that separable squeezing provides a robust advantage over coherent illumination under loss and thermal background.<n>These results establish correlated noise as the operational regime in which entanglement provides a robustness advantage beyond local squeezing.
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• Abstract: Quantum light promises improved precision in optical remote sensing, but its practical advantage depends critically on whether nonclassical resources remain useful under realistic noise and experimentally accessible detection. This question becomes especially relevant for LiDAR systems, where a quantum advantage has been demonstrated for target detection and joint range-velocity estimation, but mostly under idealized conditions or simple noise models, such as optical loss and thermal background. A key open point is whether entanglement provides an operational advantage when the dominant disturbance is not independent noise, but structured interference across sensing modes. Here, we address this question by studying the joint estimation of target range and velocity with bright two-mode Gaussian probes and homodyne detection, comparing coherent, separable squeezed, and twin-beam states at a fixed resource budget. Our results reveal a hierarchy of quantum resources set by the noise structure: separable squeezing provides a robust advantage over coherent illumination under loss and thermal background, whereas twin-beam probes become superior under correlated jamming when the receiver is adaptively optimized. These results establish correlated noise as the operational regime in which entanglement provides a robustness advantage beyond local squeezing, opening a receiver-aware route to quantum-enhanced LiDAR in realistic and potentially adversarial environments.

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