Quantum phase-sensitive diffraction and imaging using entangled photons
Abstract
We propose a quantum diffraction imaging technique whereby one photon of an entangled pair is diffracted off a sample and detected in coincidence with its twin. The image is obtained by scanning the photon that did not interact with matter. We show that when a dynamical quantum system interacts with an external field, the phase information is imprinted in the state of the field in a detectable way. The contribution to the signal from photons that interact with the sample scales as , where is the source intensity, compared with of classical diffraction. This makes imaging with weak fields possible, providing high signal-to-noise ratio, avoiding damage to delicate samples. A Schmidt decomposition of the state of the field can be used for image enhancement by reweighting the Schmidt modes contributions.
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- Research Org.:
- Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1515584
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1609516
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-04ER15571; SC0019484; CHE-1663822
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
- Publisher:
- National Academy of Sciences
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; quantum imaging; entangled protons; quantum diffraction; phase-sensitive imaging
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Asban, Shahaf, Dorfman, Konstantin E., and Mukamel, Shaul. Quantum phase-sensitive diffraction and imaging using entangled photons. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.1904839116.
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title = {Quantum phase-sensitive diffraction and imaging using entangled photons},
author = {Asban, Shahaf and Dorfman, Konstantin E. and Mukamel, Shaul},
abstractNote = {We propose a quantum diffraction imaging technique whereby one photon of an entangled pair is diffracted off a sample and detected in coincidence with its twin. The image is obtained by scanning the photon that did not interact with matter. We show that when a dynamical quantum system interacts with an external field, the phase information is imprinted in the state of the field in a detectable way. The contribution to the signal from photons that interact with the sample scales as ∝ I p 1 / 2 , where I p is the source intensity, compared with ∝ I p of classical diffraction. This makes imaging with weak fields possible, providing high signal-to-noise ratio, avoiding damage to delicate samples. A Schmidt decomposition of the state of the field can be used for image enhancement by reweighting the Schmidt modes contributions.},
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journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
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place = {United States},
year = {2019},
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