{"id":168015,"date":"2023-07-21T16:29:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T21:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-quantum-radar-that-outperforms-classical-radar-by-20"},"modified":"2023-07-21T16:29:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T21:29:55","slug":"a-quantum-radar-that-outperforms-classical-radar-by-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-quantum-radar-that-outperforms-classical-radar-by-20","title":{"rendered":"A quantum radar that outperforms classical radar by 20%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-quantum-radar-that-outperforms-classical-radar-by-202.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum technologies, a wide range of devices that operate by leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics, could significantly outperform classical devices on some tasks. Physicists and engineers worldwide have thus been working hard to achieve this long-sought \u201cquantum advantage\u201d over classical computing approaches.<\/p>\n<p>A research team at Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure de Lyon, CNRS recently developed a quantum <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/radar\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">radar<\/a> that could significantly outperform all existing radars based on classical approaches. This new radar, introduced in a paper published in <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, concurrently measures an entangled probe and the idler <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/microwave\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microwave<\/a> photon states occurring once this probe reflects from target objects, merging with thermal noise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe invented a superconducting circuit in 2020 that was able, among other things, to generate entanglement, store and manipulate microwave quantum states and count the number of photons in a microwave field,\u201d Benjamin Huard, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told Phys.org. \u201cWe then realized that it had all the features we needed to tackle one of the biggest challenges in microwave quantum metrology: demonstrating a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+advantage\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum advantage<\/a> in radar sensing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum technologies, a wide range of devices that operate by leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics, could significantly outperform classical devices on some tasks. Physicists and engineers worldwide have thus been working hard to achieve this long-sought \u201cquantum advantage\u201d over classical computing approaches. A research team at Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure de Lyon, CNRS recently developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}