Entangled states like two-mode squeezed vacuum states are known to give quantum advantage in the illumination protocol, a method to detect a weakly reflecting target submerged in a thermal background. We use non-Gaussian photon-added and subtracted s
tates as probes for the single-shot quantum illumination both in the presence and absence of noise. Based on the difference between the Chernoff bounds obtained with the coherent state and the non-Gaussian state having equal signal strengths, whose positive values are referred to as a quantum advantage in illumination, we classify the performance of non-Gaussian states, when photons are added (subtracted) in (from) a single mode or in (from) both the modes. We highlight the hierarchy among Gaussian and non-Gaussian states obtained via this method, which is compatible with correlations per unit signal strength. Interestingly, such hierarchy is different when comparisons are made only using the Chernoff bounds. The entire analysis is performed in presence of different noisy apparatus like faulty twin-beam generator, imperfect photon addition or subtraction as well as with noisy non-Gaussian probe states.
Characterizing multipartite quantum correlations beyond two parties is of utmost importance for building cutting edge quantum technologies, although the comprehensive picture is still missing. Here we investigate quantum correlations (QCs) present in
a multipartite system by exploring connections between monogamy score (MS), localizable quantum correlations (LQC), and genuine multipartite entanglement (GME) content of the state. We find that the frequency distribution of GME for Dicke states with higher excitations resembles that of random states. We show that there is a critical value of GME beyond which all states become monogamous and it is investigated by considering different powers of MS which provide various layers of monogamy relations. Interestingly, such a relation between LQC and MS as well as GME does not hold. States having a very low GME (low monogamy score, both positive and negative) can localize a high amount of QCs in two parties. We also provide an upper bound to the sum of bipartite QC measures including LQC for random states and establish a gap between the actual upper bound and the algebraic maximum.
In order to understand the resourcefulness of a natural quantum system in quantum communication tasks, we study the dense coding capacity (DCC) and teleportation fidelity (TF) of Haar uniformly generated random multipartite states of various ranks. W
e prove that when a rank-2 two-qubit state, a Werner state, and a pure state possess the same amount of entanglement, the DCC of a rank-2 state belongs to the envelope made by pure and Werner states. In a similar way, we obtain an upper bound via the generalized Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state for rank-2 three-qubit states when the dense coding with two senders and a single receiver is performed and entanglement is measured in the senders:receiver bipartition. The normalized frequency distribution of DCC for randomly generated two-, three- and four-qubit density matrices with global as well as local decodings at the receivers end are reported. The estimation of mean DCC for two-qubit states is found to be in good agreement with the numerical simulations. Universally, we observe that the performance of random states for dense coding as well as teleportation decreases with the increase of the rank of states which we have shown to be surmounted by the local pre-processing operations performed on the shared states before starting the protocols, irrespective of the rank of the states. The local pre-processing employed here is based on positive operator valued measurements along with classical communication and we show that unlike dense coding with two-qubit random states, senders operations are always helpful to probabilistically enhance the capabilities of implementing dense coding as well as teleportation.
