Counterfactual Ghost Imaging

Jonte Hance; John Rarity

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Counterfactual Ghost Imaging

Jonte Hance^*, John Rarity

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We give a protocol for ghost imaging in a way that is always counterfactual—while imaging an object, no light interacts with that object. This extends the idea of counterfactuality beyond communication, showing how this interesting phenomenon can be leveraged for metrology. Given, in the infinite limit, no photons ever go to the imaged object, it presents a method of imaging even the most light-sensitive of objects without damaging them. Even when not in the infinite limit, it still provides a many-fold improvement in visibility and signal-to-noise ratio over previous protocols, with over an order of magnitude reduction in absorbed intensity.

Original language	English
Article number	88
Number of pages	7
Journal	npj Quantum Information
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-021-00411-4
Publication status	Published - 2 Jun 2021

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Funding Information:
We thank Hatim Salih, Alex McMillan and Will McCutcheon for useful discussions. This work was supported by the University of York’s EPSRC DTP grant EP/R513386/1, and the Quantum Communications Hub funded by the EPSRC grant EP/M013472/1.

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Hance, J. R. & Rarity, J. G., 23 Jul 2021, OSA Optical Sensors and Sensing Congress 2021 (AIS, FTS, HISE, SENSORS, ES). Optical Society of America (OSA), 2 p. (OSA Technical Digest; vol. 2021, no. SW5F.5).
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Hance, J. R. & Rarity, J. G., 4 Nov 2021, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2021). Mazzali, C., Poon, T., Averitt, R. & Kaindl, R. (eds.). Optical Society of America (OSA), 2 p. FM5C.2
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Hance, J. R. & Rarity, J. G., 14 May 2021, CLEO: Science and Innovations 2021: Joint Poster Session I (JTu3A). San Jose, California, United States: Optical Society of America (OSA), 2 p.
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Rarity, J. G., Nejabati, R., Simeonidou, D., Sahin, D., Kanellos, G., Aktas, D. V. C., Joshi, S. K., Lowndes, D. L. D., Venkatachalam, N., Hugues Salas, E., Woodland, E. M., Erven, C., Zhang, P., Hance, J. R., Clark, M., Rosenfeld, L. M., Hastings, E. M. J., Johlinger, F. B., Wang, R., Stange Tessinari, R., Solomons, N. R., Fasoulakis, T. & Alia, O.
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The interplay between quantum foundations and quantum technologies: Counterfactual communication, and extensions of quantum mechanics
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Supervisor: Ladyman, J. (Supervisor) & Rarity, J. (Supervisor)
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The interplay between quantum foundations and quantum technologies: Counterfactual communication, and extensions of quantum mechanics

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