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Quantum information processing, sensing and communications: their myths, realities and futures

Quantum information processing, sensing and communications: their myths, realities and futures
Quantum information processing, sensing and communications: their myths, realities and futures
The recent advances in quantum information processing, sensing and communications are surveyed with the objective of identifying the associated knowledge gaps and formulating a roadmap for their future evolution. Since the operation of quantum systems is prone to the deleterious effects of decoherence, which manifests itself in terms of bit-flips, phaseflips or both, the pivotal subject of quantum error mitigation is reviewed both in the presence and absence of quantum coding. The state-of-the-art, knowledge gaps and future evolution of quantum machine learning are also discussed, followed by a discourse on quantum radar systems and briefly hypothesizing about the feasibility of integrated sensing and communications in the quantum domain. Finally, we conclude with a set of promising future research ideas in the field of ultimately secure quantum communications with the objective of harnessing ideas from the classical communications field.
Quantum communications, quantum computing, quantum error correction coding, quantum error mitigation, quantum key distribution (QKD), quantum machine learning, quantum sensing, quantum-secured direct communications (QSDC)
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Hanzo, Lajos, Babar, Zunaira, Cai, Zhenyu, Chandra, Daryus, B. Djordjevic, Ivan, Koczor, Balint, Ng, Soon Xin, Razavi, Mohsen and Simeone, Osvaldo (2025) Quantum information processing, sensing and communications: their myths, realities and futures. Proceedings of the IEEE. (doi:10.1109/JPROC.2024.3510394).

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The recent advances in quantum information processing, sensing and communications are surveyed with the objective of identifying the associated knowledge gaps and formulating a roadmap for their future evolution. Since the operation of quantum systems is prone to the deleterious effects of decoherence, which manifests itself in terms of bit-flips, phaseflips or both, the pivotal subject of quantum error mitigation is reviewed both in the presence and absence of quantum coding. The state-of-the-art, knowledge gaps and future evolution of quantum machine learning are also discussed, followed by a discourse on quantum radar systems and briefly hypothesizing about the feasibility of integrated sensing and communications in the quantum domain. Finally, we conclude with a set of promising future research ideas in the field of ultimately secure quantum communications with the objective of harnessing ideas from the classical communications field.

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Accepted/In Press date: 25 November 2024
Published date: 6 January 2025
Keywords: Quantum communications, quantum computing, quantum error correction coding, quantum error mitigation, quantum key distribution (QKD), quantum machine learning, quantum sensing, quantum-secured direct communications (QSDC)

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Local EPrints ID: 496904
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/496904
ISSN: 0018-9219
PURE UUID: 81ce68bb-aee2-4bab-bc10-d7dcbf863e28
ORCID for Lajos Hanzo: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2636-5214
ORCID for Daryus Chandra: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2406-7229
ORCID for Soon Xin Ng: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0930-7194

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Date deposited: 08 Jan 2025 12:40
Last modified: 25 Feb 2025 03:03

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Author: Lajos Hanzo ORCID iD
Author: Zunaira Babar
Author: Zhenyu Cai
Author: Daryus Chandra ORCID iD
Author: Ivan B. Djordjevic
Author: Balint Koczor
Author: Soon Xin Ng ORCID iD
Author: Mohsen Razavi
Author: Osvaldo Simeone

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