Progress in quantum telescopes

@misc{gozzard2026progress,
  title = {{Progress in quantum telescopes}},
  author = {David R. Gozzard and Fiona H. Panther and Andrew G. White},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.18079},
  eprint = {2609.18079},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.18079},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}

TY  - UNPB
TI  - Progress in quantum telescopes
AU  - David R. Gozzard
AU  - Fiona H. Panther
AU  - Andrew G. White
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/16
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.18079
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.18079
AB  - Classically, the angular resolution of a telescope is limited by its diffraction limit: the ratio of its observing wavelength to its diameter. Developments in quantum information theory over the past decade have uncovered quantum-optimal measurement methods that enable super-resolution imaging beyond the diffraction limit, and many laboratory-scale demonstrations of these methods have been performed over the past decade, culminating in the recent first on-sky demonstration of quantum-enhanced astronomical imaging. In this Review, we detail the current progress and achievements of these theoretical and experimental results, discuss the astronomical science cases motivating the development of higher resolution telescopes, summarise the technological challenges facing the practical application of quantum imaging technologies to astronomy, and present a vision for the realization of \emph{quantum telescopes} with imaging resolutions orders of magnitude better than current observatories.
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