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寻找星际量子通讯

Searching for interstellar quantum communications

Michael Hippke

摘要:

现代对地外文明的搜寻(SETI)始于Cocconi & Morrison(1959)和Schwartz & Townes(1961)的开创性出版物,他们提出在无线电频谱中寻找窄带信号,以及光学激光脉冲。在过去的60年里,超过100个专门的搜索程序已经瞄准了这些波长;所有的结果都是空的。所有这些活动都在寻找经典通信,也就是说,在噪声阈值以上的大量光子;假设在时间和/或频率空间中编码的模式。我认为,未来的研究也应该针对量子通信。在安全性和信息效率方面,它们比传统通信更受欢迎,并且在以前的所有搜索中都不会被发现。对福克态光子或压缩光的测量将表明信号的人为性。我证明了量子相干性在星际距离上是可行的,并首次解释了天文学家如何使用商用望远镜和接收器设备搜索ETI发送到地球的量子传输。

英文摘要:

The modern search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) began with the seminal publications of Cocconi & Morrison (1959) and Schwartz & Townes (1961), who proposed to search for narrow-band signals in the radio spectrum, and for optical laser pulses. Over the last six decades, more than one hundred dedicated search programs have targeted these wavelengths; all with null results. All of these campaigns searched for classical communications, that is, for a significant number of photons above a noise threshold; with the assumption of a pattern encoded in time and/or frequency space. I argue that future searches should also target quantum communications. They are preferred over classical communications with regards to security and information efficiency, and they would have escaped detection in all previous searches. The measurement of Fock state photons or squeezed light would indicate the artificiality of a signal. I show that quantum coherence is feasible over interstellar distances, and explain for the first time how astronomers can search for quantum transmissions sent by ETI to Earth, using commercially available telescopes and receiver equipment.

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