Quantum Wireless Sensing

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Dear Colleagues,

Quantum wireless sensing is emerging as a new sensing paradigm that leverages the energy level of atoms for sensing. The underlying insight of this next-generation sensing frontier is that the perturbations of various wireless signals, including WiFi, RFID, LoRa or even acoustics, can deterministically affect the atom state. The sensing granularity and accuracy can be significantly improved in quantum wireless sensing beyond what classical sensors can achieve by exploiting quantum superposition and entanglement. Also, using superconducting quantum technologies, quantum-enhanced wireless sensing could substantially improve readout performance for precision sensing and detection to have a wide range of applications ranging from radar, navigation and medical imaging to environmental monitoring and defence and security.

As quantum wireless sensing research is still in its infancy, we invite researchers from a wide range of fields to submit their latest or original research on quantum wireless sensing that proposes new ideas and algorithms, presents innovative solutions to the current challenges, or discusses real-world implementations. We also welcome detailed review papers summarising the current state of the art and discussing new directions, raising open questions, or provoking challenging discussions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Quantum physics for wireless sensing, detection and estimation;
• Quantum optical states and quantum optomechanical systems;
• High-precision sensing using quantum mechanics;
• Quantum sensor technologies;
• Quantum photonic sensing and measurements;
• Quantum backscatter communication;
• Microwave or millimetre-wave quantum sensing;
• Quantum photodetectors, bio- and chemical sensors;
• Superconducting, electromechanical, and hybrid super/semi-conductor devices;
• Hardware and algorithm designs for quantum wireless sensing;
• Security, covertness and privacy issues in quantum wireless sensing;
• Coexistence of quantum sensing and communication;
• Navigation, positioning, and human activity recognition;
• Interactive sensing and vital sign monitoring using quantum technologies;
• Material identification, environmental sensing and monitoring;
• Through-wall imaging, localisation and tracking;
• Novel sensing approaches and techniques using 2D materials-based quantum sensor;
• AI-enabled quantum sensing for defence and security;
• Experimental demonstrations, prototypes and testbeds for quantum wireless sensing.

Dr. Deepak Mishra
Dr. Chao Cai
Dr. Jie Zhang
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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Electronics electronics	2.6	5.3	2012	16.4 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
IoT IoT	-	8.5	2020	27.8 Days	CHF 1200	Submit
Photonics photonics	2.1	2.6	2014	14.9 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
Sensors sensors	3.4	7.3	2001	18.6 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Energies energies	3.0	6.2	2008	16.8 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Optics optics	1.1	2.2	2020	18.4 Days	CHF 1200	Submit

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Low-Frequency Communication Based on Rydberg-Atom Receiver

by Yipeng Xie, Mingwei Lei, Jianquan Zhang, Wenbo Dong and Meng Shi

Electronics 2025, 14(5), 1041; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14051041 - 6 Mar 2025

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Rydberg-atom receivers have developed rapidly with increasing sensitivity. However, studies on their application in low-frequency electric fields remain limited. In this work, we demonstrate low-frequency communication using an electrode-embedded atom cell and a whip antenna without the need for a low-noise amplifier (LNA). [...] Read more.

Rydberg-atom receivers have developed rapidly with increasing sensitivity. However, studies on their application in low-frequency electric fields remain limited. In this work, we demonstrate low-frequency communication using an electrode-embedded atom cell and a whip antenna without the need for a low-noise amplifier (LNA). Three modulations—binary phase-shift keying (BPSK), on–off keying (OOK), and two-frequency shift keying (2FSK)—were employed for communication using a Rydberg-atom receiver operating near 100 kHz. The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the modulated low-frequency signal received by Rydberg atoms was measured at various emission voltages. Additionally, we demonstrated the in-phase and quadrature (IQ) constellation diagram, error vector magnitude (EVM), and eye diagram of the demodulated signal at different symbol rates. The EVM values were measured to be 8.8% at a symbol rate of 2 kbps, 9.4% at 4 kbps, and 13.7% at 8 kbps. The high-fidelity digital color image transmission achieved a peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of 70 dB. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of a Rydberg-atom receiver for low-frequency communication applications. Full article

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