Searching for Interstellar Quantum Communications

Michael Hippke

doi:10.3847/1538-3881/abf7b7

2021-06-02

Michael Hippke *

DOI：10.3847/1538-3881/abf7b7

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The modern search for extraterrestrial intelligence began with the seminal publications of Cocconi & Morrison and Schwartz & Townes, who proposed searching for narrowband signals in the radio spectrum and optical laser pulses. Over the last six decades, more than 100 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 regard 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.

Keyword:

BREAKTHROUGH LISTEN SEARCH

ORBITAL ANGULAR-MOMENTUM

CLASSICAL INFORMATION

INTELLIGENT LIFE

SQUEEZED STATES

LASER-EMISSION

OPTICAL-SEARCH

ENTANGLEMENT

CAPACITY

INTERFEROMETER

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Astronomical Journal

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5.1

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