Quantum-Computer-Enhanced Electron Microscopy

Novel imaging and microscopy techniques have repeatedly revolutionized science, medicine, and industry. Traditional microscopes, while operating with quantum probe particles (photons, electrons), rely on intensity-based measurements that collapse the wavefunction of the probe particle, effectively disregarding information about the sample. We aim to replace classical state preparation and detection technology with a quantum computer inside a transmission electron microscope to enable quantum-computer-enhanced electron microscopy (QCEM). This will enable measurements at higher sensitivity beyond the standard quantum limit and the imaging of novel quantities of interest.