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Quantum key distribution (QKD) systems require optimal performance of both quantum and classical channels - utilizing as few as possible qubits and bits for establishing as many as possible key bits. Here we report a way to determine if a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Georgi Bebrov

A formula for the capacity of a quantum channel for transmitting private classical information is derived. This is shown to be equal to the capacity of the channel for generating a secret key, and neither capacity is enhanced by forward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Devetak

The maximum entropy principle, as applied to quantum systems, is a fundamental prescript positing that for a quantum system for which we only have partial knowledge, the maximum entropy state consistent with the partial knowledge is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Siddhartha Das , Ujjwal Sen

This paper introduces a novel lower bound on communication complexity using quantum relative entropy and mutual information, refining previous classical entropy-based results. By leveraging Uhlmann's lemma and quantum Pinsker inequalities,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Fengxia Liu , Zhiyong Zheng , Kun Tian , Yi Zhang , Heng Guo , Zhe Hu , Oleksiy Zhedanov , Zixian Gong

We give a security proof of quantum cryptography based entirely on entanglement purification. Our proof applies to all possible attacks (individual and coherent). It implies the security of cryptographic keys distributed with the help of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Hans Aschauer , Hans J. Briegel

Near-term quantum devices with limited qubits motivate the study of space-bounded quantum computation in the data stream model. We show that Shannon entropy estimation exhibits an exponential separation between quantum and classical space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Weijun Feng , Yongzhen Xu , Lvzhou Li , Gongde Guo , Song Lin

We consider quantum and private communications assisted by repeaters, from the basic scenario of a single repeater chain to the general case of an arbitrarily-complex quantum network, where systems may be routed through single or multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-17 Stefano Pirandola

A quantum channel is sufficient with respect to a set of input states if it can be reversed on this set. In the approximate version, the input states can be recovered within an error bounded by the decrease of the relative entropy under the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Anna Jenčová

We consider the transmission of classical information over a quantum channel by two senders. The channel capacity region is shown to be a convex hull bound by the Von Neumann entropy and the conditional Von Neumann entropy. We discuss some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Minxin Huang , Yongde Zhang , Guang Hou

A method of representing probabilistic aspects of quantum systems is introduced by means of a density function on the space of pure quantum states. In particular, a maximum entropy argument allows us to obtain a natural density function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 D. C. Brody , L. P. Hughston

We introduce a class of quantum channels with correlations acting on pairs of qubits, where the correlation takes the form of a shift operator onto a maximally entangled state. We optimise the output purity and show that below a certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-19 Filippo Caruso , Vittorio Giovannetti , Chiara Macchiavello , Mary Beth Ruskai

We prove that for any infinite-dimensional quantum channel the entropic disturbance (defined as difference between the $\chi$-quantity of a generalized ensemble and that of the image of the ensemble under the channel) is lower…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 M. E. Shirokov , A. S. Holevo

The classical-input quantum-output (cq) wiretap channel is a communication model involving a classical sender $X$, a legitimate quantum receiver $B$, and a quantum eavesdropper $E$. The goal of a private communication protocol that uses…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Mark M. Wilde

Uncertainty relations lie at the very core of quantum mechanics, and form the cornerstone of essentially all quantum cryptographic applications. In particular, they play an important role in cryptographic protocols in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-27 Stephanie Wehner , Andreas Winter

We show that private shared reference frames can be used to perform private quantum and private classical communication over a public quantum channel. Such frames constitute a novel type of private shared correlation (distinct from private…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. Bartlett , Terry Rudolph , Robert W. Spekkens

We study the symmetric-side-channel-assisted private capacity of a quantum channel, for which we provide a single-letter formula. This capacity is additive, convex, and, for degradable channels, equal to the unassisted private capacity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-07 Graeme Smith

We investigate optimal encoding and retrieval of digital data, when the storage/communication medium is described by quantum mechanics. We assume an m-ary alphabet with arbitrary prior distribution, and an n-dimensional quantum system.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Noam Elron , Yonina C. Eldar

The locking effect is a phenomenon which is unique to quantum information theory and represents one of the strongest separations between the classical and quantum theories of information. The Fawzi-Hayden-Sen (FHS) locking protocol…

The nonadditivity of channel capacity is a defining feature that distinguishes quantum communication from classical communication. In the quantum realm, the channel capacity is determined by coherent information, which is defined through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yu Guo , Bo-Xuan Wang , Xiao-Min Hu , Yun-Feng Huang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo , Bi-Heng Liu

The one-shot success probability of a noisy classical channel for transmitting one classical bit is the optimal probability with which the bit can be sent via a single use of the channel. Prevedel et al. (PRL 106, 110505 (2011)) recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 Brett Hemenway , Carl A. Miller , Yaoyun Shi , Mary Wootters