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We introduce a general model for a network of quantum sensors, and we use this model to consider the question: When can entanglement between the sensors, and/or global measurements, enhance the precision with which the network can measure a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Timothy J. Proctor , Paul A. Knott , Jacob A. Dunningham

The action of a channel on a quantum system, when non trivial, always causes deterioration of initial quantum resources, understood as the entanglement initially shared by the input system with some reference purifying it. One effective way…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-06 Francesco Buscemi

We have experimentally evaluated the non-classical relation between measurement errors in a joint measurement of two non-commuting polarizations by using entangled photon pairs as a probe. The joint measurement was realized by filtering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Masataka Iinuma , Yutaro Suzuki , Masayuki Nakano , Holger F. Hofmann

Simulating quantum systems is one of the most promising avenues to harness the computational power of quantum computers. However, hardware errors in noisy near-term devices remain a major obstacle for applications. Ideas based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 W. Gong , Yaroslav Kharkov , Minh C. Tran , Przemyslaw Bienias , Alexey V. Gorshkov

Channel simulation is an alternative to quantization and entropy coding for performing lossy source coding. Recently, channel simulation has gained significant traction in both the machine learning and information theory communities, as it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Gergely Flamich , Sharang M. Sriramu , Aaron B. Wagner

Entanglement is known to significantly improve the performance (separately) of communication and detection schemes that utilize quantum resources. This work explores the simultaneous utility of quantum entanglement for (joint) communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Yuhang Yao , Syed A. Jafar

We analyze optical binary communication assisted by entanglement and show that: i) ideal entangled channels have smaller error probability than ideal single-mode coherent channels if the photon number of the channel is larger than one; ii)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matteo G A Paris

We present the generalized state-dependent entropic uncertainty relations in multiple measurements setting, and the optimal lower bound is obtained by considering different measurement sequences. We then apply this uncertainty relation to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-05 Li-Hang Ren , Yun-Hao Shi , Jin-Jun Chen , Heng Fan

This paper addresses the problem of distributed state estimation via multiple access channels (MACs). We consider a scenario where two encoders are simultaneously communicating their measurements through a noisy channel. Firstly, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-23 Ghassen Zafzouf , Girish N. Nair , Farhad Farokhi

We introduce detector-level entanglement, a unified entanglement concept for identical particles that takes into account the possible deletion of many-particle which-way information through the detection process. The concept implies a…

The efficiency of parameter estimation of quantum channels is studied in this paper. We introduce the concept of programmable parameters to the theory of estimation. It is found that programmable parameters obey the standard quantum limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-17 Zhengfeng Ji , Guoming Wang , Runyao Duan , Yuan Feng , Mingsheng Ying

We study the effect of shared non-signaling correlations for the problem of simulating a channel using noiseless communication in the one-shot setting. For classical channels, we show how to round any non-signaling-assisted simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Aadil Oufkir , Omar Fawzi , Mario Berta

We prove that every entangled state is useful as a resource for the problem of minimum-error channel discrimination. More specifically, given a single copy of an arbitrary bipartite entangled state, it holds that there is an instance of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-17 M. Piani , J. Watrous

Random (mixed) unitary channels describe an important subset of quantum channels, which are commonly used in quantum information, noise modeling, and quantum error mitigation. Despite their usefulness, there is substantial complexity in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Scott E. Smart , Alexander Jürgens , Joseph Peetz , Prineha Narang

Multipartite entanglement is an essential resource for quantum communication, quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum networks. The utility of a quantum state, $|\psi\rangle$, for these applications is often directly related to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Jacob L. Beckey , N. Gigena , Patrick J. Coles , M. Cerezo

A random unitary channel is one that is given by a convex combination of unitary channels. It is shown that the conjectures on the additivity of the minimum output entropy and the multiplicativity of the maximum output $p$-norm can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-15 Bill Rosgen

Entanglement subject to noise can not be shielded against decaying. But, in case of many noisy channels, the degradation can be partially prevented by using local unitary operations. We consider the effect of local noise on shared quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Priya Ghosh , Kornikar Sen , Ujjwal Sen

Entanglement assistance can improve communication rates significantly. Yet, its generation is susceptible to failure. The unreliable assistance model accounts for those challenges. Previous work provided an asymptotic formula that outlines…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 Uzi Pereg

We study the effects of quantum entanglement on the performance of two classical zero-error communication tasks among multiple parties. Both tasks are generalizations of the two-party zero-error channel-coding problem, where a sender and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-21 Teresa Piovesan , Giannicola Scarpa , Christian Schaffner

We solve the problem of discriminating with minimum error probability two given Pauli channels. We show that, differently from the case of discrimination between unitary transformations, the use of entanglement with an ancillary system can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Massimiliano F. Sacchi