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The set of doubly-stochastic quantum channels and its subset of mixtures of unitaries are investigated. We provide a detailed analysis of their structure together with computable criteria for the separation of the two sets. When applied to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Christian B. Mendl , Michael M. Wolf

A quantum channel is a mapping which sends density matrices to density matrices. The estimation of quantum channels is of great importance to the field of quantum information. In this thesis two topics related to estimation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-25 Caleb J. O'Loan

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

The recently introduced random purification channel, which converts $n$ i.i.d. copies of any mixed quantum state into a uniform convex combination of $n$ i.i.d. copies of its purifications, has proved to be an extremely useful tool in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Filippo Girardi , Francesco Anna Mele , Ludovico Lami

We give a short proof that the coherent information is an achievable rate for the transmission of quantum information through a noisy quantum channel. Our method is to produce random codes by performing a unitarily covariant projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Patrick Hayden , Michal Horodecki , Andreas Winter , Jon Yard

In this work we design a specific simulation tool for quantum channels which is based on the use of a control system. This allows us to simulate an average quantum channel which is expressed in terms of an ensemble of channels, even when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Stefano Pirandola , Riccardo Laurenza , Leonardo Banchi

We consider the sequential quantum channel discrimination problem using adaptive and non-adaptive strategies. In this setting the number of uses of the underlying quantum channel is not fixed but a random variable that is either bounded in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yonglong Li , Christoph Hirche , Marco Tomamichel

Entropic quantifiers of states lie at the cornerstone of the quantum information theory. While a quantum state can be abstracted as a device that only has outputs, the most general quantum device is a quantum channel that also has inputs.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Xiao Yuan

Originated from the superposition principle in quantum mechanics, coherence has been extensively studied as a kind important resource in quantum information processing. We investigate the distinguishability of coherence-breaking channels…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Long-Mei Yang , Tao Li , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhi-Xi Wang

One of the fundamental tasks in quantum information processing is to measure the quantum channels. Similar to measurements of quantum states, measurements of quantum channels are inherently stochastic, that is, quantum theory provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Taihei Kimoto , Takayuki Miyadera

We determine the minimal experimental resources that ensure a unique solution in the estimation of trace-preserving quantum channels with both direct and convex optimization methods. A convenient parametrization of the constrained set is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-13 M. Zorzi , F. Ticozzi , A. Ferrante

Dynamics of many-qubit systems, that may correspond to computational processing with quantum systems, can be efficiently and generally approximated by a sequence of two- and single-qubit gates. In practical applications, however, a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Joonwoo Bae , Tanmay Singal

We address the problem of optimally approximating the action of a desired and unavailable quantum channel $\Phi $ having at our disposal a single use of a given set of other channels $\{\Psi_i \}$. The problem is recast to look for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Massimiliano F. Sacchi , Tito Sacchi

We present a method to detect properties of quantum channels, assuming that some a priori information about the form of the channel is available. The method is based on a correspondence with entanglement detection methods for multipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 C. Macchiavello , M. Rossi

The primary entropic measures for quantum states are additive under the tensor product. In the analysis of quantum information processing tasks, the minimum entropy of a set of states, e.g., the minimum output entropy of a channel, often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Omar Fawzi , Jan Kochanowski , Cambyse Rouzé , Thomas Van Himbeeck

We argue that a fundamental (conjectured) property of memoryless quantum channels, namely the strong superadditivity, is intimately related to the decreasing property of the quantum relative entropy. Using the latter we first give, for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-09 Grigori G. Amosov , Stefano Mancini

This article provides an elementary introduction to Gaussian channels and their capacities. We review results on the classical, quantum, and entanglement assisted capacities and discuss related entropic quantities as well as additivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-15 J. Eisert , M. M. Wolf

The quantum channel decomposition techniques, which contain the so-called probabilistic error cancellation and gate/wire cutting, are powerful approach for simulating a hard-to-implement (or an ideal) unitary operation by concurrently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-30 Ryo Nagai , Shu Kanno , Yuki Sato , Naoki Yamamoto

This paper introduces a method for calculating the quantum relative entropy of channels, an essential quantity in quantum channel discrimination and resource theories of quantum channels. By building on recent developments in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Gereon Koßmann , Mark M. Wilde

In this work we analyze properties of generic quantum channels in the case of large system size. We use random matrix theory and free probability to show that the distance between two independent random channels converges to a constant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-09 Ion Nechita , Zbigniew Puchała , Łukasz Pawela , Karol Życzkowski