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We consider a basic communication and sensing setup comprising a transmitter, a receiver and a sensor. The transmitter sends an encoded sequence to the receiver through a discrete memoryless channel, and the receiver is interested in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Han Wu , Hamdi Joudeh

The two-sender unicast index coding problem consists of finding optimal coded transmissions from the two senders which collectively know the messages demanded by all the receivers. Each receiver demands a unique message. One important class…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Chinmayananda Arunachala , Vaneet Aggarwal , B. Sundar Rajan

We propose a multiple pulses phase-matching quantum key distribution protocol (MPPM-QKD) to exceed the linear key rate bound and to achieve higher error tolerance. In our protocol, Alice and Bob generate at first their own train pulses…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-28 Gang Chen , Le Wang , Wei Li , Qianping Mao , Zhigang Shen , Shengmei Zhao , Jozef Gruska

Quantum and private communications are affected by a fundamental limitation which severely restricts the optimal rates that are achievable by two distant parties. To overcome this problem, one needs to introduce quantum repeaters and, more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-30 Stefano Pirandola

Non-orthogonal communication is a promising technique for future wireless networks (e.g., 6G and Wi-Fi 7). In the vector channel model, designing efficient non-orthogonal communication schemes amounts to the following extremum problem: \[…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Gergely Ambrus , Bo Bai , Jianfeng Hou

We study the scalability of consensus-based distributed optimization algorithms by considering two questions: How many processors should we use for a given problem, and how often should they communicate when communication is not free?…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Konstantinos I. Tsianos , Sean Lawlor , Michael G. Rabbat

We investigate the advantages of high-dimensional encoding for a quantum key distribution protocol. In particular, we address a BBM92-like protocol where the dimension of the systems can be larger than two and more than two mutually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Nikolai Wyderka , Giovanni Chesi , Hermann Kampermann , Chiara Macchiavello , Dagmar Bruß

For the four-state protocol of quantum key distribution, optimum sets of probe parameters are calculated for the most general unitary probe in which each individual transmitted photon is made to interact with the probe so that the signal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Howard E. Brandt

It is the first scheme which allows the detection apparatus to achieve both the photon number of arriving signals and quantum bit error rate of the multiphoton pulses precisely. We show that the upper bound of the fraction of the tagged…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Qing-yu Cai

An index coding scheme in which the source (transmitter) transmits binary symbols over a wireless fading channel is considered. Index codes with the transmitter using minimum number of transmissions are known as optimal index codes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Anoop Thomas , Kavitha R. , Chandramouli A. , B. Sundar Rajan

A quantum channel models the interaction between the system we are interested in and its environment. Such a model can capture the main features of the interaction but because of the complexity of the environment we can not assume that it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Gábor Balló , Péter Gurin

In this Letter we analyze the benefit of digital compensation of fiber nonlinearity, where the digital signal processing is divided between the transmitter and receiver. The application of the Gaussian noise model indicates that, where…

Quantum capacity gives the fundamental limit of information transmission through a channel. However, evaluating the quantum capacities of a continuous-variable bosonic quantum channel, as well as finding an optimal code to achieve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Adam Taylor , Michael Hanks , Hyukjoon Kwon , M. S. Kim

We develop an efficient algorithm for determining optimal adaptive quantum estimation protocols with arbitrary quantum control operations between subsequent uses of a probed channel. We introduce a tensor network representation of an…

Installation of capacitors in distribution networks is one of the most used procedure to compensate reactive power generated by loads and, consequently, to reduce technical losses. So, the problem consists in identifying the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-01 André R. Goncalves , Celso Cavelucci , Christiano Lyra Filho , Fernando J. Von Zuben

A method to optimize the cost of a quantum channel is developed. The goal is to determine the cheapest channel that produces prescribed output states for a given set of input states. This is essentially a quantum version of optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Rocco Duvenhage

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) using polarisation encoding can be hard to implement over deployed telecom fibres because the routing geometry and the birefringence of the fibre link can alter the polarisation states of the propagating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Yicheng Shi , Hou Shun Poh , Alexander Ling , Christian Kurtsiefer

Transmission losses through optical fibers are one of the main obstacles preventing both long-distance quantum communications and continuous-variable quantum key distribution. Optical amplification provides a tool to obtain, at least…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Michele N. Notarnicola , Filip Cieciuch , Marcin Jarzyna

Quantum Key Distribution is a practically implementable information-theoretic secure method for transmitting keys to remote partners performing quantum communication. After examining various protocols from the simplest such as QC and BB84…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 C. Tannous , J. Langlois

We analyze a recent protocol for the transmission of quantum states via a dual spin chain [Burgarth and Bose, Phys. Rev. A 71, 052315 (2005)] under the constraint that the receiver's measurement strength is finite. That is, we consider the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kosuke Shizume , Kurt Jacobs , Daniel Burgarth , Sougato Bose