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Communication over a noisy quantum channel introduces errors in the transmission that must be corrected. A fundamental bound on quantum error correction is the quantum capacity, which quantifies the amount of quantum data that can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-20 Graeme Smith , Jon Yard

We define the quantum zero-error capacity, a new kind of classical capacity of a noisy quantum channel. Moreover, the necessary requirement for which a quantum channel has zero-error capacity greater than zero is also given.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rex A. C. Medeiros , Francisco M. de Assis

Suppose that $m$ senders want to transmit classical information to $n$ receivers with zero probability of error using a noisy multipartite communication channel. The senders are allowed to exchange classical, but not quantum, messages among…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-25 Runyao Duan , Yaoyun Shi

In Shannon information theory the capacity of a memoryless communication channel cannot be increased by the use of feedback from receiver to sender. In this paper the use of classical feedback is shown to provide no increase in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Garry Bowen , Rajagopal Nagarajan

We investigate whether the use of a noiseless, classical feedback channel will increase the capacity of a quantum discrete memoryless channel to transmit classical information. This problem has been previously analyzed by Bowen and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew Skeen

We define here a new kind of quantum channel capacity by extending the concept of zero-error capacity for a noisy quantum channel. The necessary requirement for which a quantum channel has zero-error capacity greater than zero is given.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rex A. C. Medeiros , Francisco M. De Assis

We show that unbounded number of channel uses may be necessary for perfect transmission of quantum information. For any n we explicitly construct low-dimensional quantum channels ($d_A$=4, $d_E$=2 or 4) whose quantum zero-error capacity is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-30 M. E. Shirokov

The optimal rate at which information can be sent through a quantum channel when the transmitted signal must simultaneously carry some minimum amount of energy is characterized. To do so, we introduce the quantum-classical analogue of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Bishal Kumar Das , Lav R. Varshney , Vaibhav Madhok

We initiate the study of zero-error communication via quantum channels when the receiver and sender have at their disposal a noiseless feedback channel of unlimited quantum capacity, generalizing Shannon's zero-error communication theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-18 Runyao Duan , Simone Severini , Andreas Winter

The superactivation of zero-capacity quantum channels makes it possible to use two zero-capacity quantum channels with a positive joint capacity at the output. Currently, we have no theoretical background for describing all possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Laszlo Gyongyosi

Current advancements in communication equipment demand the investigation of classical information transfer over quantum channels, by encompassing realistic scenarios in finite dimensions. To address this issue, we develop a framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Sudipta Mondal , Pritam Halder , Saptarshi Roy , Aditi Sen De

Superactivation of quantum capacity is the phenomenon whereby two quantum channels, each with zero quantum capacity, can exhibit a strictly positive capacity when used in tandem. In this work, we explore superactivation in the previously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Marco Parentin , Bjarne Bergh , Nilanjana Datta , Mark M. Wilde

We consider the problem of trying to send a single classical bit through a noisy quantum channel when two transmissions through the channel are available as a resource. Classically, two transmissions add nothing to the receiver's capability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles H. Bennett , Christopher A. Fuchs , John A. Smolin

The design of error-correcting codes used in modern communications relies on information theory to quantify the capacity of a noisy channel to send information [1]. This capacity can be expressed using the mutual information between input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 M. B. Hastings

Classical feedback is defined here as the knowledge by the transmitter of the quantum state of the qubit received by the receiver. Such classical feedback doubles capacities of certain memoryless quantum channels without preexisting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gleb V. Klimovitch

The zero-error capacity of quantum channels was defined as the least upper bound of rates at which classical information can be transmitted through a quantum channel with probability of error equal to zero. This paper investigates some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rex A C Medeiros , Romain Alleaume , Gerard Cohen , Francisco M. de Assis

We study the one-shot zero-error classical capacity of a quantum channel assisted by quantum no-signalling correlations, and the reverse problem of exact simulation of a prescribed channel by a noiseless classical one. Quantum no-signalling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 Runyao Duan , Andreas Winter

With the rapid deployment of quantum computers and quantum satellites, there is a pressing need to design and deploy quantum and hybrid classical-quantum networks capable of exchanging classical information. In this context, we conduct the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 Indrakshi Dey , Harun Siljak , Nicola Marchetti

The entanglement-assisted classical capacity of a noisy quantum channel is the amount of information per channel use that can be sent over the channel in the limit of many uses of the channel, assuming that the sender and receiver have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles H. Bennett , Peter W. Shor , John A. Smolin , Ashish V. Thapliyal

Noisy quantum channels may be used in many information carrying applications. We show that different applications may result in different channel capacities. Upper bounds on several of these capacities are proved. These bounds are based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Howard Barnum , M. A. Nielsen , Benjamin Schumacher