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The quantum Fisher information (QFI), as a function of quantum states, measures the amount of information that a quantum state carries about an unknown parameter. The (entanglement-assisted) QFI of a quantum channel is defined to be the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-06 Sisi Zhou , Liang Jiang

We consider an arbitrary qubit channel depending on a single parameter, which is to be estimated by a physical process. Using the quantum Fisher information per channel invocation to quantify the estimation accuracy, we consider various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 David Collins

Quantum communications using continuous variables are quite mature experimental techniques and the relevant theories have been extensively investigated with various methods. In this paper, we study the continuous variable quantum channels…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tao Qin , Meisheng Zhao , Yongde Zhang

Quantum communication holds the potential to revolutionize information transmission by enabling secure data exchange that exceeds the limits of classical systems. One of the key performance metrics in quantum information theory, namely the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Hong Niu , Chau Yuen , Alexei Ashikhmin , Lajos Hanzo

State transformations in quantum mechanics are described by completely positive maps which are constructed from quantum channels. We call a finest sharp quantum channel a context. The result of a measurement depends on the context under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-01 Stan Gudder

Simulating quantum physical processes has been one of the major motivations for quantum information science. Quantum channels, which are completely positive and trace preserving processes, are the standard mathematical language to describe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Hang Li , Kai Wang , Shijie Wei , Fan Yang , Xinyu Chen , Barry C. Sanders , Dong-Sheng Wang , Gui-Lu Long

Modern applications of quantum control in quantum information science and technology require the precise characterization of quantum states and quantum channels. In particular, high-performance quantum state engineering often demands that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Wenqiang Zheng , Hengyan Wang , Tao Xin , Xinfang Nie , Dawei Lu , Jun Li

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

Quantum mechanics sets limits on how fast quantum processes can run given some system energy through time-energy uncertainty relations, and they imply that time and energy are tradeoff against each other. Thus, we propose to measure the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-10 Chi-Hang Fred Fung , H. F. Chau

Unambiguous unitary maps and unambiguous unitary quantum channels are introduced and some of their properties are derived. These properties ensure certain simple form for the measurements involved in realizing an unambiguous unitary quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-14 Shengjun Wu , Xuemei Chen

Quantum channels represent a broad spectrum of operations crucial to quantum information theory, encompassing everything from the transmission of quantum information to the manipulation of various resources. In the domain of states, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Gilad Gour , Doyeong Kim , Takla Nateeboon , Guy Shemesh , Goni Yoeli

We study the quality of service in quantum channels. We regard the quantum channel as a queueing system, and present queueing analysis of both the classical information transmission and quantum information transmission in the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-13 Fengyou Sun

We investigate the coherence of quantum channels and establish a resource theory for quantifying the coherence of quantum channels via Choi matrix. To this aim, we define the incoherent channels and incoherent superchannels. This theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Jianwei Xu

Determining whether a noisy quantum channel can be used to reliably transmit quantum information at a non-zero rate is a challenging problem in quantum information theory. This is because it requires computation of the channel's coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Satvik Singh , Nilanjana Datta

We introduce and experimentally demonstrate a method for realising a quantum channel using the measurement-based model. Using a photonic setup and modifying the bases of single-qubit measurements on a four-qubit entangled cluster state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 W. McCutcheon , A. McMillan , J. G. Rarity , M. S. Tame

We consider the problem of determining the weights of a quantum ensemble. That is to say, given a quantum system that is in a set of possible known states according to an unknown probability law, we give strategies to estimate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-01 J. I. de Vicente , J. Calsamiglia , R. Munoz-Tapia , E. Bagan

Quantum Fisher information is the principal tool used to give the ultimate precision bound on the estimation of parameters for quantum channels. In this work, we present analytical expressions for the quantum Fisher information with three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Lorenzo M. Procopio

Quantum measurements, alongside quantum states and processes, form a cornerstone of quantum information processing. However, unlike states and processes, their efficient characterisation remains relatively unexplored. We resolve this…

The computational problem of distinguishing two quantum channels is central to quantum computing. It is a generalization of the well-known satisfiability problem from classical to quantum computation. This problem is shown to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Bill Rosgen

Quantum supermaps are a higher-order generalization of quantum maps, taking quantum maps to quantum maps. It is known that any completely positive, trace non-increasing (CPTNI) map can be performed as part of a quantum measurement. By…