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Channel state information is crucial to achieving the capacity of multi-antenna (MIMO) wireless communication systems. It requires estimating the channel matrix. This estimation task is studied, considering a sparse channel model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Luc Le Magoarou , Stéphane Paquelet

One of the most challenging open problems in quantum information theory is to clarify and quantify how entanglement behaves when part of an entangled state is sent through a quantum channel. Of central importance in the description of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Verstraete , Henri Verschelde

Gaussian quantum channels constitute a cornerstone of continuous-variable quantum information science, underpinning a wide array of protocols in quantum optics and quantum metrology. While the action of such channels on arbitrary states is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Pritam Chattopadhyay , Saikat Sur , Jonas F. G. Santos

We define classical-quantum multiway channels for transmission of classical information, after recent work by Allahverdyan and Saakian. Bounds on the capacity region are derived in a uniform way, which are analogous to the classically known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Andreas Winter

We extend the notion of quantum reading to the case where the information to be retrieved, which is encoded into a set of quantum channels, is of quantum nature. We use two qubit unitaries describing the system environment interaction, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Samad Khabbazi-Oskouei , Stefano Mancini , Milajiguli Rexiti

The ability to characterise and discern quantum channels is a crucial aspect of noisy quantum technologies. In this work, we explore the problem of distinguishing quantum channels when limited to sub-exponential resources, framed as von…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Timothy Heightman , Grzegorz Rajchel-Mieldzioć

We present mathematical techniques for addressing two closely related questions in quantum communication theory. In particular, we give a statistically motivated derivation of the Bures-Uhlmann measure of distinguishability for density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher A. Fuchs , Carlton M. Caves

A generic qubit unitary operator affected by depolarizing noise is duplicated and inserted in a quantum switch process realizing a superposition of causal orders. The characterization of the resulting switched quantum channel is worked out…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Francois Chapeau-Blondeau

We make a detailed analysis of quantumness for various quantum noise channels, both Markovian and non-Markovian. The noise channels considered include dephasing channels like random telegraph noise, non-Markovian dephasing and phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Javid Naikoo , Subhashish Banerjee

The quantum capacity of a noisy quantum channel determines the maximal rate at which we can code reliably over asymptotically many uses of the channel, and it characterizes the channel's ultimate ability to transmit quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Xin Wang

The L\"uders rule provides a way to define a quantum channel given a quantum measurement. Using this construction, we establish an if-and-only-if condition for the existence of a $d$-dimensional Symmetric Informationally Complete quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 John B. DeBrota , Blake C. Stacey

The dynamics of quantum systems are generally described by a family of quantum channels (linear, completely positive and trace preserving maps). In this note, we mainly study the range of all possible values of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Yuan Li , Zhengli Chen , Zhihua Guo , Yongfeng Pang

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

We consider the estimation of two-qubit interactions when initial states of both qubit can be locally controlled, while the final state of only one qubit can be measured. This amounts to realize a model of quantum channel communication with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Milajiguli Rexiti , Stefano Mancini

In this paper, we introduce the framework for quantifying the imaginarity of quantum channels. Besides, an alternative framework is given together to simplify the process of verifying the condition. We present three imaginarity measures of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Xiangyu Chen , Qiang Lei

As we enter the era of quantum technologies, quantum estimation theory provides an operationally motivating framework for determining high precision devices in modern technological applications. The aim of any estimation process is to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-02 Abdallah Slaoui , Lalla Btissam Drissi , El Hassan Saidi , Rachid Ahl Laamara

We formulate and study, in general terms, the problem of quantum system identification, i.e., the determination (or estimation) of unknown quantum channels through their action on suitably chosen input density operators. We also present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim Raginsky

In this work, we consider the preservation of a measurement for quantum systems interacting with an environment. Namely, a method of preserving an optimal measurement over a channel is devised, what we call channel coding of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-29 Spiros Kechrimparis , Chahan M. Kropf , Filip Wudarski , Joonwoo Bae

The work is devoted to study of quantum mutual information and coherent information -- the two important characteristics of quantum communication channel. Appropriate definitions of these quantities in the infinite-dimensional case are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-07 A. S. Holevo , M. E. Shirokov

Divergence chain rules for channels relate the divergence of a pair of channel inputs to the divergence of the corresponding channel outputs. An important special case of such a rule is the data-processing inequality, which tells us that if…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Mario Berta , Marco Tomamichel