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The most important ability of a quantum channel is to preserve the quantum properties of transmitted quantum states. We experimentally demonstrate a continuous-variable system for efficient benchmarking of quantum channels. We probe the…

The goal of quantum channel discrimination and estimation is to determine the identity of an unknown channel from a discrete or continuous set, respectively. The query complexity of these tasks is equal to the minimum number of times one…

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We report experimental implementation of various types of qubit channels using an individual trapped ion. We analyzed experimental data and we performed tomographic reconstruction of quantum channels based on these data. Specifically, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-07 Thilo Hannemann , Christof Wunderlich , Martin Plesch , Mario Ziman , Vladimir Buzek

In some applications of frequency estimation, it is challenging to sample at as high as the Nyquist rate due to hardware limitations. An effective solution is to use multiple sub-Nyquist channels with coprime undersampling ratios to jointly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Shan Huang , Haijian Zhang , Hong Sun , Lei Yu

Given a protocol ${\cal P}$ that implements multipartite quantum channel ${\cal E}$ by repeated rounds of local operations and classical communication (LOCC), we construct an alternate LOCC protocol for ${\cal E}$ in no more rounds than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Scott M. Cohen

Quantum hypothesis testing is a central task in the entire field of quantum information theory. Understanding its ultimate limits will give insight into a wide range of quantum protocols and applications, from sensing to communication.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Quntao Zhuang , Stefano Pirandola

We develop an approximation approach to infinite dimensional quantum channels based on detailed investigation of the continuity properties of entropic characteristics of quantum channels and operations (trace-nonincreasing completely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-17 M. E. Shirokov , A. S. Holevo

We consider the estimation of noise parameters in a quantum channel, assuming the most general strategy allowed by quantum mechanics. This is based on the exploitation of unlimited entanglement and arbitrary quantum operations, so that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Stefano Pirandola , Cosmo Lupo

The study of quantum channels is the fundamental field and promises wide range of applications, because any physical process can be represented as a quantum channel transforming an initial state into a final state. Inspired by the method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Shi-Jie Wei , Tao Xin , Gui-Lu Long

Quantum state tomography (QST) aiming at reconstructing the density matrix of a quantum state plays an important role in various emerging quantum technologies. Recognizing the challenges posed by imperfect measurement data, we develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Hailan Ma , Daoyi Dong , Ian R. Petersen , Chang-Jiang Huang , Guo-Yong Xiang

We develop a theory for finding quantum error correction (QEC) procedures which are optimized for given noise channels. Our theory accounts for uncertainties in the noise channel, against which our QEC procedures are robust. We demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-28 Soraya Taghavi , Robert L. Kosut , Daniel A. Lidar

Optimization problems in disciplines such as machine learning are commonly solved with iterative methods. Gradient descent algorithms find local minima by moving along the direction of steepest descent while Newton's method takes into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Patrick Rebentrost , Maria Schuld , Leonard Wossnig , Francesco Petruccione , Seth Lloyd

Quantum hypothesis testing is an important tool for quantum information processing. Two main strategies have been widely adopted: in a minimum error discrimination strategy, the average error probability is minimized; while in an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Quntao Zhuang

Channel estimation is of paramount importance in most communication systems in order to optimize the data rate/energy consumption tradeoff. In modern systems, the possibly large number of transmit/receive antennas and subcarriers makes this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Luc Le Magoarou , Stéphane Paquelet

The errors that arise in a quantum channel can be corrected perfectly if and only if the channel does not decrease the coherent information of the input state. We show that, if the loss of coherent information is small, then approximate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Benjamin Schumacher , Michael D. Westmoreland

In the problem of channel resolvability, where a given output probability distribution via a channel is approximated by transforming the uniform random numbers, characterizing the asymptotically minimum rate of the size of the random…

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The measured relative entropies of quantum states and channels find operational significance in quantum information theory as achievable error rates in hypothesis testing tasks. They are of interest in the near term, as they correspond to…

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The use of machine learning methods to tackle challenging physical layer signal processing tasks has attracted significant attention. In this work, we focus on the use of neural networks (NNs) to perform pilot-assisted channel estimation in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Michel van Lier , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Henk Corporaaal , Zoran Zivkovic

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

Quantum channels underlie the dynamics of quantum systems, but in many practical settings it is the channels themselves that require processing. We establish universal limitations on the processing of both quantum states and channels,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Bartosz Regula , Ryuji Takagi