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We propose a new proof method for direct coding theorems for wiretap channels where the eavesdropper has access to a quantum version of the transmitted signal on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space and the legitimate parties communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Matthias Frey , Igor Bjelaković , Janis Nötzel , Sławomir Stańczak

We consider a queue-channel model that captures the waiting time-dependent degradation of information bits as they wait to be transmitted. Such a scenario arises naturally in quantum communications, where quantum bits tend to decohere…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Jaswanthi Mandalapu , Krishna Jagannathan , Avhishek Chatterjee , Andrew Thangaraj

A lossy source coding problem with privacy constraint is studied in which two correlated discrete sources $X$ and $Y$ are compressed into a reconstruction $\hat{X}$ with some prescribed distortion $D$. In addition, a privacy constraint is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-23 Farshid Mokhtarinezhad , Joerg Kliewer , Osvaldo Simeone

Quantum key distribution relies on quantum mechanics to securely distribute cryptographic keys, offering security but necessitating complex infrastructure and significant resources for practical implementation. Quantum keyless private…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Pedro Neto Mendes , Davide Rusca , Hugo Zbinden , Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro

This paper investigates universal polar coding schemes. In particular, a notion of ordering (called convolutional path) is introduced between probability distributions to determine when a polar compression (or communication) scheme designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-03 Emmanuel Abbe

Communication over a random-parameter quantum channel when the decoder is required to reconstruct the parameter sequence is considered. We study scenarios that include either strictly-causal, causal, or non-causal channel side information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Uzi Pereg

Encoding schemes and error-correcting codes are widely used in information technology to improve the reliability of data transmission over real-world communication channels. Quantum information protocols can further enhance the performance…

Explicit coding schemes are proposed to achieve the rate-distortion function of the Heegard-Berger problem using polar codes. Specifically, a nested polar code construction is employed to achieve the rate-distortion function for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Jinwen Shi , Ling Liu , Deniz Gündüz , Cong Ling

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

Polar codes provably achieve the capacity of a wide array of channels under successive decoding. This assumes infinite precision arithmetic. Given the successive nature of the decoding algorithm, one might worry about the sensitivity of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-21 S. Hamed Hassani , Rudiger Urbanke

The polar codes introduced by Arikan in 2009 achieve the capacity of binary-input discrete memoryless channels (BIDMCs) with low complexity encoding and decoding. Identifying the unreliable synthetic channels, generated by Arikan…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yadong Jiao , Xiaoyan Cheng , Yuansheng Tang , Ming Xu

Controlling the depolarization of light is a long-standing open problem. In recent years, many demonstrations have used the polarization of single photons to encode quantum information. The depolarization of these photons is equivalent to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 A. Shaham , H. S. Eisenberg

The use of quantum computation for wireless network applications is emerging as a promising paradigm to bridge the performance gap between in-practice and optimal wireless algorithms. While today's quantum technology offers limited number…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Srikar Kasi , John Kaewell , Shahab Hamidi-Rad , Kyle Jamieson

Inevitably, assessing the overall performance of a quantum computer must rely on characterizing some of its elementary constituents and, from this information, formulate a broader statement concerning more complex constructions thereof.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Arnaud Carignan-Dugas , Matthew Alexander , Joseph Emerson

Polar codes have been gaining a lot of interest due to it being the first coding scheme to provably achieve the symmetric capacity of a binary memoryless channel with an explicit construction. However, the main drawback of polar codes is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Heshani Gamage , Vismika Ranasinghe , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

The polar transformation of a binary erasure channel (BEC) can be exactly approximated by other BECs. Ar{\i}kan proposed that polar codes for a BEC can be efficiently constructed by using its useful property. This study proposes a new class…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Yuta Sakai , Ken-ichi Iwata

Polar codes introduced by Arikan in 2009 are the first code family achieving the capacity of binary-input discrete memoryless channels (BIDMCs) with low-complexity encoding and decoding. Identifying unreliable synthetic channels in polar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Yadong Jiao , Xiaoyan Cheng , Yuansheng Tang , Ming Xu

We consider the wiretap channel, where the individual channel uses have memory or are influenced by an adversary. We analyze the explicit and computationally efficient construction of information-theoretically secure coding schemes which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Esther Hänggi , Iyán Méndez Veiga , Ligong Wang

In this work we improve the quantum communication rates of various quantum channels of interest using permutation-invariant quantum codes. We focus in particular on parametrized families of quantum channels and aim to improve bounds on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Sujeet Bhalerao , Felix Leditzky

We present an experiment demonstrating entanglement-enhanced classical communication capacity of a quantum channel with correlated noise. The channel is modelled by a fiber optic link exhibiting random birefringence that fluctuates on a…

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