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Gaussian quantum channels have recently attracted a growing interest, since they may lead to a tractable approach to the generally hard problem of evaluating quantum channel capacities. However, the analysis performed so far has always been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-18 Nicolas J. Cerf , Julien Clavareau , Jérémie Roland , Chiara Macchiavello

We propose a generalization of the quantum entropy power inequality involving conditional entropies. For the special case of Gaussian states, we give a proof based on perturbation theory for symplectic spectra. We discuss some implications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Robert Koenig

Communication rates over quantum channels can be boosted by entanglement, via superadditivity phenomena or entanglement assistance. Superadditivity refers to the capacity improvement from entangling inputs across multiple channel uses.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Haowei Shi , Quntao Zhuang

We establish the classical capacity of optical quantum channels as a sharp transition between two regimes---one which is an error-free regime for communication rates below the capacity, and the other in which the probability of correctly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Bhaskar Roy Bardhan , Raul Garcia-Patron , Mark M. Wilde , Andreas Winter

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

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

Quantum communication is an important branch of quantum information science, promising unconditional security to classical communication and providing the building block of a future large-scale quantum network. Noise in realistic quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-24 Kyungjoo Noh , Stefano Pirandola , Liang Jiang

The coding theorem for the entanglement-assisted communication via infinite-dimensional quantum channel with linear constraint is extended to a natural degree of generality. Relations between the entanglement-assisted classical capacity and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. S. Holevo , M. E. Shirokov

We consider a quantum bosonic channel that couples the input mode via a beam splitter or two-mode squeezer to an environmental mode that is prepared in an arbitrary state. We investigate the classical capacity of this channel, which we call…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Zacharie Van Herstraeten , Saikat Guha , Nicolas J. Cerf

The additivity problem asks if the use of entanglement can boost the information-carrying capacity of a given channel beyond what is achievable by coding with simple product states only. This has recently been shown not to be the case for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 Stefan Huber , Robert Koenig

We determine the p->q norms of the Gaussian one-mode quantum-limited attenuator and amplifier and prove that they are achieved by Gaussian states, extending to noncommutative probability the seminal theorem "Gaussian kernels have only…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Giacomo De Palma , Dario Trevisan , Vittorio Giovannetti

Information theory, though originally developed for communications engineering, provides mathematical tools with broad applications across science. These tools characterize the fundamental limits of data compression and transmission in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Henry Pinkard , Laura Waller

Recently, there have been considerable progresses on the bounds of various quantum channel capacities for bosonic Gaussian channels. Especially, several upper bounds for the classical capacity and the quantum capacity on the bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Kabgyun Jeong

We investigate the capacity of bosonic quantum channels for the transmission of quantum information. Achievable rates are determined from measurable moments of the channel by showing that every channel can asymptotically simulate a Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael M. Wolf , David Perez-Garcia , Geza Giedke

The optimal rate of reliable communication over a quantum channel can be enhanced by pre-shared entanglement. Whereas the enhancement may be unbounded in infinite-dimensional settings even when the input power is constrained, a…

The present paper is devoted to investigation of the entropy reduction and entanglement-assisted classical capacity (information gain) of continuous variable quantum measurements. These quantities are computed explicitly for multimode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-31 A. S. Holevo , A. A. Kuznetsova

We investigate Gaussian quantum states in view of their exceptional role within the space of all continuous variables states. A general method for deriving extremality results is provided and applied to entanglement measures, secret key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael M. Wolf , Geza Giedke , J. Ignacio Cirac

We prove the multimode conditional quantum Entropy Power Inequality for bosonic quantum systems. This inequality determines the minimum conditional von Neumann entropy of the output of the most general linear mixing of bosonic quantum modes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Alessandro Falco , Giacomo De Palma

Entropic quantifiers of states lie at the cornerstone of the quantum information theory. While a quantum state can be abstracted as a device that only has outputs, the most general quantum device is a quantum channel that also has inputs.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Xiao Yuan

Using random Gaussian vectors and an information-uncertainty relation, we give a proof that the coherent information is an achievable rate for entanglement transmission through a noisy quantum channel. The codes are random subspaces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-06 Patrick Hayden , Peter W. Shor , Andreas Winter