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It is well known that quantum theory forbids the exact copying of an unknown quantum state. Therefore in broadcasting of classical information by a quantum channel an additional contribution to the error in the decoding is expected. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Allahverdyan , D. B. Saakian

Existing information-theoretic frameworks based on maximum entropy network ensembles are not able to explain the emergence of heterogeneity in complex networks. Here, we fill this gap of knowledge by developing a classical framework for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-08 Filippo Radicchi , Dmitri Krioukov , Harrison Hartle , Ginestra Bianconi

Holevo, Schumacher, and Westmoreland's coding theorem guarantees the existence of codes that are capacity-achieving for the task of sending classical data over a channel with classical inputs and quantum outputs. Although they demonstrated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-21 Mark M. Wilde , Saikat Guha

This article argues that the Situation theory and the Channel theory can be used as a general framework for Imperfect Information Management. Different kinds of imperfections are uncertainty, imprecision, vagueness, incompleteness,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Farhad Naderian

Shannon's theory of information was built on the assumption that the information carriers were classical systems. Its quantum counterpart, quantum Shannon theory, explores the new possibilities arising when the information carriers are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 Giulio Chiribella , Hlér Kristjánsson

Information theory establishes the fundamental limits on data transmission, storage, and processing. Quantum information theory unites information theoretic ideas with an accurate quantum-mechanical description of reality to give a more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Andrew W. Cross , Ke Li , Graeme Smith

We use the system of p-adic numbers for the description of information processes. Basic objects of our models are so called transformers of information, basic processes are information processes, the statistics are information statistics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei Khrennikov

We consider quantum channels with two senders and one receiver. For an arbitrary such channel, we give multi-letter characterizations of two different two-dimensional capacity regions. The first region is comprised of the rates at which it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-25 Jon Yard , Igor Devetak , Patrick Hayden

This paper considers the comparison of noisy channels from the viewpoint of statistical decision theory. Various orderings are discussed, all formalizing the idea that one channel is "better" than another for information transmission. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Francesco Buscemi

We consider ergodic causal classical-quantum channels (cq-channels) which additionally have a decaying input memory. In the first part we develop some structural properties of ergodic cq-channels and provide equivalent conditions for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Igor Bjelakovic , Holger Boche

We discuss how continuous probing of a quantum system allows estimation of unknown classical parameters embodied in the Hamiltonian of the system. We generalize the stochastic master equation associated with continuous observation processes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-09 Antonio Negretti , Klaus Mølmer

The group symmetries inherent in quantum channels often make them tractable and applicable to various problems in quantum information theory. In this paper, we introduce natural probability distributions for covariant quantum channels.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Ion Nechita , Sang-Jun Park

Transmitting data reliably over noisy communication channels is one of the most important applications of information theory, and well understood when the channel is accurately modelled by classical physics. However, when quantum effects…

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

Traditional channel capacity based on the discrete spatial dimensions mismatches the continuous electromagnetic fields. For the wireless communication system in a limited region, the spatial discretization may results in information loss…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhongzhichao Wan , Jieao Zhu , Zijian Zhang , Linglong Dai , Chan-Byoung Chae

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

Similar to the energy flowing process in traditional heat engines, information could be considered to flow in the communication systems with the form of energy and entropy. Combining the thermodynamic Carnot machine and the classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Muyuo Ruan , Xiaohu Ge

A multiple access channel (MAC) consists of multiple senders simultaneously transmitting their messages to a single receiver. For the classical-quantum case (cq-MAC), achievable rates are known assuming that all the messages are decoded, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Masahito Hayashi , Angeles Vazquez-Castro

Shannon's information theory deliberately excludes message semantics. This paper develops a rigorous framework for semantic communication that integrates formal proof systems with Shannon-theoretic tools. We introduce an axiomatic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jianfeng Xu

This paper proposes a reconciliation of two different theories of information. The first, originally proposed in a lesser-known work by Claude Shannon, describes how the information content of channels can be described qualitatively, but…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Sebastian Hunt , David Sands , Sandro Stucki