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Time-varying quantum channels are essential for modeling realistic quantum systems with evolving noise properties. Here, we consider Gaussian lossy channels varying from one use to another and we employ neural networks to classify, regress,…

We study the problem of simulating protocols in a quantum communication setting over noisy channels. This problem falls at the intersection of quantum information theory and quantum communication complexity, and it will be of importance for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Gilles Brassard , Ashwin Nayak , Alain Tapp , Dave Touchette , Falk Unger

We consider transmission of an (unknown) quantum state between two distant atoms via photons. Based on a quantum-optical realistic model, we define a noisy quantum channel which includes systematic errors as well as errors due to coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 S. J. van Enk , J. I. Cirac , P. Zoller

We consider a line with noise in the simplest case. Loss does not add noise. Amplification via phase insensitive amplifiers do add noise. A lower bound of this capacity is the quantum analog to the Shannon capacity of a linear channel with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 Antonio Mecozzi

We derive the general formula for the capacity of a noiseless quantum channel assisted by an arbitrary amount of noisy entanglement. In this capacity formula, the ratio of the quantum mutual information and the von Neumann entropy of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michal Horodecki , Pawel Horodecki , Ryszard Horodecki , Debbie Leung , Barbara Terhal

In a continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) protocol, which is based on heterodyne detection at the receiver, the application of a noiseless linear amplifier (NLA) on the received signal before the detection can be emulated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Nedasadat Hosseinidehaj , Andrew M. Lance , Thomas Symul , Nathan Walk , Timothy C. Ralph

The use of distributed amplifiers may have some potential advantages for the transmission of quantum information through optical fibers. In addition to the quantum noise introduced by the amplifiers, entanglement between atoms in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-26 J. D. Franson , B. T. Kirby

Noise mitigation and reduction will be crucial for obtaining useful answers from near-term quantum computers. In this work, we present a general framework based on machine learning for reducing the impact of quantum hardware noise on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Lukasz Cincio , Kenneth Rudinger , Mohan Sarovar , Patrick J. Coles

Quantum-limited amplifiers increase the amplitude of quantum signals at the price of introducing additional noise. Quantum purification protocols operate in the reverse way, by reducing the noise while attenuating the signal. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Xiaobin Zhao , Giulio Chiribella

The noiseless amplification or attenuation are two heralded filtering operations that enable respectively to increase or decrease the mean field of any quantum state of light with no added noise, at the cost of a small success probability.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Jaromir Fiurasek , Nicolas J. Cerf

The ubiquitous presence of shot noise sets a fundamental limit to the measurement precision in classical metrology. Recent advances in quantum devices and novel quantum algorithms utilizing interference effects are opening new routes for…

A universal deterministic noiseless quantum amplifier has been shown to be impossible. However, probabilistic noiseless amplification of a certain set of states is physically permissible. Regarding quantum state amplification as quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 M. J. Hu , Y. S. Zhang

Dynamics of many-qubit systems, that may correspond to computational processing with quantum systems, can be efficiently and generally approximated by a sequence of two- and single-qubit gates. In practical applications, however, a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Joonwoo Bae , Tanmay Singal

We introduce a linear optical technique that can implement ideal quantum tele-amplification up to the $n^\mathrm{th}$ Fock state, where $n$ can be any positive integer. Here tele-amplification consists of both quantum teleportation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Joshua J. Guanzon , Matthew S. Winnel , Austin P. Lund , Timothy C. Ralph

Quantum networks, which integrate multiple quantum computers and the channels connecting them, are crucial for distributed quantum information processing but remain inherently susceptible to channel noise. Channel purification emerges as a…

Quantum metrology overcomes standard precision limits and plays a central role in science and technology. Practically it is vulnerable to imperfections such as decoherence. Here, we demonstrate quantum metrology for noisy channels such that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Kunkun Wang , Xiaoping Wang , Xiang Zhan , Zhihao Bian , Jian Li , Barry C. Sanders , Peng Xue

The topic of quantum noise has become extremely timely due to the rise of quantum information physics and the resulting interchange of ideas between the condensed matter and AMO/quantum optics communities. This review gives a pedagogical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-16 A. A. Clerk , M. H. Devoret , S. M. Girvin , F. Marquardt , R. J. Schoelkopf

The reliable characterization of quantum states is a fundamental task in quantum information science. For this purpose, quantum state tomography provides a standard framework for reconstructing quantum states from measurement data, yet it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yixuan Hu , Mengru Ma , Jiangwei Shang

Characterizing quantum processes is crucial for the execution of quantum algorithms on available quantum devices. A powerful framework for this purpose is the Quantum Model Learning Agent (QMLA) which characterizes a given system by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Lorenzo Fioroni , Ivan Rojkov , Florentin Reiter

A minimal energy quantum superposition of two maximally distinguishable, isoenergetic single mode Gaussian states is used to construct the system-environment representation of a class of linear bosonic quantum channels acting on a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-13 T. J. Volkoff