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The nonadditivity of channel capacity is a defining feature that distinguishes quantum communication from classical communication. In the quantum realm, the channel capacity is determined by coherent information, which is defined through…

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Efficient transfer of quantum information between remote parties is a crucial challenge for quantum communication over atmospheric channels. Random fluctuations of the channel transmittance are a major disturbing factor for its practical…

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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…

We consider the scenario of classical communication over a finite-dimensional quantum channel with memory using a separable-state input ensemble and local output measurements. We propose algorithms for estimating the information rate of…

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A recent method to certify the classical capacity of quantum communication channels is applied for general damping channels in finite dimension. The method compares the mutual information obtained by coding on the computational and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-23 Chiara Macchiavello , Massimiliano F. Sacchi , Tito Sacchi

The study of non-classicality is essential to understand the quantum-to-classical transition in physical systems. Recently, a witness of non-classicality has been proposed, linking the ability of a system (``the mediator") to create quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Salvatore Raia , Giuseppe Di Pietra , Chiara Marletto

Quantum teleportation provides a way to transfer unknown quantum states from one system to another via an entangled state as a quantum channel without physical transmission of the object itself. The entangled channel, measurement performed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Xiang Chen , Yao Shen , Fu-Lin Zhang

This thesis explores ways in which quantum channels and correlations (of both classical and quantum types) manifest themselves, and also studies the interplay between these two aspects in various physical settings. Quantum channels…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Krishna Kumar Sabapathy

As with classical information, error-correcting codes enable reliable transmission of quantum information through noisy or lossy channels. In contrast to the classical theory, imperfect quantum channels exhibit a strong kind of synergy:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Graeme Smith , John A. Smolin , Jon Yard

We exhibit discrete memoryless quantum channels whose quantum capacity assisted by two-way classical communication, $Q_2$, exceeds their unassisted one-shot Holevo capacity $C_H$. These channels may be thought of as having a data input and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles H. Bennett , Igor Devetak , Peter W. Shor , John A. Smolin

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 mathematical framework of quantum theory, though fundamentally distinct from classical physics, raises the question of whether quantum processes can be efficiently simulated using classical resources. For instance, a sender (Alice)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Sahil Gopalkrishna Naik , Mani Zartab , Nicolas Gisin , Manik Banik

We introduce and analyze an information theoretical task that we call the quantum multiple-access one-time pad. Here, a number of senders initially share a correlated quantum state with a receiver and an eavesdropper. Each sender performs a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-26 Eyuri Wakakuwa

When classical information is sent through a quantum channel of nonorthogonal states, there is a possibility that transmittable classical information exceeds a channel capacity in a single use of the initial channel by extending it into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Masahide Sasaki , Kentaro Kato , Masayuki Izutsu , Osamu Hirota

We reflect on the information paradigm in quantum and gravitational physics and on how it may assist us in approaching quantum gravity. We begin by arguing, using a reconstruction of its formalism, that quantum theory can be regarded as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-22 Philipp A Hoehn

We study the effects of quantum entanglement on the performance of two classical zero-error communication tasks among multiple parties. Both tasks are generalizations of the two-party zero-error channel-coding problem, where a sender and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-21 Teresa Piovesan , Giannicola Scarpa , Christian Schaffner

Information exchange between two distant parties, where information is shared without physically transporting it, is a crucial resource in future quantum networks. Doing so with high-dimensional states offers the promise of higher…

Quantum Counterfactual Communication is the recently-proposed idea of using quantum physics to send messages between two parties, without any matter/energy transfer associated with the bits sent. While this has excited massive interest,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-08 Jonte R. Hance , James Ladyman , John Rarity

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