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Understanding the classical communication cost of simulating a quantum channel is a fundamental problem in quantum information theory, which becomes even more intriguing when considering the role of non-locality in quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Chengkai Zhu , Xuanqiang Zhao , Xin Wang

The entanglement cost of a quantum channel is the minimal rate at which entanglement (between sender and receiver) is needed in order to simulate many copies of a quantum channel in the presence of free classical communication. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Mario Berta , Fernando Brandao , Matthias Christandl , Stephanie Wehner

An upper limit is given to the amount of quantum information that can be transmitted reliably down a noisy, decoherent quantum channel. A class of quantum error-correcting codes is presented that allow the information transmitted to attain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Seth Lloyd

Quantum queue-channels arise naturally in the context of buffering in quantum networks, wherein the noise suffered by the quantum states depends on the time spent waiting in the buffer. It has been shown that the upper-bound on the…

Arbitrarily varying channels offer a powerful framework for analyzing the robustness of quantum communication systems, especially for classical-quantum models, where the analysis displays strengths or weaknesses of specific signal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Janis Nötzel , Florian Seitz

We determine the capacity of compound classical-quantum channels. As a consequence we obtain the capacity formula for the averaged classical-quantum channels. The capacity result for compound channels demonstrates, as in the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-16 Igor Bjelakovic , Holger Boche

A general quantum noisy channel is analyzed, wherein the transmitted qubits may experience symmetry-breaking decoherence, along with memory effects. We find the optimal basis not to be fully entangled, but a combination of factorized and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Goren Gordon , Gershon Kurizki

We consider a setting where a stream of qubits is processed sequentially. We derive fundamental limits on the rate at which classical information can be transmitted using qubits that decohere as they wait to be processed. Specifically, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Prabha Mandayam , Krishna Jagannathan , Avhishek Chatterjee

We discuss the capacity of quantum channels for information transmission and storage. Quantum channels have dual uses: they can be used to transmit known quantum states which code for classical information, and they can be used in a purely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 C. Adami , N. J. Cerf

Quantum capacity gives the fundamental limit of information transmission through a channel. However, evaluating the quantum capacities of a continuous-variable bosonic quantum channel, as well as finding an optimal code to achieve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Adam Taylor , Michael Hanks , Hyukjoon Kwon , M. S. Kim

The purpose of this work is to extend the result of previous papers quant-ph/9611023, quant-ph/9703013 to quantum channels with additive constraints onto the input signal, by showing that the capacity of such channel is equal to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Holevo

Fundamental limits on communication rates over quantum channels are given by mathematical expressions involving entropic formulas. Often, it is unclear if these expressions are computable. This thesis describes contributions to the study of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-28 Mohammad A. Alhejji

Designing encoding and decoding circuits to reliably send messages over many uses of a noisy channel is a central problem in communication theory. When studying the optimal transmission rates achievable with asymptotically vanishing error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Matthias Christandl , Alexander Müller-Hermes

Optimization methods aimed at estimating the capacities of a general Gaussian channel are developed. Specifically evaluation of classical capacity as maximum of the Holevo information is pursued over all possible Gaussian encodings for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-12 Oleg V. Pilyavets , Cosmo Lupo , Stefano Mancini

In this article, we are proposing a closed-form solution for the capacity of the single quantum channel. The Gaussian distributed input has been considered for the analytical calculation of the capacity. In our previous couple of papers, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Mouli Chakraborty , Harun Siljak , Indrakshi Dey , Nicola Marchetti

One of the main figures of merit for quantum memories and quantum communication devices is their quantum capacity. It has been studied for arbitrary kinds of quantum channels, but its practical estimation has so far been limited to devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Corsin Pfister , M. Adriaan Rol , Atul Mantri , Marco Tomamichel , Stephanie Wehner

We give a capacity formula for the classical information transmission over a noisy quantum channel, with separable encoding by the sender and limited resources provided by the receiver's pre-shared ancilla. Instead of a pure state, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-22 Quntao Zhuang , Elton Yechao Zhu , Peter W. Shor

We calculate the quantum capacity of an amplitude-damping channel with time correlated Markov noise, for two channel uses. Our results show that memory of the channel increases it's ability to transmit quantum information significantly. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-03 Rabia Jahangir , Nigum Arshed , A. H. Toor

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

Two new classes of quantum channels, which we call more capable and less noisy, are introduced. The more capable class consists of channels such that the quantum capacities of the complementary channels to the environments are zero. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-26 Shun Watanabe