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The goal of quantum channel discrimination and estimation is to determine the identity of an unknown channel from a discrete or continuous set, respectively. The query complexity of these tasks is equal to the minimum number of times one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Zixin Huang , Johannes Jakob Meyer , Theshani Nuradha , Mark M. Wilde

In this paper, we address the problem of discriminating two given quantum operations. Firstly, based on the Bloch representation of single qubit systems, we give the exact minimum error probability of discriminating two single qubit quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-10 Lvzhou Li , Daowen Qiu

The set of doubly-stochastic quantum channels and its subset of mixtures of unitaries are investigated. We provide a detailed analysis of their structure together with computable criteria for the separation of the two sets. When applied to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Christian B. Mendl , Michael M. Wolf

We consider the general problem of the optimal transformation of N uses of (possibly different) unitary channels to a single use of another unitary channel in any finite dimension. We show how the optimal transformation can be fully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 Alessandro Bisio , Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano , Paolo Perinotti , Michal Sedlak

There are a few obstacles, which bring about imperfect quantum teleportation of a continuous variable state, such as unavailability of maximally entangled two-mode squeezed states, inefficient detection and imperfect unitary transformation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. S. Kim , Jinhyoung Lee

We consider the estimation of noise parameters in a quantum channel, assuming the most general strategy allowed by quantum mechanics. This is based on the exploitation of unlimited entanglement and arbitrary quantum operations, so that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Stefano Pirandola , Cosmo Lupo

This thesis includes a survey of the results known for private and approximate private quantum channels. We develop the best known upper bound for $\epsilon$-randomizing maps, $n+2\log(1/\epsilon)+c$ bits required to $\epsilon$-randomize an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Dickinson

We explore the task of optimal quantum channel identification, and in particular the estimation of a general one parameter quantum process. We derive new characterizations of optimality and apply the results to several examples including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mohan Sarovar , G. J. Milburn

A method to optimize the cost of a quantum channel is developed. The goal is to determine the cheapest channel that produces prescribed output states for a given set of input states. This is essentially a quantum version of optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Rocco Duvenhage

This paper introduces a method for calculating the quantum relative entropy of channels, an essential quantity in quantum channel discrimination and resource theories of quantum channels. By building on recent developments in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Gereon Koßmann , Mark M. Wilde

Pauli channels are fundamental in the context of quantum computing as they model the simplest kind of noise in quantum devices. We propose a quantum algorithm for simulating Pauli channels and extend it to encompass Pauli dynamical maps…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Tomas Basile , Carlos Pineda

We study optimal rates for quantum communication over a single use of a channel, which itself can correspond to a finite number of uses of a channel with arbitrarily correlated noise. The corresponding capacity is often referred to as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-19 Francesco Buscemi , Nilanjana Datta

We consider the process consisting of preparation, transmission through a quantum channel, and subsequent measurement of quantum states. The communication complexity of the channel is the minimal amount of classical communication required…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Alberto Montina , Stefan Wolf

We study the problem of quantum channel discrimination between two channels with an adversary input party (a.k.a. a jammer). This setup interpolates between the best-case channel discrimination as studied by (Wang & Wilde, 2019) and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Kun Fang , Michael X. Cao

Compatibility conditions of quantum channels featuring symmetry through covariance are studied. Compatibility here means the possibility of obtaining two or more channels through partial trace out of a broadcasting channel. We see that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Erkka Haapasalo

Understanding quantum channels and the strange behavior of their capacities is a key objective of quantum information theory. Here we study a remarkably simple, low-dimensional, single-parameter family of quantum channels with exotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Felix Leditzky , Debbie Leung , Vikesh Siddhu , Graeme Smith , John A. Smolin

This work presents a differentiable geometric parameterization of quantum channels in Kraus representation, which can be efficiently probed to find an unknown quantum channel. We explore its feasibility in finding the quasi inverse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Zain Ateeq , Muhammad Faryad

The computational problem of distinguishing two quantum channels is central to quantum computing. It is a generalization of the well-known satisfiability problem from classical to quantum computation. This problem is shown to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Bill Rosgen

The most important ability of a quantum channel is to preserve the quantum properties of transmitted quantum states. We experimentally demonstrate a continuous-variable system for efficient benchmarking of quantum channels. We probe the…

Incorporating sample efficiency, by requiring the number of states consumed by broadcasting does not exceed that of a naive prepare-and-distribute strategy, gives rise to the no practical quantum broadcasting theorem. To navigate this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Ximing Wang , Yunlong Xiao