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Entanglement properties of Gaussian states of light as well as the security of continuous variable quantum key distribution with Gaussian states in free-space fading channels are studied. These qualities are shown to be sensitive to the…

Continuous-variable Gaussian entanglement is an attractive notion, both as a fundamental concept in quantum information theory, based on the well-established Gaussian formalism for phase-space variables, and as a practical resource in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 E. Shchukin , P. van Loock

Through refined asymptotic analysis based on the normal approximation, we study how higher-order coding performance depends on the mean power as well as on finer statistics of the input power. We introduce a multifaceted power model in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Adeel Mahmood , Aaron B. Wagner

Efficient signal representation is essential for the functioning of living and artificial systems operating under resource constraints. A widely recognized framework for deriving such representations is the information bottleneck method,…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-08 Vahe Galstyan , Age Tjalma , Pieter Rein ten Wolde

In this thesis, I present several results on quantum statistical inference in the following two directions. Firstly, I demonstrate that quantum algorithms can be applied to enhance the computing and training of Gaussian processes (GPs), a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Zhikuan Zhao

Almost all modern communication systems rely on electromagnetic fields as a means of information transmission, and finding the capacities of these systems is a problem of significant practical importance. The Additive White Gaussian Noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Robert Koenig , Graeme Smith

Noise is the main obstacle for the realization of fault tolerant quantum information processing and secure communication over long distances. In this work, we propose a communication protocol relying on simple linear optics that optimally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Mikael Lassen , Adriano Berni , Lars S. Madsen , Radim Filip , Ulrik L. Andersen

Gaussian channel simulation is an essential paradigm in understanding the evolution of bosonic quantum states. It allows us to investigate how such states are influenced by the environment and how they transmit quantum information. This…

The full solution of the optimization problem giving the Gaussian capacity of the single-mode fiducial Gaussian quantum channel is provided. Since it was shown that the Gaussian capacity of an arbitrary (phase-sensitive or insensitive)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-19 Joachim Schäfer , Evgueni Karpov , Oleg V. Pilyavets , Nicolas J. Cerf

We perform a quantum information analysis for multi-mode Gaussian approximate position measurements, underlying noisy homodyning in quantum optics. The "Gaussian maximizer" property is established for the entropy reduction of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-04 A. S. Holevo , V. I. Yashin

We investigate Gaussian quantum states in view of their exceptional role within the space of all continuous variables states. A general method for deriving extremality results is provided and applied to entanglement measures, secret key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael M. Wolf , Geza Giedke , J. Ignacio Cirac

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

This paper establishes a general theory of energy-constrained quantum and private capacities of quantum channels. We begin by defining various energy-constrained communication tasks, including quantum communication with a uniform energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-22 Mark M. Wilde , Haoyu Qi

Basing on recently developed convex programming framework in the paper [arXiv:2204.10626], we provide a proof for a long-standing conjecture on optimality of Gaussian encondings for the ultimate communication rate of generalized heterodyne…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 A. S. Holevo , S. N. Filippov

The science of quantum information has arisen over the last two decades centered on the manipulation of individual quanta of information, known as quantum bits or qubits. Quantum computers, quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation are…

It is proven that Gaussian operations are of no use for protecting Gaussian states against Gaussian errors in quantum communication protocols. Specifically, we introduce a new quantity characterizing any single-mode Gaussian channel, called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-09 Julien Niset , Jaromir Fiurasek , Nicolas J. Cerf

Quantum information characteristics, such as quantum mutual information, loss, noise and coherent information are explicitly calculated for Bosonic attenuation/amplification channel with input Gaussian state. The coherent information is…

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

Gaussian quantum channels are relevant operations in continuous variable systems. In general, given an arbitrary state, the action on it is well-known provided that the quantum channels are completely characterized. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Jonas F. G. Santos , Carlos H. S. Vieira , Wilder R. Cardoso

The achievable rate of information transfer in optical communications is determined by the physical properties of the communication channel, such as the intrinsic channel noise. Bosonic phase-noise channels, a class of non-Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-08 M. T. DiMario , L. Kunz , K Banaszek , F. E. Becerra

We propose a generalization of the quantum entropy power inequality involving conditional entropies. For the special case of Gaussian states, we give a proof based on perturbation theory for symplectic spectra. We discuss some implications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Robert Koenig