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Which quantum phenomena are advantageous for information processing tasks? By classifying quantum states as resourceful versus non-resourceful, or free, the mathematical formalism of quantum resource theories helps to address such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Leah Turner , Madalin Guta , Gerardo Adesso

We determine the minimum Wehrl entropy among the quantum states with a given von Neumann entropy, and prove that it is achieved by thermal Gaussian states. This result determines the relation between the von Neumann and the Wehrl entropies.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Giacomo De Palma

We study the degradability of fermionic Gaussian channels. Fermionic quantum channels are a central building block of quantum information processing with fermions, and the family of Gaussian channels, in particular, is relevant in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Eliška Greplová , Géza Giedke

Sending quantum information reliably over long distances is a central challenge in quantum technology in general, and in quantum optics in particular, since most quantum communication relies on optical fibres or free-space links. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Tobias Rippchen , Ludovico Lami , Gerardo Adesso , Mario Berta

We tighten the Entropy Power Inequality (EPI) when one of the random summands is Gaussian. Our strengthening is closely connected to the concept of strong data processing for Gaussian channels and generalizes the (vector extension of)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Thomas A. Courtade

The most natural way to describe an information-carrying system containing a specific noise is an additive white Gaussian-noise (AWGN) channel. In bosonic quantum systems (especially the Gaussian case), although the classical information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Kabgyun Jeong , Hun Hee Lee , Youngrong Lim

Gaussian states, operations, and measurements are central building blocks for continuous-variable quantum information processing which paves the way for abundant applications, especially including network-based quantum computation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Mengzhen Zhang

We study a simple-harmonic-oscillator quantum computer solving oracle decision problems. We show that such computers can perform better by using nonorthogonal Gaussian wave functions rather than orthogonal top-hat wave functions as input to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-14 Mark Adcock , Peter Hoyer , Barry C. Sanders

We prove that Gaussian thermal input states minimize the output von Neumann entropy of the one-mode Gaussian quantum-limited attenuator for fixed input entropy. The Gaussian quantum-limited attenuator models the attenuation of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Giacomo De Palma , Dario Trevisan , Vittorio Giovannetti

The study of Gaussian states has arisen to a privileged position in continuous variable quantum information in recent years. This is due to vehemently pursued experimental realisations and a magnificently elegant mathematical framework. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 Gerardo Adesso , Sammy Ragy , Antony R. Lee

In the present paper we give proof that the information-transmission capacity of the approximate position measurement with the oscillator energy constraint, which underlies noisy Gaussian homodyning in quantum optics, is attained on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-18 A. S. Holevo

Quantum communication theory focuses on the study of quantum channels for transmitting quantum information, where the transmission rate is measured by quantum channel capacity. This quantity exhibits several intriguing properties, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Changchun Zhong

In this paper, we establish the connections of the fundamental limitations in feedback communication, estimation, and feedback control over Gaussian channels, from a unifying perspective for information, estimation, and control. The optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-05 Jialing Liu , Nicola Elia

The quantum capacity captures the value of a quantum channel for transmitting quantum information, establishing the fundamental limits on quantum communication. In spite of its central role in quantum information theory, the quantum…

Recently, the Gaussian optimizer conjecture in quantum information theory was confirmed for bosonic Gaussian gauge-covariant or contravariant channels. These results use the i.i.d. model of the quantum noise. In this paper we consider…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 A. S. Holevo

In this paper, we revisit the problem of finding the average capacity of the Gaussian feedback channel. First, we consider the problem of finding the average capacity of the analog Gaussian noise channel where the noise has an arbitrary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Ather Gattami

Quantum amplifier channels are at the core of several physical processes. Not only do they model the optical process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion, but the transformation corresponding to an amplifier channel also describes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-02 Haoyu Qi , Mark M. Wilde

A simple criterion for local equality between the constrained Holevo capacity and the quantum mutual information of a quantum channel is obtained. It implies that the set of all states for which this equality holds is determined by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 M. E. Shirokov

Quantum mechanical systems exhibit an inherently probabilistic nature upon measurement. Using a quantum noise model to describe the stochastic evolution of the open quantum system and working in parallel with classical indeterministic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. C. Edwards , V. P. Belavkin

In this paper we are interested to model quantum signal by statistical signal processing methods. The Gaussian distribution has been considered for the input quantum signal as Gaussian state have been proven to a type of important robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Mouli Chakraborty , Harun Siljak , Indrakshi Dey , Nicola Marchetti