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We derive fundamental lower bounds on the performance of optical metrology and communication systems in a Bayesian framework. The derivation uses classical rate-distortion theory in conjunction with bounds on the capacity to transmit…

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Quantum memories are a crucial precondition in many protocols for processing quantum information. A fundamental problem that illustrates this statement is given by the task of channel discrimination, in which an unknown channel drawn from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Ties-A. Ohst , Shijun Zhang , Hai Chau Nguyen , Martin Plávala , Marco Túlio Quintino

We introduce and apply Hilbert's projective metric in the context of quantum information theory. The metric is induced by convex cones such as the sets of positive, separable or PPT operators. It provides bounds on measures for statistical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-16 David Reeb , Michael J. Kastoryano , Michael M. Wolf

Quantum metrology concerns estimating a parameter from multiple identical uses of a quantum channel. We extend quantum metrology beyond this standard setting and consider estimation of a physical process with quantum memory, here referred…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Yuxiang Yang

We propose a method to detect lower bounds to quantum capacities of a noisy quantum communication channel by means of few measurements. The method is easily implementable and does not require any knowledge about the channel. We test its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 Chiara Macchiavello , Massimiliano F. Sacchi

The efficiency of parameter estimation of quantum channels is studied in this paper. We introduce the concept of programmable parameters to the theory of estimation. It is found that programmable parameters obey the standard quantum limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-17 Zhengfeng Ji , Guoming Wang , Runyao Duan , Yuan Feng , Mingsheng Ying

We propose a scheme for translating metrological precision bounds into lower bounds on query complexity of quantum search algorithms. Within the scheme the link between quadratic performance enhancement in idealized quantum metrological and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski , Marcin Markiewicz

We derive an asymptotic lower bound on the Bayes risk when N identical quantum systems whose state depends on a vector of unknown parameters are jointly measured in an arbitrary way and the parameters of interest estimated on the basis of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Richard D. Gill

We introduce quantum parameter estimation with the encoding being via a quantum measurement. We quantify the precision for estimating parameters characterizing a general two-outcome qubit measurement, considering two cases: when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Shuva Mondal , Priya Ghosh , Ujjwal Sen

The uncertainty principle sets limit on our ability to predict the values of two incompatible observables measured on a quantum particle simultaneously. This principle can be stated in various forms. In quantum information theory, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-27 H. Dolatkhah , S. Haseli , S. Salimi , S. A. Khorashad

We propose upper and lower bounds on the maximum success probability for discriminating given quantum states. The proposed upper bound is obtained from a suboptimal solution to the dual problem of the corresponding optimal state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-12 Kenji Nakahira , Tsuyoshi Sasaki Usuda , Kentaro Kato

We investigate two senders and one receiver multiparty communication scenario. Following Phys.Rev.A83, 062112 and arXiv : 2506.07699, we study multiparty communication bounded by dimension and distinguishability. We provide an explicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Ankush Pandit

The aim of the channel estimation is to estimate the parameters encoded in a quantum channel. For this aim, it is allowed to choose the input state as well as the measurement to get the outcome. Various precision bounds are known for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Masahito Hayashi , Yingkai Ouyang

A fundamental quantity of interest in Shannon theory, classical or quantum, is the optimal error exponent of a given channel W and rate R: the constant E(W,R) which governs the exponential decay of decoding error when using ever larger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Joseph M. Renes

Quantum measurements can be described by operators that assign conditional probabilities to different outcomes while also describing unavoidable physical changes to the system. Here, we point out that operators describing information gain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Hollis Williams , Holger F. Hofmann

In network communication, it is common in broadcasting scenarios for there to exist a hierarchy among receivers based on information they decode due, for example, to different physical conditions or premium subscriptions. This hierarchy may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Farzin Salek , Patrick Hayden , Masahito Hayashi

The sum of entropic uncertainties for the measurement of two non-commuting observables is not always reduced by the amount of entanglement (quantum memory) between two parties, and in certain cases may be impacted by quantum correlations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 T. Pramanik , S. Mal , A. S. Majumdar

In this work, we consider optimal state discrimination for a quantum system that interacts with an environment, i.e., states evolve under a quantum channel. We show the conditions on a quantum channel and an ensemble of states such that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Spiros Kechrimparis , Tanmay Singal , Chahan M. Kropf , Joonwoo Bae

We propose a new cryptographic protocol. It is suggested to encode information in ordinary binary form into many-qubit entangled states with the help of a quantum computer. A state of qubits (realized, e.g., with photons) is transmitted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 K. V. Bayandin , G. B. Lesovik

Quantum information decoupling is a fundamental primitive in quantum information theory, underlying various applications in quantum physics. We prove a novel one-shot decoupling theorem formulated in terms of quantum relative entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Mario Berta , Hao-Chung Cheng , Yongsheng Yao