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Like all of quantum information theory, quantum cryptography is traditionally based on two level quantum systems. In this letter, a new protocol for quantum key distribution based on higher dimensional systems is presented. An experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Bechmann-Pasquinucci , W. Tittel

We investigate the ultimate precision achievable in Gaussian quantum metrology. We derive general analytical expressions for the quantum Fisher information matrix and for the measurement compatibility condition, ensuring asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Rosanna Nichols , Pietro Liuzzo-Scorpo , Paul A. Knott , Gerardo Adesso

We construct general schemes for multi-partite quantum secret sharing using multi-level systems, and find that the consistent conditions for valid measurements can be summarized in two simple algebraic conditions. The scheme using the very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 I-Ching Yu , Feng-Li Lin , Ching-Yu Huang

Rotation symmetric bosonic codes are an attractive encoding for qubits into oscillator degrees of freedom, particularly in superconducting qubit experiments. While these codes can tolerate considerable loss and dephasing, they will need to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Juliette Soule , Andrew C. Doherty , Arne L. Grimsmo

We consider continuous-variable quantum key distribution with discrete-alphabet encodings. In particular, we study protocols where information is encoded in the phase of displaced coherent (or thermal) states, even though the results can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Panagiotis Papanastasiou , Stefano Pirandola

We study the privacy properties of distributed quantum sensing protocols in a Gaussian quantum network, where each node encodes a parameter via a local phase shift. We first show that perfect privacy and optimal precision are jointly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Uesli Alushi , Roberto Di Candia

The coupon collector is a prototypical model for evaluating the number of samples for identifying a set. By superposing all elements in the set as a pure quantum state, a quantum version of the coupon collector aims to learn the state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Jing-Peng Zhang , Min-Quan He , Dan-Bo Zhang

We present one-shot compression protocols that optimally encode ensembles of $N$ identically prepared mixed states into $O(\log N)$ qubits. In contrast to the case of pure-state ensembles, we find that the number of encoding qubits drops…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Yuxiang Yang , Giulio Chiribella , Daniel Ebler

We propose schemes for the unconditional preparation of a two-mode squeezed state of effective bosonic modes realized in a pair of atomic ensembles interacting collectively with optical cavity and laser fields. The scheme uses Raman…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. S. Parkins , E. Solano , J. I. Cirac

How to efficiently share secrets among multiple participants is a very important problem in key management. In this paper, we propose a multi-secret sharing scheme based on the GHZ state. First, the distributor uses monotone span program to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Shuangshuang Luo , Zhihui Li , Depeng Meng , Jiansheng Guo

We improve Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) circuits by integrating the unitary averaging (UA) protocol, previously demonstrated to protect unknown Gaussian states from phase errors [Phys. Rev. A 110, 032622]. Our work extends the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 S. Nibedita Swain , Ryan J. Marshman , Alexander S. Solntsev , Timothy C. Ralph

Multimode squeezed states of light have been proposed as a resource for achieving quantum advantage in computing and sensing. Recent experiments that demonstrate multimode Gaussian states to this end have most commonly opted for spatial or…

We present a scheme to conditionally engineer an optical quantum system via continuous-variable measurements. This scheme yields high-fidelity squeezed single photon and superposition of coherent states, from input single and two photon…

Sampling from a quantum distribution can be exponentially hard for classical computers and yet could be performed efficiently by a noisy intermediate-scale quantum device. A prime example of a distribution that is hard to sample is given by…

We present control schemes for open quantum systems that combine decoupling and universal control methods with coding procedures. By exploiting a general algebraic approach, we show how appropriate encodings of quantum states result in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Lorenza Viola , Emanuel Knill , Seth Lloyd

In a realistic situation, the secret sharing of classical or quantum information will involve the transmission of this information through noisy channels. We consider a three qubit pure state. This state becomes a mixed-state when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Satyabrata Adhikari , Indranil Chakrabarty , Pankaj Agrawal

The boson sampling problem has brought a lot of attention in the quantum information field because it is not efficiently solvable with a classical computer; nonetheless it can be implemented with linear optical interferometers with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Vincenzo Tamma

These two accompanying papers treat two mode entanglement for systems of identical massive bosons and the relationship to spin squeezing and other quantum correlation effects. Entanglement is a key quantum feature of composite systems where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-07 Bryan Dalton , John Goold , Barry Garraway , Margaret Reid

Using quantum systems as sensors or probes has been shown to greatly improve the precision of parameter estimation by exploiting unique quantum features such as entanglement. A major task in quantum sensing is to design the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Jessica Bavaresco , Patryk Lipka-Bartosik , Pavel Sekatski , Mohammad Mehboudi

In quantum communications, quantum states are employed for the transmission of information between remote parties. This usually requires sharing knowledge of the measurement bases through a classical public channel in the sifting phase of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Raffaele Santagati , Alasdair B. Price , John G. Rarity , Marco Leonetti