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Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 Dong-Sheng Wang , Barry C. Sanders

In information theory, the channel capacity, which indicates how efficient a given channel is, plays an important role. The best-used algorithm for evaluating the channel capacity is Arimoto algorithm. This paper aims to reveal an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Shoji Toyota

The zero-error capacity of channels with a countably infinite input alphabet formally generalises Shannon's classical problem about the capacity of discrete memoryless channels. We solve the problem for three particular channels. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Gerard Cohen , Emanuela Fachini , Janos Korner

We generalize the quantum Arimoto-Blahut algorithm by Ramakrishnan et al. (IEEE Trans. IT, 67, 946 (2021)) to a function defined over a set of density matrices with linear constraints so that our algorithm can be applied to optimizations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Masahito Hayashi , Geng Liu

We consider discrete memoryless channels with input alphabet size $n$ and output alphabet size $m$, where $m=$ceil$(\gamma n)$ for some constant $\gamma>0$. The channel transition matrix consists of entries that, before being normalised,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Tobias Sutter , David Sutter , John Lygeros

This work is part of a project "Walsh Spectrum Analysis and the Cryptographic Applications". The project initiates the study of finding the largest (and/or significantly large) Walsh coefficients as well as the index positions of an unknown…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Yi Janet Lu

We consider a setting where a stream of qubits is processed sequentially. We derive fundamental limits on the rate at which classical information can be transmitted using qubits that decohere as they wait to be processed. Specifically, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Prabha Mandayam , Krishna Jagannathan , Avhishek Chatterjee

We present an optimized implementation of the Blahut-Arimoto algorithm via GPU parallelization, which we use to obtain improved upper bounds on the capacity of the binary deletion channel. In particular, our results imply that the capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Martim Pinto , João Ribeiro

Computing the classical capacity of a noisy quantum channel is crucial for understanding the limits of communication over quantum channels. However, its evaluation remains challenging due to the difficulty of computing the Holevo capacity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Chengkai Zhu , Renfeng Peng , Bin Gao , Xin Wang

We provide modular circuit-level implementations and resource estimates for several methods of block-encoding a dense $N\times N$ matrix of classical data to precision $\epsilon$; the minimal-depth method achieves a $T$-depth of…

The Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations, which describes classical plasma physics, is extremely challenging to solve, even by numerical simulation on powerful computers. By linearizing and assuming a Maxwellian background distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Alexander Engel , Graeme Smith , Scott E. Parker

We consider the scenario of classical communication over a finite-dimensional quantum channel with memory using a separable-state input ensemble and local output measurements. We propose algorithms for estimating the information rate of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Michael X. Cao , Pascal O. Vontobel

Given a quantum Markovian noise model, we study the maximum dimension of a classical or quantum system that can be stored for arbitrarily large time. We show that, unlike the fixed time setting, in the limit of infinite time, the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Omar Fawzi , Mizanur Rahaman , Mostafa Taheri

Calculating the capacity (with or without feedback) of channels with memory and continuous alphabets is a challenging task. It requires optimizing the directed information (DI) rate over all channel input distributions. The objective is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ziv Aharoni , Dor Tsur , Ziv Goldfeld , Haim Henry Permuter

We present an iterative Markov chainMonte Carlo algorithm for computingreference priors and minimax risk forgeneral parametric families. Ourapproach uses MCMC techniques based onthe Blahut-Arimoto algorithm forcomputing channel capacity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-14 John Lafferty , Larry A. Wasserman

We study the problem of computing the capacity of a discrete memoryless channel under uncertainty affecting the channel law matrix, and possibly with a constraint on the average cost of the input distribution. The problem has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Krzysztof Postek , Aharon Ben-Tal

The problem of computing $\alpha$-capacity for $\alpha>1$ is equivalent to that of computing the correct decoding exponent. Various algorithms for computing them have been proposed, such as Arimoto and Jitsumatsu--Oohama algorithm. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Akira Kamatsuka , Koki Kazama , Takahiro Yoshida

The capacity of a classical-quantum channel (or in other words the classical capacity of a quantum channel) is considered in the most general setting, where no structural assumptions such as the stationary memoryless property are made on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Masahito Hayashi , Hiroshi Nagaoka

We propose the first algorithms with non-asymptotic convergence guarantees for computing the Petz-Augustin capacity, which generalizes the channel capacity and characterizes the optimal error exponent in classical-quantum channel coding.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chun-Neng Chu , Wei-Fu Tseng , Yen-Huan Li

We derive exact analytical expressions for the quantum capacity of a broad subclasses of generalized dephasing channels of the form $\Lambda(\rho)=(1-x)\rho + x D(\rho)$, where $D(\rho)$ represents a structured decoherence process. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Shayan Roofeh , Vahid Karimipour