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Quantum communication relies on the existence of high quality quantum channels to exchange information. In practice, however, all communication links are affected by noise from the environment. Here we investigate the ability of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Vishal Singh , Mark M. Wilde

Quantum states that can yield work in a cyclical Hamiltonian process form one of the primary resources in the context of quantum thermodynamics. Conversely, states whose average energy cannot be lowered by unitary transformations are called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Eric G. Brown , Nicolai Friis , Marcus Huber

We present a theory of entanglement transformations of Gaussian pure states with local Gaussian operations and classical communication. This is the experimentally accessible set of operations that can be realized with optical elements such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Giedke , J. Eisert , J. I. Cirac , M. B. Plenio

We investigate the fundamental limits of entanglement generation under bipartite Hamiltonian dynamics when only finite physical resources-specifically, bounded energy variance-are available. Using the relative entropy of entanglement, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Moein Naseri

In continuous-variable systems, non-Gaussian resources are essential for achieving universal quantum computation that lies beyond classical simulation. Among the candidate states, the cubic phase state stands out as the simplest form of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Boxuan Jing , Feng-Xiao Sun , Qiongyi He

We derive two lower bounds on entanglement of formation for arbitrary mixed Gaussian states by two distinct methods. To achieve the first one we use a local measurement procedure derived by Giedke et al [Quantum Inf. and Comp. vol.1, 79…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 G. Rigolin , C. O. Escobar

The study of thermal operations allows one to investigate the ultimate possibilities of quantum states and of nanoscale thermal machines. Whilst fairly general, these results typically do not apply to continuous variable systems and do not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 A. Serafini , M. Lostaglio , S. Longden , U. Shackerley-Bennett , C. -Y. Hsieh , G. Adesso

Quantum information processing relies on a variety of resources, including entanglement, coherence, non-Gaussianity, and magic. In realistic settings, protocols run on networks of parties with heterogeneous local resource constraints, so…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Ray Ganardi , Jeongrak Son , Jakub Czartowski , Seok Hyung Lie , Nelly H. Y. Ng

When a quantum system is distributed to spatially separated parties, it is natural to consider how the system evolves when the parties perform local quantum operations with classical communication (LOCC). However, the structure of LOCC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-07 Eric Chitambar , Julio I. de Vicente , Mark W. Girard , Gilad Gour

This paper presents novel Gaussian process decentralized data fusion algorithms exploiting the notion of agent-centric support sets for distributed cooperative perception of large-scale environmental phenomena. To overcome the limitations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-17 Ruofei Ouyang , Kian Hsiang Low

A phase reference has been a standard requirement in continuous-variable quantum sensing and communication protocols. However, maintaining a phase reference is challenging due to environmental fluctuations, preventing quantum phenomena such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Quntao Zhuang

The use of ancillary quantum systems known as catalysts is known to be able to enhance the capabilities of entanglement transformations under local operations and classical communication. However, the limits of these advantages have not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Ludovico Lami , Bartosz Regula , Alexander Streltsov

Many different quantum information communication protocols such as teleportation, dense coding and entanglement based quantum key distribution are based on the faithful transmission of entanglement between distant location in an optical…

We find that the asymptotic entanglement of assistance of a general bipartite mixed state is equal to the smaller of its two local entropies. Our protocol gives rise to the asymptotically optimal EPR pair distillation procedure for a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John A. Smolin , Frank Verstraete , Andreas Winter

Shared entanglement is a resource available to parties communicating over a quantum channel, much akin to public coins in classical communication protocols. Whereas shared randomness does not help in the transmission of information, or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Ashwin Nayak , Julia Salzman

The information capacities and ``distillability'' of a quantum channel are studied in the presence of auxiliary resources. These include prior entanglement shared between the sender and receiver and free classical bits of forward and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vittorio Giovannetti

Entanglement and entanglement-assisted are useful resources to enhance the mutual information of the Pauli channels, when the noise on consecutive uses of the channel has some partial correlations. In this paper, We study quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Fahmi

The ability to perform computations on encrypted data is a powerful tool for protecting a client's privacy, especially in today's era of cloud and distributed computing. In terms of privacy, the best solutions that classical techniques can…

A new paradigm for distributed quantum systems where information is a valuable resource is developed. After finding a unique measure for information, we construct a scheme for it's manipulation in analogy with entanglement theory. In this…

Entanglement is a key resource for many quantum applications. Understanding fundamental properties of entangled states is an important step towards their practical exploitation. We characterize entanglement in the context of Gaussian and…