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Optimization methods aimed at estimating the capacities of a general Gaussian channel are developed. Specifically evaluation of classical capacity as maximum of the Holevo information is pursued over all possible Gaussian encodings for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-12 Oleg V. Pilyavets , Cosmo Lupo , Stefano Mancini

The set of quantum Gaussian channels acting on one bosonic mode can be classified according to the action of the group of Gaussian unitaries. We look for bounds on the classical capacity for channels belonging to such a classification.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-03 Cosmo Lupo , Stefano Pirandola , Paolo Aniello , Stefano Mancini

We show how to compute or at least to estimate various capacity-related quantities for Bosonic Gaussian channels. Among these are the coherent information, the entanglement assisted classical capacity, the one-shot classical capacity, and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Holevo , R. F. Werner

The pretty good measurement is a fundamental analytical tool in quantum information theory, giving a method for inferring the classical label that identifies a quantum state chosen probabilistically from an ensemble. Identifying and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Hemant K. Mishra , Ludovico Lami , Prabha Mandayam , Mark M. Wilde

We present an asymptotically optimal generalized measurement for the Classical information that is retrieved from a quantum tetrahedron is intrinsically fuzzy. We present an asymptotically optimal generalized measurement for the extraction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-16 Daniel R. Terno

In this Letter we exploit the recently-solved conjecture on the bosonic minimum output entropy to show the optimality of Gaussian discord, so that the computation of quantum discord for bipartite Gaussian states can be restricted to local…

Multimode Gaussian quantum light, which includes multimode squeezed and multipartite quadrature entangled light, is a very general and powerful quantum resource with promising applications in quantum information processing and metrology. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Olivier Pinel , Julien Fade , Daniel Braun , Pu Jian , Nicolas Treps , Claude Fabre

Quantum systems in nonequilibrium conditions, where coherent many-body interactions compete with dissipative effects, can feature rich phase diagrams and emergent critical behavior. Associated collective effects, together with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Robert Mattes , Albert Cabot , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

In this paper, we present a collection of results on the observability of quantum mechanical systems, in the case the output is the result of a discrete nonselective measurement. By defining an effective observable we extend previous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. D'Alessandro , R. Romano

The connection between the non-equilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum many-body systems and statistical mechanics is a fundamental open question. It is generally believed that the unitary quantum evolution of a sufficiently complex system…

A genuine feature of projective quantum measurements is that they inevitably alter the mean energy of the observed system if the measured quantity does not commute with the Hamiltonian. Compared to the classical case, Jacobs proved that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-10 Kay Brandner , Michael Bauer , Michael T. Schmid , Udo Seifert

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

Gaussian states are of increasing interest in the estimation of physical parameters because they are easy to prepare and manipulate in experiments. In this article, we derive formulae for the optimal estimation of parameters using two- and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-16 Dominik Šafránek , Antony R. Lee , Ivette Fuentes

The central issue in quantum parameter estimation is to find out the optimal measurement setup that leads to the ultimate lower bound of an estimation error. We address here a question of whether a Gaussian measurement scheme can achieve…

Integrable quantum many-body systems are considered to equilibrate to generalized Gibbs ensembles (GGEs) characterized by the expectation values of integrals of motion. We study the dynamics of exactly solvable quadratic bosonic systems in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-15 Takaaki Monnai , Shohei Morodome , Kazuya Yuasa

Gaussian building blocks are essential for photonic quantum information processing, and universality can be practically achieved by equipping Gaussian circuits with adaptive measurement and feedforward. The number of adaptive steps then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Changhun Oh , Youngrong Lim

We provide optimal measurement schemes for estimating relative parameters of the quantum state of a pair of spin systems. We prove that the optimal measurements are joint measurements on the pair of systems, meaning that they cannot be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. Bartlett , Terry Rudolph , Robert W. Spekkens

Equilibrium properties of many-body systems with a large number of degrees of freedom are generally expected to be described by statistical mechanics. Such expectations are closely tied to the observation of thermalization, as manifested…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-08 Yulong Qiao , Frank Großmann , Peter Schlagheck , Gabriel M. Lando

Consider two bosonic modes which are prepared in one of two possible Gaussian states with the same local energy: either a tensor-product thermal state (with zero correlations) or a separable Gaussian state with maximal correlations (with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Gaetana Spedalieri , Stefano Pirandola , Samuel L. Braunstein

Conventional formulation of quantum sensing has been mostly developed in the context of local estimation, where the unknown parameter is roughly known. In contrast, global sensing, where the prior information is incomplete and the unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Matteo G. A. Paris , Abolfazl Bayat