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Quantum coherence is one of the most basic characteristics of quantum mechanics. Here we give some methods to detect and measure quantum coherence. Firstly, we propose a coherence criterion without full quantum state tomography based on…

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This paper presents a systematic study of adversarial hypothesis testing for both quantum-quantum (QQ) and classical-quantum (CQ) channels. Unlike conventional channel discrimination, we consider a framework where the sender, Alice, selects…

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Quantum channel discrimination is a fundamental task in quantum information processing. In the one-shot regime, discrimination between two candidate channels is characterized by the diamond norm. Beyond this basic setting, however, many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Chengkai Zhu , Shuyu He , Gereon Koßmann , Xin Wang

Determining whether a noisy quantum channel can be used to reliably transmit quantum information at a non-zero rate is a challenging problem in quantum information theory. This is because it requires computation of the channel's coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Satvik Singh , Nilanjana Datta

Quantum channel discrimination has been studied from an information-theoretic perspective, wherein one is interested in the optimal decay rate of error probabilities as a function of the number of unknown channel accesses. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Theshani Nuradha , Mark M. Wilde

We investigate the advantage of coherent superposition of two different coded channels in quantum metrology. In a continuous variable system, we show that the Heisenberg limit $1/N$ can be beaten by the coherent superposition without the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu , An Min Wang

The security of a cryptographic key that is generated by communication through a noisy quantum channel relies on the ability to distill a shorter secure key sequence from a longer insecure one. We show that -- for protocols that use quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Dagomir Kaszlikowski , Jenn Yang Lim , Leong Chuang Kwek , Berthold-Georg Englert

We present a method to detect properties of quantum channels, assuming that some a priori information about the form of the channel is available. The method is based on a correspondence with entanglement detection methods for multipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 C. Macchiavello , M. Rossi

Quantum addition channels have been recently introduced in the context of deriving entropic power inequalities for finite dimensional quantum systems. We prove a reverse entropy power equality which can be used to analytically prove an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Arun Kumar Pati , Sk Sazim

The problem of discriminating between many quantum channels with certainty is analyzed under the assumption of prior knowledge of algebraic relations among possible channels. It is shown, by explicit construction of a novel family of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Zane M. Rossi , Isaac L. Chuang

Ensuring the non-entanglement-breaking (non-EB) property of quantum channels is crucial for the effective distribution and storage of quantum states. However, a practical method for direct and accurate certification of the non-EB feature is…

We introduce measures of quantum coherence as the speed of evolution of a system under decoherence. That is, coherence is the ability to estimate a dephasing channel, quantified by the quantum Fisher information. We extend the analysis to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Benjamin Yadin , Pieter Bogaert , Cristian E. Susa , Davide Girolami

Quantum coherence plays a crucial role in manipulating and controlling quantum systems, leading to breakthroughs in various fields such as quantum information, quantum sensing, and the detection of gravitational waves. Most coherence…

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Bell inequality violation is a quantitative measurement tool for quantum entanglement. Quantum entanglement is the heart of quantum information science, in which the resulting nonlocal correlation between remotely separated photons shows a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-08 Byoung S. Ham

Quantum coherence and quantum entanglement are two different manifestations of the superposition principle. In this article we show that the right choice of basis to be used to estimate coherence is the separable basis. The quantum…

Quantum state discrimination is a fundamental concept in quantum information theory, which refers to a class of techniques to identify a specific quantum state through a positive operator-valued measure. In this work, we investigate how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Hyunho Cha , Jungwoo Lee

Incompatibility of quantum devices is one of the cornerstones of quantum theory, and the incompatibility of quantum measurements and channels has been linked to quantum advantage in certain information theoretic tasks. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Arindam Mitra , Máté Farkas

We study the possibility of discriminating between two bosonic dephasing quantum channels. We show that unambiguous discrimination is not realizable. We then consider discrimination with nonzero error probability and minimize this latter in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Samad Khabbazi Oskouei , Laleh Memarzadeh , Milajiguli Rexiti , Stefano Mancini

Discriminating between quantum states is a fundamental problem in quantum information protocols. The optimum approach saturates the Helstrom bound, which quantifies the unavoidable error probability of mistaking one state for another.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Shannon Ray , James Schneeloch , Christopher C. Tison , Paul M. Alsing

In this paper, we address the problem of discriminating two given quantum operations. Firstly, based on the Bloch representation of single qubit systems, we give the exact minimum error probability of discriminating two single qubit quantum…

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