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Superdense Coding is a cornerstone in secure quantum communication, exploiting pre-shared entanglement to encode two classical bits within a single qubit. However, noise and decoherence deteriorate entanglement quality, restricting both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Syed Emad Uddin Shubha , Tasnuva Farheen

In this paper, we introduce a unified framework to construct entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting codes, including additive and nonadditive codes, based on the codeword stabilized framework on subsystems. The codeword stabilized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-08 Jeonghwan Shin , Jun Heo , Todd A. Brun

Estimating quantum entropies and divergences is an important problem in quantum physics, information theory, and machine learning. Quantum neural estimators (QNEs), which utilize a hybrid classical-quantum architecture, have recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Sreejith Sreekumar , Ziv Goldfeld , Mark M. Wilde

Many current quantum error-correcting codes that achieve full fault tolerance suffer from having low ratios of logical to physical qubits and significant overhead. This makes them difficult to implement on current noisy intermediate-scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Christopher Gerhard , Todd A. Brun

We define and investigate a notion of entropy for quantum error correcting codes. The entropy of a code for a given quantum channel has a number of equivalent realisations, such as through the coefficients associated with the Knill-Laflamme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-24 David W. Kribs , Aron Pasieka , Karol Zyczkowski

Quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs) sit between noisy quantum hardware and reliable computation, so the code parameters used in practice must be trustworthy. The single number that summarizes a code's strength is its distance, yet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Mattias Ehatamm , Yi Lee , Xiaodi Wu , Runzhou Tao

A major milestone of quantum error correction is to achieve the fault-tolerance threshold beyond which quantum computers can be made arbitrarily accurate. This requires extraordinary resources and engineering efforts. We show that even…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Miroslav Urbanek , Benjamin Nachman , Wibe A. de Jong

This paper proves the threshold result, which asserts that quantum computation can be made robust against errors and inaccuracies, when the error rate, $\eta$, is smaller than a constant threshold, $\eta_c$. The result holds for a very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dorit Aharonov , Michael Ben-Or

A significant obstacle for practical quantum computation is the loss of physical qubits in quantum computers, a decoherence mechanism most notably in optical systems. Here we experimentally demonstrate, both in the quantum circuit model and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-16 Chao-Yang Lu , Wei-Bo Gao , Jin Zhang , Xiao-Qi Zhou , Tao Yang , Jian-Wei Pan

Quantum error-correcting code (QECC) is the central ingredient in fault-tolerant quantum information processing. An emerging paradigm of dynamical QECC shows that one can robustly encode logical quantum information both temporally and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Andrew Tanggara , Mile Gu , Kishor Bharti

We report two analytical bounds for quantum error-correcting codes that do not have preexisting classical counterparts. Firstly the quantum Hamming and Singleton bounds are combined into a single tighter bound, and then the combined bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-27 Sixia Yu , C. H. Lai , C. H. Oh

It is commonly believed that logical states of quantum error-correcting codes have to be highly entangled such that codes capable of correcting more errors require more entanglement to encode a qubit. Here, we show that the validity of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Sergey Bravyi , Dongjin Lee , Zhi Li , Beni Yoshida

In this work, we propose a soft covering problem for fully quantum channels using relative entropy as a criterion for operator closeness. We establish covering lemmas by deriving one-shot bounds on the achievable rates in terms of smooth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xingyi He , S. Sandeep Pradhan

We investigate the randomized and quantum communication complexities of the well-studied Equality function with small error probability $\epsilon$, getting optimal constant factors in the leading terms in a number of different models. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 Olivier Lalonde , Nikhil S. Mande , Ronald de Wolf

The entanglement-assisted (EA) formalism allows arbitrary classical linear codes to transform into entanglement-assisted quantum error correcting codes (EAQECCs) by using pre-shared entanglement between the sender and the receiver. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Liangdong Lu , Wenping Ma , Ruihu Li , Yuena Ma , Yang Liu , Hao Cao

Linear programming approaches have been applied to derive upper bounds on the size of classical codes and quantum codes. In this paper, we derive similar results for general quantum codes with entanglement assistance, including nonadditive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Ching-Yi Lai , Alexei Ashikhmin

The theory of quantum error correction was established more than a decade ago as the primary tool for fighting decoherence in quantum information processing. Although great progress has already been made in this field, limited methods are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Zhuo Wang , Kai Sun , Hen Fan , Vlatko Vedral

It is reasonable to expect the theory of quantum codes to be simplified in the case of codes of minimum distance 2; thus, it makes sense to examine such codes in the hopes that techniques that prove effective there will generalize. With…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric M. Rains

Two generalizations of the Hartmann--Tzeng (HT) bound on the minimum distance of q-ary cyclic codes are proposed. The first one is proven by embedding the given cyclic code into a cyclic product code. Furthermore, we show that unique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-28 Alexander Zeh , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Maximilien Gadouleau , Sergey Bezzateev

In this paper we present a new proof technique for semi-quantum key distribution protocols which makes use of a quantum entropic uncertainty relation to bound an adversary's information. Our new technique provides a more optimistic key-rate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 Walter O. Krawec