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This paper introduces a method for calculating the quantum relative entropy of channels, an essential quantity in quantum channel discrimination and resource theories of quantum channels. By building on recent developments in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Gereon Koßmann , Mark M. Wilde

We propose nearly-optimal control strategies for changing states of a quantum system. We argue that quantum control optimization can be studied analytically within some protocol families that depend on a small set of parameters for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Chen Sun , Avadh Saxena , Nikolai A. Sinitsyn

The problem of optimal switching between nonlinear autonomous subsystems is investigated in this study where the objective is not only bringing the states to close to the desired point, but also adjusting the switching pattern, in the sense…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-11-19 Ali Heydari

Optimal transport is the problem of designing a joint distribution for two random variables with fixed marginals. In virtually the entire literature on this topic, the objective is to minimize expected cost. This paper is the first to study…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-02-13 Yinchu Zhu , Ilya O. Ryzhov

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

Quantum networks rely on the efficient distribution of entanglement to enable long-distance quantum communication and information processing. A key challenge in these networks is the design of routing protocols capable of maintaining high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Javier Vecino Peñas , Ana Fernández-Vilas , Rebeca P. Díaz-Redondo , Sergio Gándara Gándara , Manuel Fernández-Veiga

The rate and security of quantum communications between users placed at arbitrary points of a quantum communication network depend on the structure of the network, on its extension and on the nature of the communication channels. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Lorenzo Cirigliano , Valentina Brosco , Claudio Castellano , Claudio Conti , Laura Pilozzi

We consider quantum channels with one sender and two receivers, used in several different ways for the simultaneous transmission of independent messages. We begin by extending the technique of superposition coding to quantum channels with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-25 Jon Yard , Patrick Hayden , Igor Devetak

We study the quality of service in quantum channels. We regard the quantum channel as a queueing system, and present queueing analysis of both the classical information transmission and quantum information transmission in the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-13 Fengyou Sun

In this paper, we present a general numerical framework for both deterministic and probabilistic quantum state transformations, under locality constraints. For a given arbitrary bipartite initial state and a desired bipartite target state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Sasan Sarbishegi , Maryam Sadat Mirkamali

The traditional perspective in quantum resource theories concerns how to use free operations to convert one resourceful quantum state to another one. For example, a fundamental and well known question in entanglement theory is to determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Stefan Bäuml , Siddhartha Das , Xin Wang , Mark M. Wilde

This is a comment on a recent publication claiming to have found a ``quantum optimization'' algorithm which outperforms known algorithms for minimizing some ``cost function''. Unfortunately, this algorithm is no better than choosing a state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Christof Zalka , Todd A. Brun

We develop an adaptive method for quantum state preparation that utilizes randomness as an essential component and that does not require classical optimization. Instead, a cost function is minimized to prepare a desired quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Alicia B. Magann , Sophia E. Economou , Christian Arenz

Remote state preparation is the variant of quantum state teleportation in which the sender knows the quantum state to be communicated. The original paper introducing teleportation established minimal requirements for classical communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles H. Bennett , Patrick Hayden , Debbie W. Leung , Peter W. Shor , Andreas Winter

Quantum annealing is a computational paradigm in which optimisation problems are mapped onto the energy landscape of an interacting quantum system and explored through its dynamical evolution. By continuously transforming a simple initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Steven Abel , Andrei Constantin , Luca A. Nutricati

Discrete combinatorial optimization consists in finding the optimal configuration that minimizes a given discrete objective function. An interpretation of such a function as the energy of a classical system allows us to reduce the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Sergio Boixo , Gerardo Ortiz , Rolando Somma

We derive a formula for the time-energy costs of general quantum channels proposed in [Phys. Rev. A 88, 012307 (2013)]. This formula allows us to numerically find the time-energy cost of any quantum channel using positive semidefinite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Chi-Hang Fred Fung , H. F. Chau , Chi-Kwong Li , Nung-Sing Sze

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

A computational problem fed into a gate-model quantum computer identifies an objective function with a particular computational pathway (objective function connectivity). The solution of the computational problem involves identifying a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-12 Laszlo Gyongyosi

Satellite mission planning for Earth observation satellites is a combinatorial optimization problem that consists of selecting the optimal subset of imaging requests, subject to constraints, to be fulfilled during an orbit pass of a…