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The quantum version of a fundamental entropic data-processing inequality is presented. It establishes a lower bound for the entropy that can be generated in the output channels of a scattering process, which involves a collection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-30 Giacomo De Palma , Andrea Mari , Seth Lloyd , Vittorio Giovannetti

We study data processing inequalities that are derived from a certain class of generalized information measures, where a series of convex functions and multiplicative likelihood ratios are nested alternately. While these information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-27 Neri Merhav

The information spectrum approach gives general formulae for optimal rates of various information theoretic protocols, under minimal assumptions on the nature of the sources, channels and entanglement resources involved. This paper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Garry Bowen , Nilanjana Datta

Quantum processes can exhibit scenarios beyond a fixed order of events. We propose information inequalities that, when violated, constitute sufficient conditions to certify quantum processes without a fixed causal order -- causally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Matheus Capela , Kaumudibikash Goswami

Quantitative analysis of discontinuity of basic characteristics of quantum states and channels is presented. First we consider general estimates for discontinuity jump (loss) of the von Neumann entropy for a given converging sequence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 M. E. Shirokov

The emerging field of quantum machine learning has the potential of revolutionizing our perspectives of quantum computing and artificial intelligence. In the predominantly empirical realm of quantum machine learning, a theoretical void…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Zhou Shangnan

Quantum channel capacities are fundamental to quantum information theory. Their definition, however, does not limit the computational resources of sender and receiver. In this work, we initiate the study of computational quantum capacities.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Johannes Jakob Meyer , Jacopo Rizzo , Asad Raza , Lorenzo Leone , Sofiene Jerbi , Jens Eisert

Through refined asymptotic analysis based on the normal approximation, we study how higher-order coding performance depends on the mean power as well as on finer statistics of the input power. We introduce a multifaceted power model in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Adeel Mahmood , Aaron B. Wagner

Capacities of quantum channels are fundamental quantities in the theory of quantum information. A desirable property is the additivity for a capacity. However, this cannot be achieved for a few quantities that have been established as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 D. -S. Wang

A central problem in quantum resource theory is to give operational meaning to quantum resources that can provide clear advantages in certain physical tasks compared to the convex set of resource-free states. We propose to extend this basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Sunho Kim , Chunhe Xiong , Junde Wu

Quantum capacity quantifies the amount of quantum information that can be transmitted by a quantum channel with an arbitrary small probability of error. Mathematically, the quantum capacity is given by an asymptotic formula involving the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Zhen Wu , Zhihao Ma , James Fullwood

The group symmetries inherent in quantum channels often make them tractable and applicable to various problems in quantum information theory. In this paper, we introduce natural probability distributions for covariant quantum channels.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Ion Nechita , Sang-Jun Park

The quantum capacity of a memoryless channel is often used as a single figure of merit to characterize its ability to transmit quantum information coherently. The capacity determines the maximal rate at which we can code reliably over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Marco Tomamichel , Mario Berta , Joseph M. Renes

Discrimination between objects, in particular quantum states, is one of the most fundamental tasks in (quantum) information theory. Recent years have seen significant progress towards extending the framework to point-to-point quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Christoph Hirche

The quantum capacity of a noisy quantum channel determines the maximal rate at which we can code reliably over asymptotically many uses of the channel, and it characterizes the channel's ultimate ability to transmit quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Xin Wang

Quantum Gaussian channels play a key role in quantum information theory. In particular, the attenuation and amplification channels are useful to describe noise and decoherence effects on continuous variables systems. They are directly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Jonas F. G. Santos , C. H. S. Vieira

Quantum mechanics allows for situations where the relative order between two processes is entangled with a quantum degree of freedom. Here we show that such entanglement can enhance the ability to transmit quantum information over noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-20 Sina Salek , Daniel Ebler , Giulio Chiribella

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

We propose a general method to operationally quantify the resourcefulness of quantum channels via channel discrimination, an important information processing task. A main result is that the maximum success probability of distinguishing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Lu Li , Kaifeng Bu , Zi-Wen Liu

Noisy quantum channels may be used in many information carrying applications. We show that different applications may result in different channel capacities. Upper bounds on several of these capacities are proved. These bounds are based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Howard Barnum , M. A. Nielsen , Benjamin Schumacher