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We explore the thermodynamics of quantum processes (quantum channels) by axiomatically introducing the free energy for channels, defined via the quantum relative entropy with an absolutely thermal channel whose fixed output is in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Himanshu Badhani , Dhanuja G. S. , Siddhartha Das

The most general quantum object that can be shared between two distant parties is a bipartite channel, as it is the basic element to construct all quantum circuits. In general, bipartite channels can produce entangled states, and can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 Gilad Gour , Carlo Maria Scandolo

We investigate an original family of quantum distinguishability problems, where the goal is to perfectly distinguish between $M$ quantum states that become identical under a completely decohering map. Similarly, we study distinguishability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Kamil Korzekwa , Stanisław Czachórski , Zbigniew Puchała , Karol Życzkowski

Quantum resource theories have been widely studied to systematically characterize the non-classicality of quantum systems. Most resource theories focus on quantum states and study their interconversions. Although quantum channels are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Yunchao Liu , Xiao Yuan

A collection of quantum channels is called incompatible if they cannot be obtained as marginals from a single channel. No-cloning theorem is the most prominent instance of incompatibility of quantum channels. We show that every collection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Junki Mori

In this work, we study two different approaches to defining the entropy of a quantum channel. One of these is based on the von Neumann entropy of the corresponding Choi-Jamio{\l}kowski state. The second one is based on the relative entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-17 Dariusz Kurzyk , Łukasz Pawela , Zbigniew Puchała

We prove the quantum conditional Entropy Power Inequality for quantum additive noise channels. This inequality lower bounds the quantum conditional entropy of the output of an additive noise channel in terms of the quantum conditional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Giacomo De Palma , Stefan Huber

The thermal state plays a number of significant roles throughout physics, information theory, quantum computing, and machine learning. It arises from Jaynes' maximum-entropy principle as the maximally entropic state subject to linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Philippe Faist , Sumeet Khatri

The operational structure of quantum couplings and entanglements is studied and classified for semifinite von Neumann algebras. We show that the classical-quantum correspondences such as quantum encodings can be treated as diagonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. P. Belavkin , M. Ohya

The quantum channel decomposition techniques, which contain the so-called probabilistic error cancellation and gate/wire cutting, are powerful approach for simulating a hard-to-implement (or an ideal) unitary operation by concurrently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-30 Ryo Nagai , Shu Kanno , Yuki Sato , Naoki Yamamoto

Unambiguous unitary maps and unambiguous unitary quantum channels are introduced and some of their properties are derived. These properties ensure certain simple form for the measurements involved in realizing an unambiguous unitary quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-14 Shengjun Wu , Xuemei Chen

Quantum channels can represent dynamic resources, which are indispensable elements in many physical scenarios. To describe certain facets of nonclassicality of the channels, it is necessary to quantify their properties. In the framework of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Huaqi Zhou , Ting Gao , Fengli Yan

Coherent superposition is a key feature of quantum mechanics that underlies the advantage of quantum technologies over their classical counterparts. Recently, coherence has been recast as a resource theory in an attempt to identify and…

This article provides an elementary introduction to Gaussian channels and their capacities. We review results on the classical, quantum, and entanglement assisted capacities and discuss related entropic quantities as well as additivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-15 J. Eisert , M. M. Wolf

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 communication theory focuses on the study of quantum channels for transmitting quantum information, where the transmission rate is measured by quantum channel capacity. This quantity exhibits several intriguing properties, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Changchun Zhong

Based on the resource theory for quantifying the coherence of quantum channels, we introduce a new coherence quantifier for quantum channels via maximum relative entropy. We prove that the maximum relative entropy for coherence of quantum…

We offer new methods for characterizing general closed and convex quantum resource theories, including dynamic ones, based on entropic concepts and operational tasks. We propose a resource-theoretic generalization of the quantum conditional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Kaiyuan Ji , Eric Chitambar

This paper develops the resource theory of asymmetric distinguishability for quantum channels, generalizing the related resource theory for states [arXiv:1010.1030; arXiv:1905.11629]. The key constituents of the channel resource theory are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Xin Wang , Mark M. Wilde

We provide a method for witnessing nonseparability of quantum processes on shared systems, which uses the channel-state duality. The method uses a maximally entangled state as a resource. We show that using the resource provides significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Sohail , Ujjwal Sen