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Non-unitary protocols are already at the base of many hybrid quantum computing applications, especially in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era where quantum errors typically affect the unitary evolution. However, while the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Giuseppe Clemente , Kevin Zambello

Effective resource allocation in sensor networks, IoT systems, and distributed computing is essential for applications such as environmental monitoring, surveillance, and smart infrastructure. Sensors or agents must optimize their resource…

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We determine a fundamental upper bound on the performance of any adaptive protocol for discrimination or estimation of a channel which has an unknown parameter encoded in the state of its environment. Since our approach relies on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Masahiro Takeoka , Mark M. Wilde

In this work, we show that the sample complexity required in quantum learning theory within a general parametric framework, is fundamentally governed by the inverse Fisher information matrix. More specifically, we derive upper and lower…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Hyukgun Kwon , Seok Hyung Lie , Liang Jiang

We consider the problem of modulation and estimation of a random parameter $U$ to be conveyed across a discrete memoryless channel. Upper and lower bounds are derived for the best achievable exponential decay rate of a general moment of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Neri Merhav

Measurement and estimation of parameters are essential for science and engineering, where one of the main quests is to find systematic schemes that can achieve high precision. While conventional schemes for quantum parameter estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-29 Han Xu , Junning Li , Liqiang Liu , Yu Wang , Haidong Yuan , Xin Wang

The derivation of ultimate limits to communication over certain quantum repeater networks have provided extremely valuable benchmarks for assessing near-term quantum communication protocols. However, these bounds are usually derived in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 Riccardo Laurenza , Nathan Walk , Jens Eisert , Stefano Pirandola

Quantum metrology enhances the sensitivity of parameter estimation using the distinctive resources of quantum mechanics such as entanglement. It has been shown that the precision of estimating an overall multiplicative factor of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-31 Shengshi Pang , Todd A. Brun

This paper presents an algorithm for iterative joint channel parameter (carrier phase, Doppler shift and Doppler rate) estimation and decoding of transmission over channels affected by Doppler shift and Doppler rate using a distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Ahsan Waqas , Khoa Nguyen , Gottfried Lechner , Terence Chan

One-bit quantization has garnered significant attention in recent years for various signal processing and communication applications. Estimating model parameters from one bit quantized data can be challenging, particularly when the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Nadav E. Rosenthal , Joseph Tabrikian

While quantum weight enumerators establish some of the best upper bounds on the minimum distance of quantum error-correcting codes, these bounds are not optimized to quantify the performance of quantum codes under the effect of arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Yingkai Ouyang , Ching-Yi Lai

Quantum-enhanced sensing promises to improve the performance of sensing tasks using non-classical probes and measurements that require far fewer scene-modulated photons than the best classical schemes, thereby granting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Michael R. Grace , Christos N. Gagatsos , Saikat Guha

We propose a statistical framework for the problem of parameter estimation from a noisy optomechanical system. The Cram\'er-Rao lower bound on the estimation errors in the long-time limit is derived and compared with the errors of…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-31 Shan Zheng Ang , Glen I. Harris , Warwick P. Bowen , Mankei Tsang

Accurate quantum channel parameter estimation is essential for effective information reconciliation in continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD). However, conventional maximum likelihood (ML) estimators rely on a large amount of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Jisheng Dai , Xue-Qin Jiang , Peng Huang , Tao Wang , Guihua Zeng

Quantum Metrology calculates the ultimate precision of all estimation strategies, measuring what is their root mean-square error (RMSE) and their Fisher information. Here, instead, we ask how many bits of the parameter we can recover,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Lorenzo Maccone , Majid Hassani , Chiara Macchiavello

Quantum metrology concerns estimating a parameter from multiple identical uses of a quantum channel. We extend quantum metrology beyond this standard setting and consider estimation of a physical process with quantum memory, here referred…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Yuxiang Yang

This paper presents a Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for the estimation of parameters confined to an arbitrary set. Unlike existing results that rely on equality or inequality constraints, manifold structures, or the nonsingularity of the Fisher…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Heedong Do , Angel Lozano

In this work, we study the design of receivers for uplink multi-user systems, aiming to estimate both the channel and the transmitted symbols. We consider two estimation strategies: (i) a joint estimation approach, where the channel and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Xue Zhang , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

As shown by M\'edard, the capacity of fading channels with imperfect channel-state information (CSI) can be lower-bounded by assuming a Gaussian channel input $X$ with power $P$ and by upper-bounding the conditional entropy $h(X|Y,\hat{H})$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Adriano Pastore , Tobias Koch , Javier Rodríguez Fonollosa

A generic qubit unitary operator affected by quantum noise is duplicated and inserted in a coherently superposed channel, superposing two paths offered to a probe qubit across the noisy unitary, and driven by a control qubit. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Francois Chapeau-Blondeau
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