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Information transfer through electromagnetic waves is an important problem that touches a variety of technologically relevant applications, including computing and telecommunications. Prior attempts to establish limits on optical…

Over the past several decades, the proliferation of global classical communication networks has transformed various facets of human society. Concurrently, quantum networking has emerged as a dynamic field of research, driven by its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Joseph M. Lukens , Nicholas A. Peters , Bing Qi

The potential benefits of extending the optical fibre transmission bandwidth are studied. Even in the presence of Kerr nonlinearity and inter-channel stimulated Raman scattering, increasing the usable optical fibre bandwidth appears to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-09 Gabriel Saavedra , Daniel Semrau , Polina Bayvel

Encoding schemes and error-correcting codes are widely used in information technology to improve the reliability of data transmission over real-world communication channels. Quantum information protocols can further enhance the performance…

Noise in optical Telecom fibers is an important limitation on optical quantum data transmission. Unfortunately, the classically successful amplifiers (such as EDFA) cannot be used in quantum communication because of the no-cloning theorem.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lian-Ao Wu , Daniel A. Lidar

This paper considers a problem of quantum communication between parties that are connected through a network of quantum channels. The model in this paper assumes that there is no prior entanglement shared among any of the parties, but that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-30 Hirotada Kobayashi , Francois Le Gall , Harumichi Nishimura , Martin Roetteler

Quantum information processing technology offers several communication strategies, which offer capacity advantages over classical technologies. However, advantages typically arise only in very particular communication scenarios which are of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Simon Sekavčnik , Janis Nötzel

New and novel way for resources allocation in wireless communication has been proposed in this paper. Under this new method, it has been shown that the required power budget becomes independent of the number of served terminals in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Mohammed Elmusrati

As the inevitable development trend of quantum key distribution, quantum networks have attracted extensive attention, and many prototypes have been deployed over recent years. Existing quantum networks based on optical fibers or quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-29 Dong Jiang , Weicong Huang , Chaohui Gao , Jia Liu , Lijun Chen

We discover the quantum analog of the well-known classical maximum power transfer theorem. Our theoretical framework considers the continuous steady-state problem of coherent energy transfer through an N-node bosonic network coupled to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Cristian L. Cortes , Zubin Jacob

The information capacity of an optical channel under power constraints is ultimately limited by the quantum nature of transmitted signals. We discuss currently available and emerging photonic technologies whose combination can be shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Konrad Banaszek , Ludwig Kunz , Marcin Jarzyna , Michał Jachura

Quantum communications bring a paradigm change in internet security by using quantum resources to establish secure keys between parties. Present-day quantum communications networks are mainly point-to-point and use trusted nodes and key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 S. Suciu , G. A. Bulzan , T. A. Isdraila , A. M. Palici , S. Ataman , C. Kusko , R. Ionicioiu

Quantum networks hold promise for key distribution, private and distributed computing, and quantum sensing, among other applications. The scale of such networks for ground users is currently limited by one's ability to distribute…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Yanxuan Shao , Saikat Guha , Adilson E. Motter

We consider the problem of quantum communication mediated by an optical refocusing system, which is schematized as a thin lens with a finite pupil. This model captures the basic features of all those situations in which a signal is either…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Cosmo Lupo , Vittorio Giovannetti , Stefano Pirandola , Stefano Mancini , Seth Lloyd

Quantum key distribution (QKD), the distribution of quantum secured keys useful for data encryption, is expected to have a crucial impact in the next decades. However, although the notable achievements accomplished in the last twenty years,…

We give trade-offs between classical communication, quantum communication, and entanglement for processing information in the Shannon-theoretic setting. We first prove a unit-resource capacity theorem that applies to the scenario where only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-23 Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Mark M. Wilde

Quantum communication is a growing area of research, with quantum internet being one of the most promising applications. Studying the statistical properties of this network is essential to understanding its connectivity and the efficiency…

Here, we study the capacity of a quantum channel, assuming linear optical encoding, as a function of available photons and optical modes. First, we observe that substantial improvement is made possible by not restricting ourselves to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Jake A. Smith , Dmitry B. Uskov , Lev Kaplan

A future quantum network will consist of quantum processors that are connected by quantum channels, just like conventional computers are wired up to form the Internet. In contrast to classical devices, however, the entanglement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Andreas Reiserer

By taking advantage of the temporal correlations of the nonlinear phase noise in WDM systems we show that the capacity of a nonlinear fiber link is notably higher than what is currently assumed. This advantage is translated into the…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-21 Ronen Dar , Mark Shtaif , Meir Feder