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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

In this work we derive a number of chain rules for mutual information quantities, suitable for analyzing quantum cryptography with imperfect devices that leak additional information to an adversary. First, we derive a chain rule between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Amir Arqand , Tony Metger , Ernest Y. -Z. Tan

Any reasonable measure of distinguishability of quantum states must satisfy a data processing inequality, that is, it must not increase under the action of a quantum channel. We can ask about the proportion of information lost or preserved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Shreyas Iyer , Peixue Wu , Paula Belzig , Graeme Smith

We consider the reverse problem to the distinguishability of two quantum channels, which we call the disguising problem. Given two quantum channels, the goal here is to make the two channels identical by mixing with some other channels with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 Chi-Hang Fred Fung , H. F. Chau

Quantum information processing and computing tasks can be understood as quantum networks, comprising quantum states and channels and possible physical transformations on them. It is hence pertinent to estimate the change in informational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Sohail , Vivek Pandey , Uttam Singh , Siddhartha Das

Uncertainty principle plays a vital role in quantum physics. The Wigner-Yanase skew information characterizes the uncertainty of an observable with respect to the measured state. We generalize the uncertainty relations for two quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Qing-Hua Zhang , Jing-Feng Wu , Shao-Ming Fei

The goal of quantum channel discrimination and estimation is to determine the identity of an unknown channel from a discrete or continuous set, respectively. The query complexity of these tasks is equal to the minimum number of times one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Zixin Huang , Johannes Jakob Meyer , Theshani Nuradha , Mark M. Wilde

The errors that arise in a quantum channel can be corrected perfectly if and only if the channel does not decrease the coherent information of the input state. We show that, if the loss of coherent information is small, then approximate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Benjamin Schumacher , Michael D. Westmoreland

We investigate the problem of determining the parameters that describe a quantum channel. It is assumed that the users of the channel have at best only partial knowledge of it and make use of a finite amount of resources to estimate it. We…

We obtain two new additivity results of quantum channels. The first one is the additivity of the channel R\'enyi information associated with the sandwiched R\'enyi divergence of order $\alpha\in[\frac{1}{2},1)$. To prove this, we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Ke Li , Quanhua Xu

The quantum \chi^2-divergence has recently been introduced and applied to quantum channels (quantum Markov processes). In contrast to the classical setting the quantum \chi^2-divergence is not unique but depends on the choice of quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-02 Frank Hansen

Quantum channel discrimination has been studied from an information-theoretic perspective, wherein one is interested in the optimal decay rate of error probabilities as a function of the number of unknown channel accesses. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Theshani Nuradha , Mark M. Wilde

A random unitary channel is one that is given by a convex combination of unitary channels. It is shown that the conjectures on the additivity of the minimum output entropy and the multiplicativity of the maximum output $p$-norm can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-15 Bill Rosgen

Long-distance optical quantum channels are necessarily lossy, leading to errors in transmitted quantum information, entanglement degradation and, ultimately, poor protocol performance. Quantum states carrying information in the channel can…

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

We present an instance of a task of minimum-error discrimination of two qubit-qubit quantum channels for which a sequential strategy outperforms any parallel strategy. We then establish two new classes of strategies for channel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Jessica Bavaresco , Mio Murao , Marco Túlio Quintino

Quantum addition channels have been recently introduced in the context of deriving entropic power inequalities for finite dimensional quantum systems. We prove a reverse entropy power equality which can be used to analytically prove an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Arun Kumar Pati , Sk Sazim

We establish the general framework of quantum fluctuation theorems by finding the symmetry between the forward and backward transitions of any given quantum channel. The Petz recovery map is adopted as the reverse quantum channel, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-23 Hyukjoon Kwon , M. S. Kim

The coherence-breaking channels play a significant role in quantum information theory. We study the coherence-breaking channels and give a method to amend the coherence-breaking channels by applying unitary operations. For given incoherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Long-Mei Yang , Bin Chen , Tao Li , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhi-Xi Wang

The study of quantum channels is the most fundamental theoretical problem in quantum information and quantum communication theory. The link product theory of quantum channels is an important tool for studying quantum networks. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Qiang Lei , Liuheng Cao , Asutosh Kumar , Junde Wu