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We study covert classical communication over a quantum multiple-access channel (MAC) with a helper. Specifically, we consider three transmitters, where one transmitter helps the other two transmitters communicate covertly with a receiver.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Hassan ZivariFard , Rémi A. Chou , Xiaodong Wang

Quantum communication is a holy grail to achieve secure communication among a set of partners, since it is provably unbreakable by physical laws. Quantum sensing employs quantum entanglement as an extra resource to determine parameters by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Mikel Sanz , Kirill G. Fedorov , Frank Deppe , Enrique Solano

Noise is the main obstacle for the realization of fault tolerant quantum information processing and secure communication over long distances. In this work, we propose a communication protocol relying on simple linear optics that optimally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Mikael Lassen , Adriano Berni , Lars S. Madsen , Radim Filip , Ulrik L. Andersen

Optical communication is the standard for high-bandwidth information transfer in today's digital age. The increasing demand for bandwidth has led to the maturation of coherent transceivers that use phase- and amplitude-modulated optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 John Crossman , Spencer Dimitroff , Lukasz Cincio , Mohan Sarovar

We consider the problem of covert communication over continuous-time additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels under spectral mask constraints, wherein two legitimate parties attempt to communicate reliably in the presence of an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Qiaosheng , Zhang , Matthieu R. Bloch , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi

Covert communication can prevent an adversary from knowing that a wireless transmission has occurred. In additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels, a square root law is found that Alice can reliably and covertly transmit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Zhihong Liu , Jiajia Liu , Yong Zeng , Jianfeng Ma

We consider transmission of an (unknown) quantum state between two distant atoms via photons. Based on a quantum-optical realistic model, we define a noisy quantum channel which includes systematic errors as well as errors due to coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 S. J. van Enk , J. I. Cirac , P. Zoller

Designing encoding and decoding circuits to reliably send messages over many uses of a noisy channel is a central problem in communication theory. When studying the optimal transmission rates achievable with asymptotically vanishing error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Matthias Christandl , Alexander Müller-Hermes

Quantum repeaters constitute a promising platform for enabling long distance quantum communication and may ultimately serve as the backbone of a secure quantum internet, a scalable quantum network, or a distributed quantum computer. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 S. Nibedita Swain , Timothy C. Ralph

The physical layer describes how communication signals are encoded and transmitted across a channel. Physical security often requires either restricting access to the channel or performing periodic manual inspections. In this tutorial, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-18 Travis S. Humble

The two-way capacities of quantum channels determine the ultimate entanglement and secret-key distribution rates achievable by two distant parties that are connected by a noisy transmission line, in absence of quantum repeaters. Since…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Francesco Anna Mele , Ludovico Lami , Vittorio Giovannetti

Communication over a noisy quantum channel introduces errors in the transmission that must be corrected. A fundamental bound on quantum error correction is the quantum capacity, which quantifies the amount of quantum data that can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-20 Graeme Smith , Jon Yard

We experimentally realized a new method for transmitting quantum information reliably through paired optical polarization-maintaining (PM) fibers. The physical setup extends the use of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, where noises are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Jin-Shi Xu , Man-Hong Yung , Xiao-Ye Xu , Jian-Shun Tang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Shannon's channel coding theorem describes the maximum possible rate of reliable information transfer through a classical noisy communication channel. It, together with the source coding theorem, characterizes lossless channel communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-17 Sristy Agrawal , Rajashik Tarafder , Graeme Smith , Arup Roy , Manik Banik

We consider covert communication using a queuing timing channel in the presence of a warden. The covert message is encoded using the inter-arrival times of the packets, and the legitimate receiver and the warden observe the inter-departure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Pritam Mukherjee , Sennur Ulukus

Quantum communication theory sets the maximum rates at which information can be encoded and decoded reliably given the physical properties of the information carriers. Here we consider the problem of readout of a digital optical memory,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-18 Cosmo Lupo , Stefano Pirandola , Vittorio Giovannetti , Stefano Mancini

We find the maximum rate achievable in the private communication over a bosonic quantum channel with a fully Gaussian protocol based on optimal single-mode Gaussian measurements. This rate establishes a lower bound on the secret rate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Giuseppe Ortolano , Stefano Pirandola , Leonardo Banchi

This paper considers the covert identification problem in which a sender aims to reliably convey an identification (ID) message to a set of receivers via a binary-input discrete memoryless channel (BDMC), and simultaneously to guarantee…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Qiaosheng Zhang , Vincent Y. F. Tan

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…

The no-cloning theorem leads to information-theoretic security in various quantum cryptographic protocols. However, this security typically derives from a possibly weaker property that classical information encoded in certain quantum states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Ian George , Rene Allerstorfer , Philip Verduyn Lunel , Eric Chitambar