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This paper studies implicit communication in linear quadratic Gaussian control systems. We show that the control system itself can serve as an implicit communication channel, enabling the controller to transmit messages through its inputs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Gongpu Chen , Deniz Gunduz

Fault-tolerant capacities quantify the ability of a quantum channel to reliably transmit information when every component of the encoding and decoding procedure is noisy. Earlier work analyzed achievable communication rates under such noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Paula Belzig , Hayata Yamasaki

In this work, we propose a covert communication scheme where the transmitter attempts to hide its transmission to a full-duplex receiver, from a warden that is to detect this covert transmission using a radiometer. Specifically, we first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Jinsong Hu , Khurram Shahzad , Shihao Yan , Xiangyun Zhou , Feng Shu , Jun Li

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…

We describe a novel protocol for a quantum repeater which enables long distance quantum communication through realistic, lossy photonic channels. Contrary to previous proposals, our protocol incorporates active purification of arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 L. Childress , J. M. Taylor , A. S. Sorensen , M. D. Lukin

A fundamental limitation of quantum communication is that a single qubit can carry at most 1 bit of classical information. For an important class of quantum communication channels, known as entanglement-breaking, this limitation holds even…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Giulio Chiribella , Saptarshi Roy , Tamal Guha , Sutapa Saha

We review recent results on the simulation of quantum channels, the reduction of adaptive protocols (teleportation stretching), and the derivation of converse bounds for quantum and private communication, as established in PLOB [Pirandola,…

We present an experimental method to detect lower bounds to the quantum capacity of two-qubit communication channels. We consider an implementation with polarisation degrees of freedom of two photons and report on the efficiency of such a…

We present a protocol for quantum cryptography in which the data obtained for mismatched bases are used in full for the purpose of quantum state tomography. Eavesdropping on the quantum channel is seriously impeded by requiring that the…

Coherent information quantifies the transmittable quantum information through a channel and is directly linked to the channel's quantum capacity. In a monitored quantum circuit, regarded as a quantum channel, extensive and positive coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Dongheng Qian , Jing Wang

Cat-state qubits formed by photonic cat states have a biased noise channel, i.e., one type of error dominates over all the others. We demonstrate that such biased-noise qubits are also promising for error-tolerant simulations of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Ye-Hong Chen , Zhi-Cheng Shi , Franco Nori , Yan Xia

This paper considers the problem of covert communication with mismatched decoding, in which a sender wishes to reliably communicate with a receiver whose decoder is fixed and possibly sub-optimal, and simultaneously to ensure that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Qiaosheng Zhang , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Optical channels, such as fibers or free-space links, are ubiquitous in today's telecommunication networks. They rely on the electromagnetic field associated with photons to carry information from one point to another in space. As a result,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 V. Giovannetti , R. Garcia-Patron , N. J. Cerf , A. S. Holevo

Current advancements in communication equipment demand the investigation of classical information transfer over quantum channels, by encompassing realistic scenarios in finite dimensions. To address this issue, we develop a framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Sudipta Mondal , Pritam Halder , Saptarshi Roy , Aditi Sen De

Information must take up space, must weigh, and its flux must be limited. Quantum limits on communication and information storage leading to these conclusions are here described. Quantum channel capacity theory is reviewed for both steady…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Jacob D. Bekenstein , Marcelo Schiffer

Network information theory is the study of communication problems involving multiple senders, multiple receivers and intermediate relay stations. The purpose of this thesis is to extend the main ideas of classical network information theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-22 Ivan Savov

We analyze a task in which classical and quantum messages are simultaneously communicated via a noisy quantum channel, assisted with a limited amount of shared entanglement. We derive direct and converse bounds for the one-shot capacity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Eyuri Wakakuwa , Yoshifumi Nakata

This paper studies a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) free-space optical (FSO) communication system employing continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD), with the goal to support secret key transmission between two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Sushil Kumar , Soumya P. Dash , George C. Alexandropoulos

Wireless communication derives its power from the simultaneous emission of signals in multiple directions. However, in the context of quantum communication, this phenomenon must be reconciled carefully with the no-cloning principle. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Robert H. Jonsson , Katja Ried , Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Achim Kempf

Encrypted control has been extensively studied to ensure the confidentiality of system states and control inputs for networked control systems. This paper presents a computationally efficient encrypted control framework for networked…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Zihao Ren , Daniel Quevedo , Salah Sukkarieh , Guodong Shi