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This paper considers a sequential estimation and sensor scheduling problem in the presence of multiple communication channels. As opposed to the classical remote estimation problem that involves one perfect (noiseless) channel and one…

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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

Capacity of a quantum channel characterizes the limits of reliable communication through a noisy quantum channel. This fundamental information theoretic question is very well studied specially in the setting of many independent uses of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Anurag Anshu , Rahul Jain , Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi

Quantum entanglement, perhaps the most non-classical manifestation of quantum information theory, cannot be used to transmit information between remote parties. Yet, it can be used to reduce the amount of communication required to process a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 Gilles Brassard , Anne Broadbent , Alain Tapp

Consider two parties who want to agree on a common frequency band for communication in the presence of independent jammers. Such jammers block a different subset of bands at each site, where each party can observe only its own set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Stephanie Wehner

The optimal rate of reliable communication over a quantum channel can be enhanced by pre-shared entanglement. Whereas the enhancement may be unbounded in infinite-dimensional settings even when the input power is constrained, a…

We introduce the study of quantum protocols that probabilistically simulate quantum channels from a sender in the future to a receiver in the past. The maximum probability of simulation is determined by causality and depends on the amount…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Dina Genkina , Giulio Chiribella , Lucien Hardy

This paper considers a sequential sensor scheduling and remote estimation problem with multiple communication channels. Departing from the classical remote estimation paradigm, which involves one communication channel (noiseless or noisy),…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Xiaobin Gao , Emrah Akyol , Tamer Basar

Nonclassical correlations between the quadrature-phase amplitudes of two spatially separated optical beams are exploited to realize a two-channel quantum communication experiment with a high degree of immunity to interception. For this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. F. Pereira , Z. Y. Ou , H. J. Kimble

Maximally entangled states--a resource for quantum information processing--can only be shared through noiseless quantum channels, whereas in practice channels are noisy. Here we ask: Given a noisy quantum channel, what is the maximum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Rajarshi Pal , Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay , Sibasish Ghosh

Given a classical channel---a stochastic map from inputs to outputs---the input can often be transformed to an intermediate variable that is informationally smaller than the input. The new channel accurately simulates the original but at a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 S. Loomis , J. R. Mahoney , C. Aghamohammadi , J. P. Crutchfield

Quantum applications transmit and receive data through quantum and classical communication channels. Channel capacity, the distance and the photon path between transmitting and receiving parties and the speed of the computation links play…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Mee Seong Im , Venkat R. Dasari

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are promising tools for demonstrating quantum utility on near-term quantum hardware, with applications in optimisation, quantum simulation, and machine learning. While researchers have studied how easy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Connor van Rossum , Sally Shrapnel , Riddhi Gupta

Dual to the usual noisy channel coding problem, where a noisy (classical or quantum) channel is used to simulate a noiseless one, reverse Shannon theorems concern the use of noiseless channels to simulate noisy ones, and more generally the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Charles H. Bennett , Igor Devetak , Aram W. Harrow , Peter W. Shor , Andreas Winter

Non-signalling quantum channels -- relevant in, e.g., the study of Bell and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen scenarios -- may be simulated via affine combinations of local operations in bipartite scenarios. Moreover, when these channels correspond…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Paulo J. Cavalcanti , John H. Selby , Jamie Sikora , Ana Belén Sainz

We present an experiment demonstrating entanglement-enhanced classical communication capacity of a quantum channel with correlated noise. The channel is modelled by a fiber optic link exhibiting random birefringence that fluctuates on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Banaszek , A. Dragan , W. Wasilewski , C. Radzewicz

We propose constructive approaches for the optimization of binary classical communication over a general noisy qubit quantum channel, for both the error probability and the classical capacity functionals. After showing that the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-09 Nicola Dalla Pozza , Nicola Laurenti , Francesco Ticozzi

Machine learning techniques have garnered great interest in designing communication systems owing to their capacity in tackling with channel uncertainty. To provide theoretical guarantees for learning-based communication systems, some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zheshun Wu , Junfan Li , Zenglin Xu , Sumei Sun , Jie Liu

As our main result we show that, in order to achieve the randomness assisted message - and entanglement transmission capacities of a finite arbitrarily varying quantum channel it is not necessary that sender and receiver share…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Holger Boche , Janis Noetzel

The zero-error capacity of a noisy classical channel quantifies its ability to transmit information with absolute certainty, i.e., without any error. Unlike Shannon's standard channel capacity, which remains unaffected by pre-shared…