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Existing quantum cryptographic schemes are not, as they stand, operable in the presence of noise on the quantum communication channel. Although they become operable if they are supplemented by classical privacy-amplification techniques, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 D. Deutsch , A. Ekert , R. Jozsa , C. Macchiavello , S. Popescu , A. Sanpera

Distributed deep neural networks (DNNs) have emerged as a key technique to reduce communication overhead without sacrificing performance in edge computing systems. Recently, entropy coding has been introduced to further reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Milin Zhang , Mohammad Abdi , Shahriar Rifat , Francesco Restuccia

We show that one may take advantages in both robusty and key rate of asymmetric channel noise.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. B. Wang

In this paper, we consider a recent channel model of a nanopore sequencer proposed by McBain, Viterbo, and Saunderson (2024), termed the noisy nanopore channel (NNC). In essence, an NNC is a duplication channel with structured, Markov…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 V. Arvind Rameshwar , Nir Weinberger

Entanglement plays an indispensable role in numerous quantum information and quantum computation tasks, underscoring the need for efficiently verifying entangled states. In recent years, quantum state verification has received increasing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Lan Zhang , Yinfei Li , Ye-Chao Liu , Jiangwei Shang

We establish the capacity of a class of communication channels introduced in [1]. The $n$-letter input from a finite alphabet is passed through a discrete memoryless channel $P_{Z|X}$ and then the output $n$-letter sequence is uniformly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Jennifer Tang , Yury Polyanskiy

We consider a cryptographically motivated framework for quantum metrology in the presence of a malicious adversary. We begin by devising an estimation strategy for a (potentially) altered resource (due to a malicious adversary) and quantify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Nathan Shettell , Elham Kashefi , Damian Markham

Two partial orderings among communication channels, namely, `being degradable into' and `being less noisy than,' are reconsidered in the light of recent results about statistical comparisons of quantum channels. Though our analysis covers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-01 Francesco Buscemi

Whether noisy quantum devices without error correction can provide quantum advantage over classical computers is a critical issue of current quantum computation. In this work, the random quantum circuits, which are used as the paradigm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Meng Zhang , Chao Wang , Shaojun Dong , Hao Zhang , Yongjian Han , Lixin He

Motivated by the application of point-to-point communication networks and biological storage, we investigate new achievability bounds for noisy permutation channels with strictly positive and full-rank square matrices. Our new bounds use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Lugaoze Feng , Xunan Li , Guocheng Lv , Ye jin

Noisy channels are a powerful resource for cryptography as they can be used to obtain information-theoretically secure key agreement, commitment and oblivious transfer protocols, among others. Oblivious transfer (OT) is a fundamental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Rafael Dowsley , Anderson C. A. Nascimento

We propose a covert communication protocol for the spread-spectrum multiple random access with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. No existing paper has studied covert communication for the random access channel. Our protocol…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Masahito Hayashi , Angeles Vazquez-Castro

We establish the necessary and sufficient conditions for unbiased estimation in multi-parameter estimation tasks. More specifically, we first consider quantum state estimation, where multiple parameters are encoded in a quantum state, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Hyukgun Kwon , Kento Tsubouchi , Chia-Tung Chu , Liang Jiang

In this paper we introduce a way to quantify the noise level associated to a given quantum transformation. The key mechanism lying at the heart of the proposal is "noise addition": in other words we compute the amount of extra noise we need…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Antonella De Pasquale , Vittorio Giovannetti

In this paper, we explore the impact of noise on quantum computing, particularly focusing on the challenges when sampling bit strings from noisy quantum computers as well as the implications for optimization and machine learning…

We investigate machine learning based on clustering techniques that are suitable for the detection of encoded strings of q-ary symbols transmitted over a noisy channel with partially unknown characteristics. We consider the detection of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-24 Kees A. Schouhamer Immink , Kui Cai

We consider the security of continuous-variable quantum cryptography as we approach the classical-limit, i.e., when the unknown preparation noise at the sender's station becomes significantly noisy or thermal (even by as much as 10,000…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-17 Christian Weedbrook , Stefano Pirandola , Seth Lloyd , Timothy C. Ralph

We present two robust quantum key distribution protocols against two kinds of collective noise, following some ideas in quantum dense coding. Three-qubit entangled states are used as quantum information carriers, two of which forming the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-12 Xi-Han Li , Bao-Kui Zhao , Yu-Bo Sheng , Fu-Guo Deng , Hong-Yu Zhou

To make DNA a suitable medium for archival data storage, it is essential to consider the decay process of the strands observed in DNA storage systems. This paper studies the decay process as a probabilistic noisy torn paper channel (TPC),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Frederik Walter , Maria Abu-Sini , Nils Weinhardt , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

The channel capacity of a nonlinear, dispersive fiber-optic link is revisited. To this end, the popular Gaussian noise (GN) model is extended with a parameter to account for the finite memory of realistic fiber channels. This finite-memory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-07 Erik Agrell , Alex Alvarado , Giuseppe Durisi , Magnus Karlsson