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Quantum channel estimation and discrimination are fundamentally related information processing tasks of interest in quantum information science. In this paper, we analyze these tasks by employing the right logarithmic derivative Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Vishal Katariya , Mark M. Wilde

This paper introduces coherent quantum channel discrimination as a coherent version of conventional quantum channel discrimination. Coherent channel discrimination is phrased here as a quantum interactive proof system between a verifier and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Mark M. Wilde

We consider the sequential quantum channel discrimination problem using adaptive and non-adaptive strategies. In this setting the number of uses of the underlying quantum channel is not fixed but a random variable that is either bounded in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yonglong Li , Christoph Hirche , Marco Tomamichel

Quantum-inspired classical algorithms provide us with a new way to understand the computational power of quantum computers for practically-relevant problems, especially in machine learning. In the past several years, numerous efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Nikhil S. Mande , Changpeng Shao

How many black-box queries to a quantum channel are needed to learn its full classical description? This question lies at the heart of quantum channel tomography (also known as quantum process tomography), a fundamental task in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Kean Chen , Filippo Girardi , Aadil Oufkir , Nengkun Yu , Zhicheng Zhang

We show a nearly quadratic separation between deterministic communication complexity and the logarithm of the partition number, which is essentially optimal. This improves upon a recent power 1.5 separation of G\"o\"os, Pitassi, and Watson…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Robin Kothari

We study the problem of binary composite channel discrimination in the asymmetric setting, where the hypotheses are given by fairly arbitrary sets of channels, and samples do not have to be identically distributed. In the case of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Bjarne Bergh , Nilanjana Datta , Robert Salzmann

The guesswork of a classical-quantum channel quantifies the cost incurred in guessing the state transmitted by the channel when only one state can be queried at a time, maximized over any classical pre-processing and minimized over any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Baasanchimed Avirmed , Kaito Niinomi , Michele Dall'Arno

Being attracted by the property of classical polar code, researchers are trying to find its analogue in quantum fields, which is called quantum polar code. The first step and the key to design quantum polar code is to find out for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Zhengzhong Yi , Zhipeng Liang , Xuan Wang

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

A general framework describing the statistical discrimination of an ensemble of quantum channels is given by the name of quantum reading. Several tools can be applied in quantum reading to reduce the error probability in distinguishing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 Francisco Revson Fernandes Pereira , Stefano Mancini

Distinguishability is fundamental to information theory and extends naturally to quantum systems. While quantum state discrimination is well understood, quantum channel discrimination remains challenging due to the dynamic nature of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Kun Fang , Gilad Gour , Xin Wang

We introduce a new framework for quantifying the complexity of quantum channels, grounded in a suitably chosen resource set. This class of convex functions is designed to analyze the complexity of both open and closed quantum systems. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Roy Araiza , Yidong Chen , Marius Junge , Peixue Wu

We consider compound as well as arbitrarily varying classical-quantum channel models. For classical-quantum compound channels, we give an elementary proof of the direct part of the coding theorem. A weak converse under average error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-14 Igor Bjelaković , Holger Boche , Gisbert Janßen , Janis Nötzel

Estimating the unitarity of an unknown quantum channel $\mathcal{E}$ provides information on how much it is unitary, which is a basic and important problem in quantum device certification and benchmarking. Unitarity estimation can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Kean Chen , Qisheng Wang , Peixun Long , Mingsheng Ying

One of the fundamental tasks in quantum information processing is to measure the quantum channels. Similar to measurements of quantum states, measurements of quantum channels are inherently stochastic, that is, quantum theory provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Taihei Kimoto , Takayuki Miyadera

The problem of discriminating between many quantum channels with certainty is analyzed under the assumption of prior knowledge of algebraic relations among possible channels. It is shown, by explicit construction of a novel family of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Zane M. Rossi , Isaac L. Chuang

Channel resolvability concerns the minimum resolution for approximating the channel output. We study the resolvability of classical-quantum channels in two settings, for the channel output generated from the worst input, and form the fixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Masahito Hayashi , Hao-Chung Cheng , Li Gao

We analyse families of codes for classical data transmission over quantum channels that have both a vanishing probability of error and a code rate approaching capacity as the code length increases. To characterise the fundamental tradeoff…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Christopher T. Chubb , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Marco Tomamichel

We prove a one-shot "minimax" converse bound for quantum channel coding assisted by positive partial transpose channels between sender and receiver. The bound is similar in spirit to the converse by Polyanskiy, Poor, and Verdu [IEEE Trans.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-01 Joseph M. Renes