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In our previous work, we presented the \emph{Hypothesis Testing Lemma}, a key tool that establishes sufficient conditions for the existence of good deterministic identification (DI) codes for memoryless channels with finite output, but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Pau Colomer , Christian Deppe , Holger Boche , Andreas Winter

We investigate entanglement transmission over an unknown channel in the presence of a third party (called the adversary), which is enabled to choose the channel from a given set of memoryless but non-stationary channels without informing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-12 Rudolf Ahlswede , Igor Bjelakovic , Holger Boche , Janis Noetzel

We address the issue of the discrimination between two-qubit amplitude damping channels by exploring several strategies. For the single-shot, we show that the excited state does not always give the optimal input, and that side entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Milajiguli Rexiti , Stefano Mancini

Discriminating between noisy quantum processes is a central primitive for quantum communication, metrology, and computing. While discrimination limits for finite-dimensional channels are well understood, the continuous-variable setting,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Zixin Huang , Ludovico Lami , Vishal Singh , Mark M. Wilde

In this work, we consider optimal state discrimination for a quantum system that interacts with an environment, i.e., states evolve under a quantum channel. We show the conditions on a quantum channel and an ensemble of states such that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Spiros Kechrimparis , Tanmay Singal , Chahan M. Kropf , Joonwoo Bae

We introduce a novel generalization of entropy and conditional entropy from which most definitions from the literature can be derived as particular cases. Within this general framework, we investigate the problem of designing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 MHR Khouzani , Pasquale Malacaria

In this work we improve the quantum communication rates of various quantum channels of interest using permutation-invariant quantum codes. We focus in particular on parametrized families of quantum channels and aim to improve bounds on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Sujeet Bhalerao , Felix Leditzky

In Ref. [1], we proved a duality between two optimizations problems. The primary one is, given two quantum channels M and N, to find a quantum channel R such that RN is optimally close to M as measured by the worst-case entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-26 Cédric Bény , Ognyan Oreshkov

Quantum Channel Discrimination (QCD) presents a fundamental task in quantum information theory, with critical applications in quantum reading, illumination, data-readout and more. The extension to multiple quantum channel discrimination has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Cillian Harney , Leonardo Banchi , Stefano Pirandola

Motivated by applications to covert quantum radar, we analyze a covert quantum sensing problem, in which a legitimate user aims at estimating an unknown parameter taking finitely many values by probing a quantum channel while remaining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Matthieu Bloch

We characterize the capacity for the discrete-time arbitrarily varying channel with discrete inputs, outputs, and states when (a) the encoder and decoder do not share common randomness, (b) the input and state are subject to cost…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Yihan Zhang , Sidharth Jaggi , Michael Langberg , Anand D. Sarwate

Recently, the resource theory of asymmetric distinguishability for quantum strategies was introduced by [Wang et al., Phys. Rev. Research 1, 033169 (2019)]. The fundamental objects in the resource theory are pairs of quantum strategies,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Vishal Katariya , Mark M. Wilde

For all p > 1, we demonstrate the existence of quantum channels with non-multiplicative maximal output p-norms. Equivalently, for all p >1, the minimum output Renyi entropy of order p of a quantum channel is not additive. The violations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-06 Patrick Hayden , Andreas Winter

Amplitude damping (AD) channels are good models for many physical scenarios, and so the development of protocols to discriminate between them is an important task in quantum information science. It is therefore important to bound the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Jason L. Pereira , Stefano Pirandola

This paper investigates achievable information rates and error exponents of mismatched decoding when the channel belongs to the class of channels that are close to the decoding metric in terms of relative entropy. For both discrete- and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Priyanka Patel , Francesc Molina , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

We prove the quantum conditional Entropy Power Inequality for quantum additive noise channels. This inequality lower bounds the quantum conditional entropy of the output of an additive noise channel in terms of the quantum conditional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Giacomo De Palma , Stefan Huber

We provide a simple example that illustrates the advantage of adaptive over non-adaptive strategies for quantum channel discrimination. In particular, we give a pair of entanglement-breaking channels that can be perfectly discriminated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Aram W. Harrow , Avinatan Hassidim , Debbie W. Leung , John Watrous

The quantum data processing inequality asserts that two quantum states become harder to distinguish when a noisy channel is applied. On the other hand, a reverse quantum data processing inequality characterizes whether distinguishability is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Paula Belzig , Li Gao , Graeme Smith , Peixue Wu

We examine the task of privacy amplification from information-theoretic and coding-theoretic points of view. In the former, we give a one-shot characterization of the optimal rate of privacy amplification against classical adversaries in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Joseph M. Renes

The main topic of this thesis is the proof of two fundamental entropic inequalities for quantum Gaussian channels. Quantum Gaussian channels model the propagation of electromagnetic waves through optical fibers and free space in the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-27 Giacomo De Palma