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We demonstrate the achievability of a square root limit on the amount of information transmitted reliably and with low probability of detection (LPD) over the single-mode lossy bosonic channel if either the eavesdropper's measurements or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Boulat A. Bash , Saikat Guha , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley

We investigate covert communication over general memoryless classical-quantum channels with fixed finite-size input alphabets. We show that the square root law (SRL) governs covert communication in this setting when product of $n$ input…

Shared entanglement can significantly amplify classical correlations between systems interacting over a limited quantum channel. A natural avenue is to use entanglement of the same dimension as the channel because this allows for unitary…

Entanglement represents one of the most important conceptual advances in physics during the last century and is also one of the most essential resources in quantum information science. However, entanglement is fragile and its potential…

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

The heralded generation of entangled states underpins many photonic quantum technologies. As quantum error correction thresholds are determined by underlying physical noise mechanisms, a detailed and faithful characterization of resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Reece D. Shaw , Alex E. Jones , Patrick Yard , Anthony Laing

In single-qubit quantum secret sharing, a secret is shared between N parties via manipulation and measurement of one qubit at a time. Each qubit is sent to all N parties in sequence; the secret is encoded in the first participant's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-12 P. Scherpelz , R. Resch , D. Berryrieser , T. W. Lynn

Covert communication conceals the transmission of the message from an attentive adversary. Recent work on the limits of covert communication in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels has demonstrated that a covert transmitter (Alice)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Ramin Soltani , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Boulat Bash , Saikat Guha

We present a study of the achievable rates for classical information transmission via a lossy bosonic channel with memory, using homodyne detection. A comparison with the memoryless case shows that the presence of memory enhances the bit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-14 Cosmo Lupo , Stefano Mancini

Efficient heralded generation of entanglement together with its manipulation is of great importance for quantum communications. In addition, states generated with bandwidths naturally compatible with atomic transitions allow a more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 A. Zavatta , M. Artoni , G. La Rocca

We consider the problem of creating a long-distance entangled state between two stations of a network, where neighboring nodes are connected by noisy quantum channels. We show that any two stations can share an entangled pair if the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-19 S. Perseguers , L. Jiang , N. Schuch , F. Verstraete , M. D. Lukin , J. I. Cirac , K. G. H. Vollbrecht

Transmission of quantum entanglement will play a crucial role in future networks and long-distance quantum communications. Quantum Key Distribution, the working mechanism of quantum repeaters and the various quantum communication protocols…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Laszlo Gyongyosi

In order to implement fault-tolerant quantum computation, entanglement generation with low error probability and high success probability is required. We have proposed the use of squeezed coherent light as a probe to generate entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Fumiaki Matsuoka , Akihisa Tomita , Atsushi Okamoto

The fundamental information-theoretic limits of covert, or low probability of detection (LPD), communication have been extensively studied for over a decade, resulting in the square root law (SRL): only $L\sqrt{n}$ covert bits can be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Rohan Bali , Trevor E. Bailey , Michael S. Bullock , Boulat A. Bash

We consider a quantum relay which is used by two parties to perform several continuous-variable protocols of quantum communication, from entanglement distribution (swapping and distillation), to quantum teleportation, and quantum key…

We study two-way covert communication schemes, where information is transmitted by passively modulating a reflected signal back to the source. We consider optical systems, described by quantum bosonic channels. While broadband classical and…

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

The recent square root law (SRL) for covert communication demonstrates that Alice can reliably transmit $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{n})$ bits to Bob in $n$ uses of an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel while keeping ineffective any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Boulat A. Bash , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley

Generating entanglement deterministically at a capacity-approaching rate is critical for next-generation quantum networks. We propose weak-coherent-state-assisted protocols that can generate entanglement near-deterministically between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Chaohan Cui , Prajit Dhara , Saikat Guha

We find the maximum rate achievable in the private communication over a bosonic quantum channel with a fully Gaussian protocol based on optimal single-mode Gaussian measurements. This rate establishes a lower bound on the secret rate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Giuseppe Ortolano , Stefano Pirandola , Leonardo Banchi