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Quantum state exclusion is an operational task with application to ontological interpretations of quantum states. In such a task, one is given a system whose state is randomly selected from a finite set, and the goal is to identify a state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Kaiyuan Ji , Hemant K. Mishra , Milán Mosonyi , Mark M. Wilde

We present an efficient quantum algorithm for a structured state discrimination problem we call the subspace decoding task. Building on this, we show that the algorithm enables efficient and optimal decoding of certain families of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Christophe Piveteau , Joseph M. Renes

A fundamental quantity of interest in Shannon theory, classical or quantum, is the optimal error exponent of a given channel W and rate R: the constant E(W,R) which governs the exponential decay of decoding error when using ever larger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Joseph M. Renes

In the simple quantum hypothesis testing problem, upper bound with asymmetric setting is shown by using a quite useful inequality by Audenaert et al, quant-ph/0610027, which was originally invented for symmetric setting. Using this upper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masahito Hayashi

We propose a quantum soft-covering problem for a given general quantum channel and one of its output states, which consists in finding the minimum rank of an input state needed to approximate the given channel output. We then prove a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Touheed Anwar Atif , S. Sandeep Pradhan , Andreas Winter

In this work, we study the tradeoffs between the error probabilities of classical-quantum channels and the blocklength $n$ when the transmission rates approach the channel capacity at a rate slower than $1/\sqrt{n}$, a research topic known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-26 Hao-Chung Cheng , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Coding theorems and (strong) converses for memoryless quantum communication channels and quantum sources are proved: for the quantum source the coding theorem is reviewed, and the strong converse proven. For classical information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Winter

An important part of the information theory folklore had been about the output statistics of codes that achieve the capacity and how the empirical distributions compare to the output distributions induced by the optimal input in the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Alptug Aytekin , Mohamed Nomeir , Lei Hu , Sennur Ulukus

We present a proof for the quantum channel coding theorem which relies on the fact that a randomly chosen code space typically is highly suitable for quantum error correction. In this sense, the proof is close to Shannon's original…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-18 Rochus Klesse

We consider an infinite class of unambiguous quantum state discrimination problems on multipartite systems, described by Hilbert space $\cal{H}$, of any number of parties. Restricting consideration to measurements that act only on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Scott M. Cohen

We determine the exact error and strong converse exponent for entanglement-assisted classical-quantum channel simulation in worst case input purified distance. The error exponent is expressed as a single-letter formula optimized over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Aadil Oufkir , Yongsheng Yao , Mario Berta

Computing the classical capacity of a noisy quantum channel is crucial for understanding the limits of communication over quantum channels. However, its evaluation remains challenging due to the difficulty of computing the Holevo capacity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Chengkai Zhu , Renfeng Peng , Bin Gao , Xin Wang

We study the reliability function of general classical-quantum channels, which describes the optimal exponent of the decay of decoding error when the communication rate is below the capacity. As the main result, we prove a lower bound, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Ke Li , Dong Yang

Quantum information science strives to leverage the quantum-mechanical nature of our universe in order to achieve large improvements in certain information processing tasks. In deep-space optical communications, current receivers for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Narayanan Rengaswamy

We propose an iterative method for approximating the capacity of classical-quantum channels with a discrete input alphabet and a finite dimensional output, possibly under additional constraints on the input distribution. Based on duality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 David Sutter , Tobias Sutter , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Renato Renner

How well can we approximate a quantum channel output state using a random codebook with a certain size? In this work, we study the quantum soft covering problem. Namely, we use a random codebook with codewords independently sampled from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Hao-Chung Cheng , Li Gao

The one-shot classical capacity of a quantum channel quantifies the amount of classical information that can be transmitted through a single use of the channel such that the error probability is below a certain threshold. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-29 Ligong Wang , Renato Renner

Shared entanglement is a resource available to parties communicating over a quantum channel, much akin to public coins in classical communication protocols. Whereas shared randomness does not help in the transmission of information, or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Ashwin Nayak , Julia Salzman

We show that the probability distribution of the error exponent in i.i.d. code ensembles over classical-quantum (CQ) channels with arbitrary output states accumulates above a threshold that is strictly larger than the CQ random coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Giuseppe Cocco , Javier Rodríguez Fonollosa

Quantum data locking is a protocol that allows for a small secret key to (un)lock an exponentially larger amount of information, hence yielding the strongest violation of the classical one-time pad encryption in the quantum setting. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 Cosmo Lupo , Seth Lloyd