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The design of error-correcting codes used in modern communications relies on information theory to quantify the capacity of a noisy channel to send information [1]. This capacity can be expressed using the mutual information between input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 M. B. Hastings

Here it is shown that the squashed entanglement has an operational meaning -- it is the fastest rate at which a quantum state can be sent between two parties who share arbitrary side-information. Likewise, the entanglement of formation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-04 Jonathan Oppenheim

We propose a new framework for reasoning about information in complex systems. Our foundation is based on a variational extension of Shannon's information theory that takes into account the modeling power and computational constraints of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Yilun Xu , Shengjia Zhao , Jiaming Song , Russell Stewart , Stefano Ermon

The realization of a global quantum network capable of supporting secure communication and other quantum information processing (QIP) tasks hinges on the ability to distribute high-fidelity entanglement across long distances while…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Shashank Shekhar , Md Sohel Mondal , Siddhartha Santra

Quantum communication holds the potential to revolutionize information transmission by enabling secure data exchange that exceeds the limits of classical systems. One of the key performance metrics in quantum information theory, namely the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Hong Niu , Chau Yuen , Alexei Ashikhmin , Lajos Hanzo

Shannon information was defined for characterizing the uncertainty information of classical probabilistic distributions. As an uncertainty measure it is generally believed to be positive. This holds for any information quantity from two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Ming-Xing Luo

We derive a general upper bound to mutual information in terms of the Fisher information. The bound may be further used to derive a lower bound for the Bayesian quadratic cost. These two provide alternatives to other inequalities in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Wojciech Górecki , Xi Lu , Chiara Macchiavello , Lorenzo Maccone

How best one can recycle a given quantum resource, mitigating the various difficulties involved in its preparation and preservation, is of considerable importance for ensuring efficient applications in quantum technology. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-18 Arun Kumar Das , Debarshi Das , Shiladitya Mal , Dipankar Home , A. S. Majumdar

The quantum switch describes a quantum operation in which two or more quantum channels act on a quantum system with the order of application determined by the state of an order quantum system. And by suitably choosing the state of the order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Debarshi Das , Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay

Quantum capacity gives the fundamental limit of information transmission through a channel. However, evaluating the quantum capacities of a continuous-variable bosonic quantum channel, as well as finding an optimal code to achieve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Adam Taylor , Michael Hanks , Hyukjoon Kwon , M. S. Kim

In many different fields of science, it is useful to characterize physical states and processes as resources. Chemistry, thermodynamics, Shannon's theory of communication channels, and the theory of quantum entanglement are prominent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 Bob Coecke , Tobias Fritz , Robert W. Spekkens

The issue of whether non-Markovianity (NM) could be considered as a resource in quantum information has been a subject of intense debate for the last years. Recently, a simple mechanism was proposed in which one of the main features of NM,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Nicolás Mirkin , Pablo Poggi , Diego Wisniacki

We formulate an info-clustering paradigm based on a multivariate information measure, called multivariate mutual information, that naturally extends Shannon's mutual information between two random variables to the multivariate case…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Chung Chan , Ali Al-Bashabsheh , Qiaoqiao Zhou , Tarik Kaced , Tie Liu

Long-distance optical quantum channels are necessarily lossy, leading to errors in transmitted quantum information, entanglement degradation and, ultimately, poor protocol performance. Quantum states carrying information in the channel can…

We give two upper bounds to the mutual information in arbitrary quantum estimation strategies. The first is based on some simple Fourier properties of the estimation apparatus. The second is derived using the first but, interestingly,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Xi Lu , Wojciech Górecki , Chiara Macchiavello , Lorenzo Maccone

As conventional communication systems based on classic information theory have closely approached the limits of Shannon channel capacity, semantic communication has been recognized as a key enabling technology for the further improvement of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jiancheng Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

Quantum broadcasting is central to quantum information processing and characterizes the correlations within quantum states. Nonetheless, traditional quantum broadcasting encounters inherent limitations dictated by the principles of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 Hongshun Yao , Xia Liu , Chengkai Zhu , Xin Wang

Many quantum information measures can be written as an optimization of the quantum relative entropy between sets of states. For example, the relative entropy of entanglement of a state is the minimum relative entropy to the set of separable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-09 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi

The famous Shannon impossibility result says that any encryption scheme with perfect secrecy requires a secret key at least as long as the message. In this paper we provide its quantum analogue with imperfect secrecy and imperfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Ching-Yi Lai , Kai-Min Chung

The coding theorem for the entanglement-assisted communication via infinite-dimensional quantum channel with linear constraint is extended to a natural degree of generality. Relations between the entanglement-assisted classical capacity and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. S. Holevo , M. E. Shirokov