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The efficiency of parameter estimation of quantum channels is studied in this paper. We introduce the concept of programmable parameters to the theory of estimation. It is found that programmable parameters obey the standard quantum limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-17 Zhengfeng Ji , Guoming Wang , Runyao Duan , Yuan Feng , Mingsheng Ying

Extensive research has been dedicated to the asymptotic theory of quantum metrology, where the goal is to determine the ultimate precision limit of quantum channel estimation when many accesses to the channel are allowed. The ultimate limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Qiushi Liu , Yuxiang Yang

This tutorial introduces a systematic approach for addressing the key question of quantum metrology: For a generic task of sensing an unknown parameter, what is the ultimate precision given a constrained set of admissible strategies. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Qiushi Liu , Zihao Hu , Haidong Yuan , Yuxiang Yang

Conventional computers have evolved to device components that demonstrate failure rates of 1e-17 or less, while current quantum computing devices typically exhibit error rates of 1e-2 or greater. This raises concerns about the reliability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 Samudra Dasgupta , Travis S. Humble

Quantum channels model many physical processes. For this reason, hypothesis testing between quantum channels is a fundamental task in quantum information theory. Here we consider the paradigmatic case of channel position finding, where the…

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

The rapid development of the quantum technology presents huge opportunities for 6G communications. Leveraging the quantum properties of highly excited Rydberg atoms, Rydberg atom-based antennas present distinct advantages, such as high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Bokai Xu , Jiayi Zhang , Zhongtao Chen , Bingyang Cheng , Ziheng Liu , Yik-Chung Wu , Bo Ai

In many natural and engineered systems, unknown quantum channels act on a subsystem that cannot be directly controlled and measured, but is instead learned through a controllable subsystem that weakly interacts with it. We study quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-06 Sho Sugiura , Arkopal Dutt , William J. Munro , Sina Zeytinoğlu , Isaac L. Chuang

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

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 propose super-resolution MIMO channel estimators for millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems that employ hybrid analog and digital beamforming and generalized spatial modulation, respectively. Exploiting the inherent sparsity of mmWave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Hongyun Chu , Le Zheng , Xiaodong Wang

We study distributed similarity estimation of quantum channels (DSEC), a primitive for cross-platform verification where two remote quantum devices are compared by estimating the inner product of their Choi states. We show that the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Congcong Zheng , Kun Wang , Xutao Yu , Ping Xu , Zaichen Zhang

Quantum sensing harnesses the unique properties of quantum systems to enable precision measurements of physical quantities such as time, magnetic and electric fields, acceleration, and gravitational gradients well beyond the limits of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Ivana Nikoloska , Ruud Van Sloun , Osvaldo Simeone

This paper introduces a method for calculating the quantum relative entropy of channels, an essential quantity in quantum channel discrimination and resource theories of quantum channels. By building on recent developments in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Gereon Koßmann , Mark M. Wilde

We study a broad class of quantum process discrimination problems that can handle many optimization strategies such as the Bayes, Neyman-Pearson, and unambiguous strategies, where each process can consist of multiple time steps and can have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Kenji Nakahira , Kentaro Kato

We consider the problem of channel estimation for uplink multiuser massive MIMO systems, where, in order to significantly reduce the hardware cost and power consumption, one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are used at the base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Feiyu Wang , Jun Fang , Hongbin Li , Shaoqian Li

Adaptive feedback schemes are promising for quantum-enhanced measurements yet are complicated to design. Machine learning can autonomously generate algorithms in a classical setting. Here we adapt machine learning for quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-25 Alexander Hentschel , Barry C. Sanders

A quantum channel models the interaction between the system we are interested in and its environment. Such a model can capture the main features of the interaction but because of the complexity of the environment we can not assume that it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Gábor Balló , Péter Gurin

The characterisation of Quantum Channel Discrimination (QCD) offers critical insight for future quantum technologies in quantum metrology, sensing and communications. The task of multi-channel discrimination creates a scenario in which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Cillian Harney , Stefano Pirandola

The development of quantum image representation and quantum measurement techniques has made quantum image processing research a hot topic. In this paper, a novel Adaptive Quantum Scaling Model (AQSM) is first proposed for scrambling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Zheng Xing , Chan-Tong Lam , Xiaochen Yuan , Sio-Kei Im , Penousal Machado

Quantum phase estimation is a central primitive in quantum algorithms and sensing, where performance is governed by the sensitivity of measurement signals to the target parameter. While existing methods have developed increasingly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Zikang Jia , Suying Liu , Yulong Dong