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We study information transmission over a fully correlated amplitude damping channel acting on two qubits. We derive the single-shot classical channel capacity and show that entanglement is needed to achieve the channel best performance. We…

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This paper summarizes a quantum algorithm of [R.D. Somma, et.al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 130504 (2008)] that simulates a classical annealing process for solving discrete optimization problems. The complexity of the quantum algorithm scales…

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In recent years, variational quantum algorithms have garnered significant attention as a candidate approach for near-term quantum advantage using noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. In this article we introduce kernel descent,…

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Theoretical estimates of the convergence rate of many well-known gradient-type optimization methods are based on quadratic interpolation, provided that the Lipschitz condition for the gradient is satisfied. In this article we obtain a…

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Degradable quantum channels are an important class of completely positive trace-preserving maps. Among other properties, they offer a single-letter formula for the quantum and the private classical capacity and are characterized by the fact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 David Sutter , Volkher B. Scholz , Andreas Winter , Renato Renner

By using the Choi-Jamio{\l}kowski isomorphism, we propose a well-defined coherence measure of quantum channels based on the generalized $\alpha$-$z$-relative R\'{e}nyi entropy. In addition, we present an alternative coherence measure of…

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Quantum relative entropy, a quantum generalization of the renowned Kullback-Leibler divergence, serves as a fundamental measure of the distinguishability between quantum states and plays a pivotal role in quantum information science.…

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Existing convergence guarantees for the mirror descent algorithm require the objective function to have a bounded gradient or be smooth relative to a Legendre function. The bounded gradient and relative smoothness conditions, however, may…

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