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Optical communication channels are ultimately quantum-mechanical in nature, and we must therefore look beyond classical information theory to determine their communication capacity as well as to find efficient encoding and decoding schemes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Felipe Lacerda , Joseph M. Renes , Volkher B. Scholz

The transmission of classical information over a classical channel gave rise to the classical capacity theorem with the optimal rate in terms of the classical mutual information. Despite classical information being a subset of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Zahra Baghali Khanian

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

Consider a memoryless degraded broadcast channel (DBC) in which the channel output is a single-letter function of the channel input and the channel noise. As examples, for the Gaussian broadcast channel (BC) this single-letter function is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-25 Bike Xie , Thomas Courtade , Richard D. Wesel

The aim of this work is to study the zero-error capacity of pure-state classical-quantum channels in the setting of list decoding. We provide an achievability bound for list-size two and a converse bound holding for every fixed list size.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Marco Dalai , Filippo Girardi , Ludovico Lami

We study an analog of the well-known Gel'fand Pinsker Channel which uses quantum states for the transmission of the data. We consider the case where both the sender's inputs to the channel and the channel states are to be taken from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Holger Boche , Ning Cai , Janis Nötzel

High-dimensional entanglement with spatial modes of light promises increased security and information capacity over quantum channels. Unfortunately, entanglement decays due to perturbations, corrupting quantum links which cannot be repaired…

Communication over a random-parameter quantum channel when the decoder is required to reconstruct the parameter sequence is considered. We study scenarios that include either strictly-causal, causal, or non-causal channel side information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Uzi Pereg

Recent progress in quantum computing has enabled systems with tens of reliable logical qubits, built from thousands of noisy physical qubits. However, many impactful applications demand quantum computations with millions of logical qubits,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Daiki Komoto , Kenta Kasai

Random access codes (RACs) are used by a party to despite limited communication access an arbitrary subset of information held by another party. Quantum resources are known to enable RACs that break classical limitations. Here, we study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Armin Tavakoli , Alley Hameedi , Breno Marques , Mohamed Bourennane

We consider classical message transmission under entanglement assistance for compound memoryless and arbitrarily varying quantum channels. In both cases, we prove general coding theorems together with corresponding weak converse bounds. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 Holger Boche , Gisbert Janßen , Stephan Kaltenstadler

A recent method to certify the classical capacity of quantum communication channels is applied for general damping channels in finite dimension. The method compares the mutual information obtained by coding on the computational and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-23 Chiara Macchiavello , Massimiliano F. Sacchi , Tito Sacchi

We revisit the question of universality in quantum computing and propose a new paradigm. Instead of forcing a physical system to enact a predetermined set of universal gates (e.g., single-qubit operations and CNOT), we focus on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 D. Bacon , J. Kempe , D. P. DiVincenzo , D. A. Lidar , K. B. Whaley

One-way quantum computing achieves the full power of quantum computation by performing single particle measurements on some many-body entangled state, known as the resource state. As single particle measurements are relatively easy to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Jianxin Chen , Xie Chen , Runyao Duan , Zhengfeng Ji , Bei Zeng

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 introduce a new quantum communication protocol for the transmission of quantum information under collective noise. Our protocol utilizes a decoherence-free subspace in such a way that an optimal asymptotic transmission rate is achieved,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 Michael Skotiniotis , Wolfgang Dür , Barbara Kraus

Quantum memories can be regarded as quantum channels that transmit information through time without moving it through space. Aiming at a reliable storage of information we may thus not only encode at the beginning and decode at the end, but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-23 Alexander Müller-Hermes , David Reeb , Michael M. Wolf

Superdense coding promises increased classical capacity and communication security but this advantage may be undermined by noise in the quantum channel. We present a numerical study of how forward error correction (FEC) applied to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Ronald J. Sadlier , Travis S. Humble

We propose a general method to operationally quantify the resourcefulness of quantum channels via channel discrimination, an important information processing task. A main result is that the maximum success probability of distinguishing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Lu Li , Kaifeng Bu , Zi-Wen Liu

Quantum resources, such as entanglement or quantum communication, offer significant communication advantages in information processing. We develop an operational framework for realizing these communication advantages in resource-constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Brian Doolittle , Felix Leditzky , Eric Chitambar