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Optimally encoding classical information in a quantum system is one of the oldest and most fundamental challenges of quantum information theory. Holevo's bound places a hard upper limit on such encodings, while the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-28 Dawei Ding , Hrant Gharibyan , Patrick Hayden , Michael Walter

Optimization methods aimed at estimating the capacities of a general Gaussian channel are developed. Specifically evaluation of classical capacity as maximum of the Holevo information is pursued over all possible Gaussian encodings for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-12 Oleg V. Pilyavets , Cosmo Lupo , Stefano Mancini

Emergence of objective, classical properties in quantum systems can be described in the modern language of quantum information theory. In this work, we present an example of such an analysis. We apply the quantum channel theory to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Tae-Hun Lee , Jarosław K. Korbicz

We investigate the quantitative relationship between operator spreading and classical information propagation in quantum systems. Focusing on a bi-partite quantum channel, we derive new upper and lower bounds on the Holevo capacity, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Cheng Shang , Zhi-Guang Lu , Hayato Kinkawa , Tomotaka Kuwahara

Quantum theory imposes fundamental limitations to the amount of information that can be carried by any quantum system. On the one hand, Holevo bound rules out the possibility to encode more information in a quantum system than in its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Michele Dall'Arno

We prove a new version of the Holevo bound employing the Hilbert-Schmidt norm instead of the Kullback-Leibler divergence. Suppose Alice is sending classical information to Bob using a quantum channel, while Bob is performing some projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-27 Boaz Tamir , Eliahu Cohen

We study the problem of decoding classical information encoded on quantum states at the output of a quantum channel, with particular focus on increasing the communication rates towards the maximum allowed by Quantum Mechanics. After a brief…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Matteo Rosati

In this work we improve the quantum communication rates of various quantum channels of interest using permutation-invariant quantum codes. We focus in particular on parametrized families of quantum channels and aim to improve bounds on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Sujeet Bhalerao , Felix Leditzky

A model of quantum noisy channel with input encoding by a classical random vector is described. An equation of optimality is derived to determine a complete set of wave functions describing quantum decodings based on quasi-measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Belavkin , R. L. Stratonovich

Quantum and private communications are affected by a fundamental limitation which severely restricts the optimal rates that are achievable by two distant parties. To overcome this problem, one needs to introduce quantum repeaters and, more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-30 Stefano Pirandola

We find a tight upper bound for the classical capacity of quantum thermal noise channels that is within $1/\ln 2$ bits of Holevo's lower bound. This lower bound is achievable using unentangled, classical signal states, namely displaced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Robert Koenig , Graeme Smith

I derive a universal upper bound on the capacity of any communication channel between two distant systems. The Holevo quantity, and hence the mutual information, is at most of order $E \Delta t / \hbar$, where $E$ is the average energy of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 Raphael Bousso

A major challenge of today's quantum communication systems lies in the transmission of quantum information with high rates over long distances in the presence of unavoidable losses. Thereby the achievable quantum communication rate is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-22 Andreas Christ , Cosmo Lupo , Christine Silberhorn

We study non-asymptotic fundamental limits for transmitting classical information over memoryless quantum channels, i.e. we investigate the amount of classical information that can be transmitted when a quantum channel is used a finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Marco Tomamichel , Vincent Y. F. Tan

A hybrid quantum-classical algorithm is a computational scheme in which quantum circuits are used to extract information that is then processed by a classical routine to guide subsequent quantum operations. These algorithms are especially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Alon Levi , Ziv Ossi , Eliahu Cohen , Amit Te'eni

There are various ways to quantify the communication capabilities of a quantum channel. In this work we study the communication value (cv) of channel, which describes the optimal success probability of transmitting a randomly selected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Eric Chitambar , Ian George , Brian Doolittle , Marius Junge

An example is given of a qubit quantum channel which requires four inputs to maximize the Holevo capacity. The example is one of a family of channels which are related to 3-state channels. The capacity of the product channel is studied and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masahito Hayashi , Hiroshi Imai , Keiji Matsumoto , Mary Beth Ruskai , Toshiyuki Shimono

In classical information theory, the Doeblin coefficient of a classical channel provides an efficiently computable upper bound on the total-variation contraction coefficient of the channel, leading to what is known as a strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Ian George , Christoph Hirche , Theshani Nuradha , Mark M. Wilde

The Holevo quantity provides an upper bound for the mutual information between the sender of a classical message encoded in quantum carriers and the receiver. Applying the strong sub-additivity of entropy we prove that the Holevo quantity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Wojciech Roga , Mark Fannes , Karol Zyczkowski

We consider the scenario of classical communication over a finite-dimensional quantum channel with memory using a separable-state input ensemble and local output measurements. We propose algorithms for estimating the information rate of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Michael X. Cao , Pascal O. Vontobel