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Non-unitary protocols are already at the base of many hybrid quantum computing applications, especially in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era where quantum errors typically affect the unitary evolution. However, while the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Giuseppe Clemente , Kevin Zambello

In the theory of quantum information, the mixed-unitary quantum channels, for any positive integer dimension $n$, are those linear maps that can be expressed as a convex combination of conjugations by $n\times n$ complex unitary matrices.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 Mark Girard , Debbie Leung , Jeremy Levick , Chi-Kwong Li , Vern Paulsen , Yiu Tung Poon , John Watrous

The measurement outcomes of two incompatible observables on a particle can be precisely predicted when it is maximally entangled with a quantum memory, as quantified recently [Nature Phys. 6, 659 (2010)]. We explore the behavior of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-26 Z. Y. Xu , W. L. Yang , M. Feng

It is known that the existence of memory effect can revive quantum correlations in open system dynamics. In this regard, the backflow of information from environment to the system can be identified with Complete Positive (CP) indivisibility…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Anumita Mukhopadhyay , Praggnyamita Ghosh , Shibdas Roy

We analyze quantum communication properties of phase-covariant channels depending on their degree of non-unitality. In particular, we derive analytical formulas for minimal and maximal channel fidelity on pure states and maximal output…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Katarzyna Siudzińska , Michał Studziński

We consider quantum-memory assisted protocols for discriminating quantum channels. We show that for optimal discrimination of memory channels, memory assisted protocols are needed. This leads to a new notion of distance for channels with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-21 Giulio Chiribella , Giacomo M. D'Ariano , Paolo Perinotti

We show that any unital qubit channel can be implemented by letting the input system interact unitarily with a $4$-dimensional environment in the maximally mixed state and then tracing out the environment. We also provide an example where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-17 Alexander Müller-Hermes , Christopher Perry

We investigate the possibility of dividing quantum channels into concatenations of other channels, thereby studying the semigroup structure of the set of completely-positive trace-preserving maps. We show the existence of 'indivisible'…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Michael M. Wolf , J. Ignacio Cirac

Entanglement-breaking channels (equivalently, measure-and-prepare channels) are an important class of quantum operations noted for their ability to destroy multipartite spatial quantum correlations. Inspired by this property, they have also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Lucas B. Vieira , Huan-Yu Ku , Costantino Budroni

In the problem of quantum channel discrimination, one distinguishes between a given number of quantum channels, which is done by sending an input state through a channel and measuring the output state. This work studies applications of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 Andrey Kardashin , Anna Vlasova , Anastasiia Pervishko , Dmitry Yudin , Jacob Biamonte

It is established that both discrete and continuous semigroups of unital quantum channels are eventually mixed unitary. This result is novel even for the subclass of Schur maps and stands in sharp contrast to the resolution of the…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2026-02-10 B V Rajarama Bhat , Repana Devendra

With increasing communication rates via quantum channels, memory effects become unavoidable whenever the use rate of the channel is comparable to the typical relaxation time of the channel environment. We introduce a model of a bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Cosmo Lupo , Vittorio Giovannetti , Stefano Mancini

Recently, Xu et al. [Phys. Rev. A 86, 012113(2012)] explored the behavior of the entropic uncertainty relation under the influence of local unital and nonunital noisy channels for a class of Bell-diagonal states. We here reform their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Youneng Guo , Maofa Fang , Ke Zeng

In this paper we address the issue of universal or robust communication over quantum channels. Specifically, we consider memoryless communication scenario with channel uncertainty which is an analog of compound channel in classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Bjelakovic , H. Boche , J. Noetzel

The study of memory effects in quantum channels helps in developing characterization methods for open quantum systems and strategies for quantum error correction. Two main sets of channels exist, corresponding to system dynamics with no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 S. A. Uriri , F. Wudarski , I. Sinayskiy , F. Petruccione , M. S. Tame

Quantum dots are nanometer-scale semiconductor particles that exhibit size-dependent quantum mechanical properties. In this work, we investigate the dynamics of quantum correlations, quantified by the concurrence and the quantum coherence,…

The maximum rates for information transmission through noisy quantum channels has primarily been developed for memoryless channels, where the noise on each transmitted state is treated as independent. Many real world communication channels…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Garry Bowen , Igor Devetak , Stefano Mancini

Using the axiomatic definition of the coherence measure, such as the $l_{1}$ norm and the relative entropy, we study the phenomena of two-qubit system quantum coherence through quantum channels where successive uses of the channels are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 You-neng Guo , Ke Zeng , Qing-long Tian , Zheng-da Li

The quantum channels with memory, known as non-Markovian channels, are of crucial importance for a realistic description of a variety of physical systems, and pave ways for new methods of decoherence control by manipulating the properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Javid Naikoo , Subhashish Banerjee , C. M. Chandrashekar

Random (mixed) unitary channels describe an important subset of quantum channels, which are commonly used in quantum information, noise modeling, and quantum error mitigation. Despite their usefulness, there is substantial complexity in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Scott E. Smart , Alexander Jürgens , Joseph Peetz , Prineha Narang