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Quantum channel estimation and discrimination are fundamentally related information processing tasks of interest in quantum information science. In this paper, we analyze these tasks by employing the right logarithmic derivative Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Vishal Katariya , Mark M. Wilde

Quantum hypothesis testing is an important tool for quantum information processing. Two main strategies have been widely adopted: in a minimum error discrimination strategy, the average error probability is minimized; while in an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Quntao Zhuang

The data processing inequality is the most basic requirement for any meaningful measure of information. It essentially states that distinguishability measures between states decrease if we apply a quantum channel and is the centerpiece of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Christoph Hirche , Cambyse Rouzé , Daniel Stilck França

It is well known that for the discrimination of classical and quantum channels in the finite, non-asymptotic regime, adaptive strategies can give an advantage over non-adaptive strategies. However, Hayashi [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 55(8),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-24 Mark M. Wilde , Mario Berta , Christoph Hirche , Eneet Kaur

The two-way capacities of quantum channels determine the ultimate entanglement and secret-key distribution rates achievable by two distant parties that are connected by a noisy transmission line, in absence of quantum repeaters. Since…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Francesco Anna Mele , Ludovico Lami , Vittorio Giovannetti

Bosonic quantum communication has extensively been analysed in the asymptotic setting, assuming infinite channel uses and vanishing communication errors. Comparatively fewer detailed analyses are available in the non-asymptotic setting,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Francesco Anna Mele , Giovanni Barbarino , Vittorio Giovannetti , Marco Fanizza

We introduce a new framework for quantum channel discrimination in an adversarial setting, where the tester plays against an adversary. We show that in asymmetric hypothesis testing, the optimal type-II error exponent is precisely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Kun Fang , Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi

The optimal performance of a communication network is limited not only by the quality of point-to-point channels, but by the efficacy of its constituent technologies. Understanding the limits of quantum networks requires an understanding of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Cillian Harney , Stefano Pirandola

We investigate the energy-constrained (EC) diamond norm distance between unitary channels acting on possibly infinite-dimensional quantum systems, and establish a number of results. Firstly, we prove that optimal EC discrimination between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-14 Simon Becker , Nilanjana Datta , Ludovico Lami , Cambyse Rouzé

This paper provides novel insights into channel and subspace codes in nonadaptive channel sensing with a single RF chain. Observing that this problem naturally maps to a noncoherent decoding problem, we show that the sensing performance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Parthasarathi Khirwadkar , Robin Rajamäki , Piya Pal

Arbitrarily varying channels offer a powerful framework for analyzing the robustness of quantum communication systems, especially for classical-quantum models, where the analysis displays strengths or weaknesses of specific signal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Janis Nötzel , Florian Seitz

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 quantum capacity of a memoryless channel is often used as a single figure of merit to characterize its ability to transmit quantum information coherently. The capacity determines the maximal rate at which we can code reliably over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Marco Tomamichel , Mario Berta , Joseph M. Renes

Upper bounds on the secret-key-agreement capacity of a quantum channel serve as a way to assess the performance of practical quantum-key-distribution protocols conducted over that channel. In particular, if a protocol employs a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-13 Eneet Kaur , Mark M. Wilde

Measuring stochastic signals ("noise metrology") constitutes a central task in quantum sensing and the characterization of open quantum systems. Here we establish ultimate precision bounds for multiparameter estimation of stochastic signals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Anthony J. Brady , Yu-Xin Wang , Luis Pedro García-Pintos , Alexey V. Gorshkov

The optimized quantum $f$-divergences form a family of distinguishability measures that includes the quantum relative entropy and the sandwiched R\'enyi relative quasi-entropy as special cases. In this paper, we establish physically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Li Gao , Mark M. Wilde

Quantum memories are a crucial precondition in many protocols for processing quantum information. A fundamental problem that illustrates this statement is given by the task of channel discrimination, in which an unknown channel drawn from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Ties-A. Ohst , Shijun Zhang , Hai Chau Nguyen , Martin Plávala , Marco Túlio Quintino

Following initial work by JaJa, Ahlswede and Cai, and inspired by a recent renewed surge in interest in deterministic identification (DI) via noisy channels, we consider the problem in its generality for memoryless channels with finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Pau Colomer , Christian Deppe , Holger Boche , Andreas Winter

We prove the multimode conditional quantum Entropy Power Inequality for bosonic quantum systems. This inequality determines the minimum conditional von Neumann entropy of the output of the most general linear mixing of bosonic quantum modes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Alessandro Falco , Giacomo De Palma

The quantum data processing inequality asserts that two quantum states become harder to distinguish when a noisy channel is applied. On the other hand, a reverse quantum data processing inequality characterizes whether distinguishability is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Paula Belzig , Li Gao , Graeme Smith , Peixue Wu