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We analyze a task in which classical and quantum messages are simultaneously communicated via a noisy quantum channel, assisted with a limited amount of shared entanglement. We derive direct and converse bounds for the one-shot capacity…

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The first step in quantum information theory is the identification of entanglement as a valuable resource. The next step is learning how to exploit this resource efficiently. We learn how to exploit entanglement efficiently by applying…

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Quantum channel discrimination is a fundamental task in quantum information processing. In the one-shot regime, discrimination between two candidate channels is characterized by the diamond norm. Beyond this basic setting, however, many…

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We derive a novel chain rule for a family of channel conditional entropies, covering von Neumann and sandwiched R\'{e}nyi entropies. In the process, we show that these channel conditional entropies are equal to their regularized version,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Amir Arqand , Ernest Y. -Z. Tan

Quantum communication is an important branch of quantum information science, promising unconditional security to classical communication and providing the building block of a future large-scale quantum network. Noise in realistic quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-24 Kyungjoo Noh , Stefano Pirandola , Liang Jiang

In this study, we uncover the intrinsic information processes in non-Hermitian quantum systems and their thermodynamic effects. We demonstrate that these systems can exhibit negative entropy production, making them potential candidates for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-09 Kui Cao , Qian Du , Su-Peng Kou

As one of the potential key technologies of 6G, semantic communication is still in its infancy and there are many open problems, such as semantic entropy definition and semantic channel coding theory. To address these challenges, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Shuai Ma , Chuanhui Zhang , Huayan Qi , Hang Li , Yue Bi , Guangming Shi , Naofal Al-Dhahir

We simplify some conjectures in quantum information theory; the additivity of minimal output entropy, the multiplicativity of maximal output p-norm and the superadditivity of convex closure of output entropy. We construct a unital channel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-21 Motohisa Fukuda

Among the most fundamental questions in the manipulation of quantum resources such as entanglement is the possibility of reversibly transforming all resource states. The key consequence of this would be the identification of a unique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Bartosz Regula , Ludovico Lami

Quantum systems may contain underlying correlations which are inaccessible to computationally bounded observers. We capture this distinction through a framework that analyses bipartite states only using efficiently implementable quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Álvaro Yángüez , Noam Avidan , Jan Kochanowski , Thomas A. Hahn

This article provides an elementary introduction to Gaussian channels and their capacities. We review results on the classical, quantum, and entanglement assisted capacities and discuss related entropic quantities as well as additivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-15 J. Eisert , M. M. Wolf

We study information storage in noisy quantum registers and computers using the methods of statistical dynamics. We develop the concept of a strictly contractive quantum channel in order to construct mathematical models of physically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Maxim Raginsky

Understanding quantum channels and the strange behavior of their capacities is a key objective of quantum information theory. Here we study a remarkably simple, low-dimensional, single-parameter family of quantum channels with exotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Felix Leditzky , Debbie Leung , Vikesh Siddhu , Graeme Smith , John A. Smolin

The additivity of the minimal output entropy and that of the $\chi$-capacity are known to be equivalent for finite-dimensional irreducibly covariant channels. In this paper we formulate a list of conditions allowing to establish similar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 A. S. Holevo

We use the smooth entropy approach to treat the problems of binary quantum hypothesis testing and the transmission of classical information through a quantum channel. We provide lower and upper bounds on the optimal type II error of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-11 Nilanjana Datta , Milan Mosonyi , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Fernando G. S. L. Brandao

This is the continuation of cond-mat/0505084. Elementary formulas are derived for the flow of entropy through a circuit junction in a near-critical quantum circuit, based on the structure of the energy-momentum tensor at the junction. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-01 Daniel Friedan

To what extent do thermodynamic resource theories capture physically relevant constraints? Inspired by quantum computation, we define a set of elementary thermodynamic gates that only act on 2 energy levels of a system at a time. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Matteo Lostaglio , Álvaro M. Alhambra , Christopher Perry

We introduce a model of non-Gaussian quantum channel that stems from the combination of two physically relevant processes occurring in open quantum systems, namely amplitude damping and dephasing. For it we find input states approaching…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Laleh Memarzadeh , Stefano Mancini

Environmental interactions are ubiquitous in any real-world application of a quantum information processing protocol. Such interactions result in depletion of quantum resources. Two important figure of merits in the context of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Tapaswini Patro , Kaushiki Mukherjee , Nirman Ganguly