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The quantum relative entropy is a measure of the distinguishability of two quantum states, and it is a unifying concept in quantum information theory: many information measures such as entropy, conditional entropy, mutual information, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 Mark M. Wilde

We study when local reduced density operators, viewed as quantum marginals, can be assembled into a global quantum state with a prescribed Markov structure. The starting point is a canonical logarithmic construction $T(\mathcal R)$, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Steffen Lauritzen , Piotr Zwiernik

We provide a sphere-packing lower bound for the optimal error probability in finite blocklengths when coding over a symmetric classical-quantum channel. Our result shows that the pre-factor can be significantly improved from the order of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 Hao-Chung Cheng , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Marco Tomamichel

One of the challenges in practical quantum key distribution is dealing with efficiency mismatch between different threshold single-photon detectors. There are known bounds for the secret key rate for the BB84 protocol with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 M. K. Bochkov , A. S. Trushechkin

In this work we study the single-shot performance of higher dimensional hypergraph product codes decoded using belief-propagation and ordered-statistics decoding [Panteleev and Kalachev, 2021]. We find that decoding data qubit and syndrome…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Oscar Higgott , Nikolas P. Breuckmann

In this paper will be presented methodology of encoding information in valuations of discrete lattice with some translational invariant constrains in asymptotically optimal way. The method is based on finding statistical description of such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-11-02 Jarek Duda

Unitarity provides mathematical and physical constraints on quantum information systems. e.g., in entanglement swapping, unitarity requires the same von Neumann entanglement entropy generation for either a particle interaction or an act of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-24 Shanmuka Shivashankara , Hobbes Sprague

The quantum relative entropy is a measure of the distinguishability of two quantum states, and it is a unifying concept in quantum information theory: many information measures such as entropy, conditional entropy, mutual information, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-13 Mark M. Wilde

The problem of computing a linear combination of sources over a multiple access channel is studied. Inner and outer bounds on the optimal tradeoff between the communication rates are established when encoding is restricted to random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Pinar Sen , Sung Hoon Lim , Young-Han Kim

Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI) promises superpolynomial speedups for structured optimization; however, its practical realization is often hindered by significant sensitivity to hardware noise and spectral dispersion. To bridge this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Fumin Wang

Retrieving classical information encoded in optical modes is at the heart of many quantum information processing tasks, especially in the field of quantum communication and sensing. Yet, despite its importance, the fundamental limits of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Ignatius William Primaatmaja , Asaph Ho , Valerio Scarani

Data-processing is a desired property of classical and quantum divergences and information measures. In information theory, the contraction coefficient measures how much the distinguishability of quantum states decreases when they are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Theshani Nuradha , Ian George , Christoph Hirche

Quantum communication enables the implementation of tasks that are unachievable with classical resources. However, losses on the communication channel preclude the direct long-distance transmission of quantum information in many relevant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Boxi Li , Tim Coopmans , David Elkouss

We introduce a new analysis technique to derive a single-letter upper bound on the mismatch capacity of a stationary, single-user, memoryless channel with a decoding metric $q$. Our bound is obtained by considering a multicast transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Anelia Somekh-Baruch

Quantum transport on structured networks is strongly influenced by interference effects, which can dramatically modify how information propagates through a system. We develop a quantum-information-theoretic framework for scattering on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Giuseppe Catalano , Farzad Kianvash , Vittorio Giovannetti

This paper investigates the problem of variable-length lossy source coding allowing a positive excess distortion probability and an overflow probability of codeword lengths. Novel one-shot achievability and converse bounds of the optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Shota Saito , Hideki Yagi , Toshiyasu Matsushima

In this paper, we aim to replace in the definitions of covariance and correlation the usual trace {\rm Tr} by a tracial positive map between unital $C^*$-algebras and to replace the functions $x^{\alpha}$ and $x^{1-\alpha}$ by functions $f$…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Ali Dadkhah , Mohammad Sal Moslehian , Kenjiro Yanagi

This dissertation investigates relative entropies, also called generalized divergences, and how they can be used to characterize information-theoretic tasks in quantum information theory. The main goal is to further refine characterizations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Felix Leditzky

We use a combination of analytical and numerical techniques to calculate the noise threshold and resource requirements for a linear optical quantum computing scheme based on parity-state encoding. Parity-state encoding is used at the lowest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. J. F. Hayes , H. L. Haselgrove , Alexei Gilchrist , T. C. Ralph

We addressed the question of optimality of private quantum channels. We have shown that the Shannon entropy of the classical key necessary to securely transfer the quantum information is lower bounded by the entropy exchange of the private…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jan Bouda , Mario Ziman