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Unextendibility of quantum states and channels is inextricably linked to the no-cloning theorem of quantum mechanics, it has played an important role in understanding and quantifying entanglement, and more recently it has found applications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Vishal Singh , Theshani Nuradha , Mark M. Wilde

We present an upper bound for the quantum channel capacity that is both additive and convex. Our bound can be interpreted as the capacity of a channel for high-fidelity quantum communication when assisted by a family of channels that have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-28 Graeme Smith , John A. Smolin , Andreas Winter

We study the performance of a partially correlated amplitude damping channel acting on two qubits. We derive lower bounds for the single-shot classical capacity by studying two kinds of quantum ensembles, one which allows to maximize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 A. D'Arrigo , G. Benenti , G. Falci , C. Macchiavello

Reliable distribution of quantum entanglement over long distances is a central challenge in quantum information science, fundamentally limited by decoherence in noisy communication channels. In this work, we investigate the asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Piotr Masajada , Aby Philip , Alexander Streltsov

We introduce a quantum packing bound on the minimal resources required by nondegenerate error correction codes for any kind of noise. We prove that degenerate codes can outperform nondegenerate ones in the presence of correlated noise, by…

Channel coding for discrete memoryless channels (DMCs) with mean and variance cost constraints has been recently introduced. We show that there is an improvement in coding performance due to cost variability, both with and without feedback.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Adeel Mahmood , Aaron B. Wagner

A crucial insight for practical quantum error correction is that different types of errors, such as single-qubit Pauli operators, typically occur with different probabilities. Finding an optimal quantum code under such biased noise is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Junyu Fan , Matthew Steinberg , Alexander Jahn , Chunjun Cao , Sebastian Feld

A strong converse bound for the classical identification capacity of a quantum channel is an upper bound on the asymptotic identification rate of classical messages sent through the channel, such that, above this rate, the probability of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Liuhang Ye , Bjarne Bergh , Nilanjana Datta

This paper considers rateless network error correction codes for reliable multicast in the presence of adversarial errors. Most existing network error correction codes are designed for a given network capacity and maximum number of errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-15 Wentao Huang , Tracey Ho , Hongyi Yao , Sidharth Jaggi

We analyze the practical performance of quantum polar codes, by computing rigorous bounds on block error probability and by numerically simulating them. We evaluate our bounds for quantum erasure channels with coding block lengths between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Zachary Dutton , Saikat Guha , Mark M. Wilde

We prove by construction that the Bravyi-Poulin-Terhal bound on the spatial density of stabilizer codes does not generalize to stabilizer circuits. To do so, we construct a fault tolerant quantum computer with a coding rate above 5% and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Craig Gidney , Thiago Bergamaschi

Information theory tells us that if the rate of sending information across a noisy channel were above the capacity of that channel, then the transmission would necessarily be unreliable. For classical information sent over classical or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-22 Naresh Sharma , Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi

We consider the problem of fault-tolerant quantum computation in the presence of slow error diagnostics, either caused by measurement latencies or slow decoding algorithms. Our scheme offers a few improvements over previously existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-08 Christopher Chamberland , Pavithran Iyer , David Poulin

Channel output quantization plays a vital role in high-speed emerging memories such as the spin-torque transfer magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM), where high-precision analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are not applicable. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Zhen Mei , Kui Cai , Long Shi

Recent progress in quantum computing has enabled systems with tens of reliable logical qubits, built from thousands of noisy physical qubits. However, many impactful applications demand quantum computations with millions of logical qubits,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Daiki Komoto , Kenta Kasai

Capacity formulas and random-coding exponents are derived for a generalized family of Gel'fand-Pinsker coding problems. These exponents yield asymptotic upper bounds on the achievable log probability of error. In our model, information is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Pierre Moulin , Ying Wang

Upper and lower bounds are given for the number of equivalence classes of error patterns in the toric code for quantum memory. The results are used to derive a lower bound on the ground-state energy of the +/-J Ising spin glass model on the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Hidetoshi Nishimori , Peter Sollich

We determine both the quantum and the private capacities of low-noise quantum channels to leading orders in the channel's distance to the perfect channel. It has been an open problem for more than 20 years to determine the capacities of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Felix Leditzky , Debbie Leung , Graeme Smith

We analyze the quantum capacity of a unital quantum channel, using ideas from the proof of near-optimality of Petz recovery map [Barnum and Knill 2000] and give an upper bound on the quantum capacity in terms of regularized output $2$-norm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 Anurag Anshu

In the context of measurement-based quantum computation a way of maintaining the coherence of a graph state is to measure its stabilizer operators. Aside from performing quantum error correction, it is possible to exploit the information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Davide Orsucci , Markus Tiersch , Hans J. Briegel