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Remote quantum entanglement can enable numerous applications including distributed quantum computation, secure communication, and precision sensing. In this paper, we consider how a quantum network-nodes equipped with limited quantum…

The evolution of quantum computing technologies has been advancing at a steady pace in the recent years, and the current trend suggests that it will become available at scale for commercial purposes in the near future. The acceleration can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

Practical implementations of quantum information-theoretic applications rely on phase coherences between systems. These coherences are disturbed by misalignment between phase references. Quantum states carrying phase-asymmetry act as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Varun Narasimhachar , Gilad Gour

Quantum computers provide a fundamentally new computing paradigm that promises to revolutionize our ability to solve broad classes of problems. Surprisingly, the basic mathematical structures of gate-based quantum computing, such as unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Brian R. La Cour , S. Andrew Lanham , Corey I. Ostrove

Traditional session types prescribe bidirectional communication protocols for concurrent computations, where well-typed programs are guaranteed to adhere to the protocols. However, simple session types cannot capture properties beyond the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ankush Das , Frank Pfenning

We study the communication capabilities of a quantum channel under the most general channel model known as the one-shot model. Unlike classical channels that can only be used to transmit classical information (bits), a quantum channel can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Farzin Salek , Anurag Anshu , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Rahul Jain , Javier R. Fonollosa

This article suggests that thinking about the role of reference frames can provide new insight into Extended Wigner's Friend scenarios. This involves appealing to symmetries to make a principled distinction between properties of a system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Emily Adlam

We define a new notion of information cost for quantum protocols, and a corresponding notion of quantum information complexity for bipartite quantum channels, and then investigate the properties of such quantities. These are the fully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-16 Dave Touchette

We present a quantum repeater protocol for distributing entanglement over long distances, where a dedicated communication stage enables trial rates not limited by the travel time between repeater nodes. To accomplish this, each node…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Adam Kinos , Andreas Walther , Stefan Kröll , Lars Rippe

We present a framework for quantifying information flow within general quantum processes. For this purpose, we introduce the signaling power of quantum channels and discuss its relevant operational properties. This function supports…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Leonardo S. V. Santos , Zhen-Peng Xu , Jyrki Piilo , Otfried Gühne

In communication complexity, a number of distant parties have the task of calculating a distributed function of their inputs, while minimizing the amount of communication between them. It is known that with quantum resources, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-12 Philippe Allard Guérin , Adrien Feix , Mateus Araújo , Časlav Brukner

Quantum computing promises speedup of classical algorithms in the long term. Current hardware is unable to support this goal and programs must be efficiently compiled to use of the devices through reduction of qubits used, gate count and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Andrew Litteken , Jonathan M. Baker , Frederic T. Chong

Despite the rich literature on quantum algorithms, there is a surprisingly small amount of coverage of their concrete logical design and implementation. Most resource estimation is done at the level of complexity analysis, but actual…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Jonathan M. Smith , Neil J. Ross , Peter Selinger , Benoît Valiron

Qubit allocation is a process to assign physical qubits to logical qubits in a quantum program. Since some quantum computers have connectivity constraints on applications of two-qubit operations, it is mainly concerned with finding an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ryo Wakizaka , Atsushi Igarashi

Quantum coherence quantifies the amount of superposition in a quantum system, and is the reason and resource behind several phenomena and technologies. It depends on the natural basis in which the quantum state of the system is expressed,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Ingita Banerjee , Kornikar Sen , Chirag Srivastava , Ujjwal Sen

By transmitting task-related information only, semantic communications yield significant performance gains over conventional communications. However, the lack of mature semantic theory about semantic information quantification and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Lei Yan , Zhijin Qin , Chunfeng Li , Rui Zhang , Yongzhao Li , Xiaoming Tao

The emerging paradigm of distributed quantum computing promises a potential solution to scaling quantum computing to currently unfeasible dimensions. While this approach itself is still in its infancy, and many obstacles must still be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Leo Sünkel , Jonas Stein , Maximilian Zorn , Thomas Gabor , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

In a recent Letter [G. Chiribella et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 120501 (2007)], four protocols were proposed to secretly transmit a reference frame. Here We point out that in these protocols an eavesdropper can change the transmitted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fei Gao , Fen-Zhuo Guo , Qiao-Yan Wen , Fu-Chen Zhu

Quantum resources, such as coherence, discord, and entanglement, play as a key role for demonstrating advantage in many computation and communication tasks. In order to find the nature behind these resources, tremendous efforts have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Hongyi Zhou , Xiao Yuan , Xiongfeng Ma

We study quantum communication protocols, in which the players' storage starts out in a state where one qubit is in a pure state, and all other qubits are totally mixed (i.e. in a random state), and no other storage is available (for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Hartmut Klauck , Debbie Lim