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Designing encoding and decoding circuits to reliably send messages over many uses of a noisy channel is a central problem in communication theory. When studying the optimal transmission rates achievable with asymptotically vanishing error…

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This paper deals with arbitrarily distributed finite-power input signals observed through an additive Gaussian noise channel. It shows a new formula that connects the input-output mutual information and the minimum mean-square error (MMSE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Dongning Guo , Shlomo Shamai , Sergio Verdu

We give a survey of the two remarkable analytical problems of quantum information theory. The main part is a detailed report of the recent (partial) solution of the quantum Gaussian optimizers problem which establishes an optimal property…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-04 A. S. Holevo

Recently, the Gaussian optimizer conjecture in quantum information theory was confirmed for bosonic Gaussian gauge-covariant or contravariant channels. These results use the i.i.d. model of the quantum noise. In this paper we consider…

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

The minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) is one of the most popular criteria for Bayesian estimation. Conversely, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is a typical performance criterion in communications, radar, and generally detection theory. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Luca Rugini , Paolo Banelli

We consider the general problem of the quantum noise in a multipixel measurement of an optical image. We first give a precise criterium in order to characterize intrinsic single mode and multimode light. Then, using a transverse mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nicolas Treps , Vincent Delaubert , Agnes Maitre , Jean-Michel Courty , Claude Fabre

In this letter we revisit the problem of optimal design of quantum tomographic experiments. In contrast to previous approaches where an optimal set of measurements is decided in advance of the experiment, we allow for measurements to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Ferenc Huszár , Neil M. T. Houlsby

In this paper we consider the classical capacity problem for Gaussian measurement channels without imposing any kind of threshold condition. We prove Gaussianity of the average state of the optimal ensemble in general and discuss the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-04 A. S. Holevo

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

Shannon's channel coding theorem describes the maximum possible rate of reliable information transfer through a classical noisy communication channel. It, together with the source coding theorem, characterizes lossless channel communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-17 Sristy Agrawal , Rajashik Tarafder , Graeme Smith , Arup Roy , Manik Banik

Mutually unbiased bases determine an optimal set of measurements to extract complete information about the quantum state of a system. However, quite often a priori information about the state exist, making some of the measurement bases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. B. Klimov , G. Bjork , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

Quantum communication theory explores the implications of quantum mechanics to the tasks of information transmission. Many physical channels can be formally described as quantum Gaussian operations acting on bosonic quantum states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Andrea Mari , Vittorio Giovannetti , Alexander S. Holevo

Characterizing how quantum error correction circuits behave under realistic hardware noise is essential for testing the premises that enable scalable fault tolerance. Logical error rates conditioned on syndrome outcomes are needed to enable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Matthew Girling , Ben Criger , Cristina Cirstoiu

Quantum capacity, as the ultimate transmission rate of quantum communication, is characterized by regularized coherent information. In this work, we reformulate approximations of the quantum capacity by operator space norms and give both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Li Gao , Marius Junge , Nicholas LaRacuente

The amount of information that a noisy channel can transmit has been one of the primary subjects of interest in information theory. In this work we consider a practically-motivated family of optical quantum channels that can be implemented…

Overcoming the influence of noise and imperfections in quantum devices is one of the main challenges for viable quantum applications. In this article, we present different protocols, which we denote as "superposed quantum error mitigation",…

Spectator qubits (SQs) for random-telegraph noise mitigation have been proposed by Song et al., Phys. Rev. A, 107, L030601 (2023), where an SQ operates as a noise probe to estimate optimal noise-correction control on the hard-to-access data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Y. Liu , A. Chantasri , H. Song , H. M. Wiseman

Bayesian optimisation has gained great popularity as a tool for optimising the parameters of machine learning algorithms and models. Somewhat ironically, setting up the hyper-parameters of Bayesian optimisation methods is notoriously hard.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-07-01 Ziyu Wang , Nando de Freitas

In this paper, we study Sibson's $\alpha$-mutual information in the context of the additive Gaussian noise channel. While the classical case $\alpha = 1$ is well understood and admits deep connections to estimation-theoretic quantities,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mohammad Milanian , Alex Dytso , Martina Cardone

We consider realistic measurement systems, where measurements are accompanied by decoherence processes. The aim of this work is the construction of methods and algorithms for precise quantum measurements with fidelity close to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Yu. I. Bogdanov , B. I. Bantysh , N. A. Bogdanova , A. B. Kvasnyy , V. F. Lukichev