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Coding theorems in quantum Shannon theory express the ultimate rates at which a sender can transmit information over a noisy quantum channel. More often than not, the known formulas expressing these transmission rates are intractable,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-15 Kamil Bradler , Patrick Hayden , Dave Touchette , Mark M. Wilde

Dense coding is arguably the protocol that launched the field of quantum communication. Today, however, more than a decade after its initial experimental realization, the channel capacity remains fundamentally limited as conceived for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Julio T. Barreiro , Tzu-Chieh Wei , Paul G. Kwiat

The present work continues investigation of the capacities of measurement (quantum-classical) channels in the most general setting, initiated in~\cite{HCT}. The proof of coding theorems is given for the classical capacity and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-15 A. A. Kuznetsova , A. S. Holevo

We consider the problem of coding for quantum channels with side information that is available ahead of time at the transmitter but not at the receiver. We find a single-letter expression for the entanglement-assisted quantum capacity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-14 Frédéric Dupuis

Efficient entanglement distribution is the foundational challenge in realizing large-scale Quantum Networks. However, state-of-the-art solutions are frequently limited by restrictive operational assumptions, prohibitive computational…

Entanglement distribution is a crucial problem in quantum information science, owing to the essential role that entanglement plays in enabling advanced quantum protocols, including quantum teleportation and quantum cryptography. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Piotr Masajada , Marco Fellous-Asiani , Alexander Streltsov

Dual to the usual noisy channel coding problem, where a noisy (classical or quantum) channel is used to simulate a noiseless one, reverse Shannon theorems concern the use of noiseless channels to simulate noisy ones, and more generally the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Charles H. Bennett , Igor Devetak , Aram W. Harrow , Peter W. Shor , Andreas Winter

We provide a versatile upper bound on the number of maximally entangled qubits, or private bits, shared by two parties via a generic adaptive communication protocol over a quantum network when the use of classical communication is not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Luca Rigovacca , Go Kato , Stefan Bäuml , M. S. Kim , W. J. Munro , Koji Azuma

The amount of information transmissible through a communications channel is determined by the noise characteristics of the channel and by the quantities of available transmission resources. In classical information theory, the amount of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mikio Fujiwara , Masahiro Takeoka , Jun Mizuno , Masahide Sasaki

As our main result we show that, in order to achieve the randomness assisted message - and entanglement transmission capacities of a finite arbitrarily varying quantum channel it is not necessary that sender and receiver share…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Holger Boche , Janis Noetzel

We show that entanglement is a useful resource to enhance the mutual information of the depolarizing channel when the noise on consecutive uses of the channel has some partial correlations. We obtain a threshold in the degree of memory,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chiara Macchiavello , G. Massimo Palma

Quantum networks rely on the efficient distribution of entanglement to enable long-distance quantum communication and information processing. A key challenge in these networks is the design of routing protocols capable of maintaining high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Javier Vecino Peñas , Ana Fernández-Vilas , Rebeca P. Díaz-Redondo , Sergio Gándara Gándara , Manuel Fernández-Veiga

Coded source compression, also known as source compression with helpers, has been a major variant of distributed source compression, but has hitherto received little attention in the quantum regime. This work treats and solves the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Shun Watanabe

Quantum communication relies on the existence of high quality quantum channels to exchange information. In practice, however, all communication links are affected by noise from the environment. Here we investigate the ability of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Vishal Singh , Mark M. Wilde

The general scheme of data compression using the quantum noiseless coding theorem of Schumacher is dicussed for general quantum sources. When the Hilbert space of the quantum source is decomposable into orthogonal subspaces, one can first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Y. Szeto

The weak converse coding theorems have been proved for the quantum source and channel. The results give the lower bound for capacity of source and the upper bound for capacity of channel. The monotonicity of mutual quantum information have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 A. E. Allahverdyan , D. B. Saakian

An information-spectrum approach is applied to solve the multiterminal source coding problem for correlated general sources, where sources may be nonstationary and/or nonergodic, and the distortion measure is arbitrary and may be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Shengtian Yang , Peiliang Qiu

We describe a quantum cryptography protocol with up to twenty four-dimensional ($\mathcal{D} =4$) states generated by a polarization-, phase- and time-encoding transmitter. This protocol can be experimentally realized with existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-05 W. T. Buttler , S. K. Lamoreaux , J. R. Torgerson

Recent advancements in quantum computing highlight the need for efficient encoding of classical data into quantum states to ensure robust quantum information processing. Traditional encoding schemes often impose impractical requirements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Hyunho Cha , Wonjung Kim , Jungwoo Lee

Accurately estimating high-order moments of quantum states is an elementary precondition for many crucial tasks in quantum computing, such as entanglement spectroscopy, entropy estimation, spectrum estimation, and predicting non-linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Benchi Zhao , Mingrui Jing , Lei Zhang , Xuanqiang Zhao , Yu-Ao CHen , Kun Wang , Xin Wang