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Quantum channels represent a broad spectrum of operations crucial to quantum information theory, encompassing everything from the transmission of quantum information to the manipulation of various resources. In the domain of states, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Gilad Gour , Doyeong Kim , Takla Nateeboon , Guy Shemesh , Goni Yoeli

Information theory establishes the ultimate limits on performance for noisy communication systems [Shannon48]. An accurate model of a physical communication device must include quantum effects, but typically including these makes the theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-20 Graeme Smith , John A. Smolin

A general quantum noisy channel is analyzed, wherein the transmitted qubits may experience symmetry-breaking decoherence, along with memory effects. We find the optimal basis not to be fully entangled, but a combination of factorized and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Goren Gordon , Gershon Kurizki

Covert quantum communication is usually analyzed under idealized assumptions that channel parameters, such as transmissivity and background noise, are perfectly known and constant. In realistic optical links, including satellite, fiber, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Abbas Arghavani , Alessandro V. Papadopoulos , Vahid Azimi Mousolou , Giuseppe Nebbione , Shahid Raza

We construct an explicit quantum coding scheme which achieves a communication rate not less than the coherent information when used to transmit quantum information over a noisy quantum channel. For Pauli and erasure channels we also present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-10 Joseph M. Renes , David Sutter , Frédéric Dupuis , Renato Renner

For a quantum channel of additive Gaussian noise with loss, in the general case of $n$ copies input, we show that up to first order perturbation, any non-Gaussian perturbation to the product thermal state input has a less quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-03 Xiao-yu Chen

We introduce a new quantum decoder based on a variant of the pretty good measurement, but defined via an alternative matrix quotient. We use this decoder to show new lower bounds on the error exponent both in the one-shot and asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Salman Beigi , Marco Tomamichel

In this paper, we characterize the throughput of a broadcast network with n receivers using rateless codes with block size K. We assume that the underlying channel is a Markov modulated erasure channel that is i.i.d. across users, but can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-01 Yang Yang , Ness B. Shroff

A class of burst noise-erasure channels which incorporate both errors and erasures during transmission is studied. The channel, whose output is explicitly expressed in terms of its input and a stationary ergodic noise-erasure process, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Lin Song , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

We investigate the capacity of noisy frequency-based channels, motivated by DNA data storage in the short-molecule regime, where information is encoded in the frequency of items types rather than their order. The channel output is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yuval Gerzon , Ilan Shomorony , Nir Weinberger

A major challenge of today's quantum communication systems lies in the transmission of quantum information with high rates over long distances in the presence of unavoidable losses. Thereby the achievable quantum communication rate is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-22 Andreas Christ , Cosmo Lupo , Christine Silberhorn

Quantum state can be teleported to a remote site by only local measurement and classical communication if the prior Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen quantum channel is available between the sender and the receiver. Those quantum channels shared by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-16 Xi Chen , He-Ming Wang , Liang-Zhu Mu , Heng Fan

In most communication scenarios, sending a symbol encoded in a quantum state requires spending resources such as energy, which can be quantified by a cost of communication. A standard approach in this context is to quantify the performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-09 Marcin Jarzyna

We show the equivalence of two different notions of quantum channel capacity: that which uses the entanglement fidelity as its criterion of success in transmission, and that which uses the minimum fidelity of pure states in a subspace of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 H. Barnum , E. Knill , M. A. Nielsen

Quantum technologies rely on the ability to coherently manipulate, process and transfer information, encoded in quantum states, along quantum channels. Decoherence induced by the environment introduces errors, thus setting limits on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-14 Bogna Bylicka , Dariusz Chruściński , Sabrina Maniscalco

This paper establishes several converse bounds on the private transmission capabilities of a quantum channel. The main conceptual development builds firmly on the notion of a private state, which is a powerful, uniquely quantum method for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Mark M. Wilde , Marco Tomamichel , Mario Berta

Neural-based image and video codecs are significantly more power-efficient when weights and activations are quantized to low-precision integers. While there are general-purpose techniques for reducing quantization effects, large losses can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-26 Amir Said , Reza Pourreza , Hoang Le

Identification in quantum communication enables receivers to verify the presence of a message without decoding its entire content. While identification capacity has been explored for classical and finite-dimensional quantum channels, its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Zuhra Amiri , Janis Nötzel

An important part of the information theory folklore had been about the output statistics of codes that achieve the capacity and how the empirical distributions compare to the output distributions induced by the optimal input in the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Alptug Aytekin , Mohamed Nomeir , Lei Hu , Sennur Ulukus

We work out a theory of approximate quantum error correction that allows us to derive a general lower bound for the entanglement fidelity of a quantum code. The lower bound is given in terms of Kraus operators of the quantum noise. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rochus Klesse