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We describe a quantum error correction scheme aimed at protecting a flow of quantum information over long distance communication. It is largely inspired by the theory of classical convolutional codes which are used in similar circumstances…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Ollivier , J. -P. Tillich

We present a dense coding scheme between one sender and two receivers, which guarantees that the receivers simultaneously obtain their respective messages. In our scheme, the quantum entanglement channel is first locked by the sender so…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Haozhen Situ , Daowen Qiu

Coding theorems and (strong) converses for memoryless quantum communication channels and quantum sources are proved: for the quantum source the coding theorem is reviewed, and the strong converse proven. For classical information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Winter

We give a polynomial-time approximation scheme for the generalization of Huffman Coding in which codeword letters have non-uniform costs (as in Morse code, where the dash is twice as long as the dot). The algorithm computes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Mordecai Golin , Claire Mathieu , Neal E. Young

We propose and analyze an approach to realize quantum computation and simulation using fermionic particles under quantum gas microscopes. Our work is inspired by a recent experimental demonstration of large-scale quantum registers, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Xiangkai Sun , Di Luo , Soonwon Choi

This paper initiates the study of quantum computing within the constraints of using a polylogarithmic ($O(\log^k n), k\geq 1$) number of qubits and a polylogarithmic number of computation steps. The current research in the literature has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sanjay Gupta , R. K. P. Zia

Quantum algorithms require a universal set of gates that can be implemented in a physical system. For these, an optimal decomposition into a sequence of available operations is desired. Here, we present a method to find such sequences for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-22 Esteban A. Martinez , Thomas Monz , Daniel Nigg , Philipp Schindler , Rainer Blatt

The quantum error correction theory is as a rule formulated in a rather convoluted way, in comparison to classical algebraic theory. This work revisits the error correction in a noisy quantum channel so as to make it intelligible to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 C. M. F. Barros , Francisco Marcos de Assis , H. M. de Oliveira

We study uncloneable quantum encryption schemes for classical messages as recently proposed by Broadbent and Lord. We focus on the information-theoretic setting and give several limitations on the structure and security of these schemes:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-05 Christian Majenz , Christian Schaffner , Mehrdad Tahmasbi

Geometric phase is an indispensable element for achieving robust and high-fidelity quantum gates due to its built-in noise-resilience feature. However, due to the complexity of manipulation and the intrinsic leakage of the encoded quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-12 Li-Na Ji , Tao Chen , Zheng-Yuan Xue

Quantum communication typically involves a linear chain of repeater stations, each capable of reliable local quantum computation and connected to their nearest neighbors by unreliable communication links. The communication rate in existing…

In this paper we present an efficiently scaling quantum algorithm which finds the size of the maximum common edge subgraph for a pair of arbitrary graphs and thus provides a meaningful measure of graph similarity. The algorithm makes use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-04 M. Chiew , K. de Lacy , C. H. Yu , S. Marsh , J. B. Wang

Quantum computers have the potential to efficiently solve a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs), which play a crucial role in various industries and scientific fields. However, it remains unclear which system of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Yu Tanaka , Keisuke Fujii

Efficient optimal prefix coding has long been accomplished via the Huffman algorithm. However, there is still room for improvement and exploration regarding variants of the Huffman problem. Length-limited Huffman coding, useful for many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Michael B. Baer

Quantum computing has been increasingly applied in nuclear physics. In this work, we combine quantum computing with the complex scaling method to address the resonance problem. Due to the non-Hermiticity introduced by complex scaling,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-11 Hantao Zhang , Dong Bai , Zhongzhou Ren

Quantum fingerprints are useful quantum encodings introduced by Buhrman, Cleve, Watrous, and de Wolf (Physical Review Letters, Volume 87, Number 16, Article 167902, 2001; quant-ph/0102001) in obtaining an efficient quantum communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis , Yaoyun Shi

The circuit-level implementation of a quantum string-matching algorithm, which matches a search string (pattern) of length $M$ inside a longer text of length $N$, has already been demonstrated in the literature to outperform its classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-07 Amit Saha , Om Khanna

Many promising ideas for quantum computing demand the experimental ability to directly switch 'on' and 'off' a physical coupling between the component qubits. This is typically the key difficulty in implementation, and precludes quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Simon C. Benjamin , Sougato Bose

Quantum data locking is a quantum communication primitive that allows the use of a short secret key to encrypt a much longer message. It guarantees information-theoretical security against an adversary with limited quantum memory. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Zixin Huang , Pieter Kok , Cosmo Lupo

Practical applicability of quantum optimisation on near term devices is constrained by limited qubit counts and hardware noise, which restricts the scalability of quantum optimisation algorithms for combinatorial problems. The simulation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Namasi G Sankar , Georgios Miliotis , Simon Caton