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Publications (35)

quant-ph2025

Exclusive Control of Quantum Memory Erasure

Mir Alimuddin, Nathan Shettell, Raja Yehia +2

Erasing memory is a fundamental operational task in quantum information processing, governed by Landauer's principle, which links information loss to thermodynamic work. We introdu…

quant-ph2019

Allowed and Forbidden Bipartite Correlations from Thermal States

Tamal Guha, Mir Alimuddin, Preeti Parashar

The strong connection between correlations and quantum thermodynamics raises a natural question about the preparation of correlated quantum states from two copies of a thermal qubi…

quant-ph2021

Multi-copy adaptive local discrimination: Strongest possible two-qubit nonlocal bases

Manik Banik, Tamal Guha, Mir Alimuddin +3

Ensembles of composite quantum states can exhibit nonlocal behaviour in the sense that their optimal discrimination may require global operations. Such an ensemble containing N pai…

quant-ph2026

Certifying ergotropy under partial information

Egle Pagliaro, Leonardo Zambrano, Mir Alimuddin +3

Ergotropy, the maximum work extractable from a quantum system, is a central resource in quantum physics. Computing ergotropy is well established when the system state is fully know…

quant-ph2023

Advantage of Hardy's Nonlocal Correlation in Reverse Zero-Error Channel Coding

Mir Alimuddin, Ananya Chakraborty, Govind Lal Sidhardh +5

Hardy's argument constitutes an elegant proof of quantum nonlocality. In this work, we report an exotic application of Hardy's nonlocal correlations in two-party communication setu…

quant-ph2020

Structure of passive states and its implication in charging quantum batteries

Mir Alimuddin, Tamal Guha, Preeti Parashar

In this article, in addition to the characterization of geometrical state spaces for the passive states, an operational approach has been introduced to distinguish them on their ch…

quant-ph2020

Thermodynamic advancement in the causally inseparable occurrence of thermal maps

Tamal Guha, Mir Alimuddin, Preeti Parashar

Quantum mechanics allows the occurrence of events without having any definite causal order. Here, it is shown that the application of two different thermal channels in the causally…

quant-ph2024

Classical analogue of quantum superdense coding and communication advantage of a single quantum system

Ram Krishna Patra, Sahil Gopalkrishna Naik, Edwin Peter Lobo +5

We analyze utility of communication channels in absence of any short of quantum or classical correlation shared between the sender and the receiver. To this aim, we propose a class…

quant-ph2024

Asymptotic Birkhoff-Violation in Operational Theories: Thermodynamic Implications and Information Processing

Ananya Chakraborty, Sahil Gopalkrishna Naik, Samrat Sen +4

In accordance with the entropy principle of thermodynamics, under spontaneous evolutions, physical systems always evolve towards states with equal or greater randomness. But, where…

quant-ph2022

Timelike correlations and quantum tensor product structure

Samrat Sen, Edwin Peter Lobo, Ram Krishna Patra +4

The state space structure for a composite quantum system is postulated among several mathematically consistent possibilities that are compatible with local quantum description. For…

quant-ph2022

Certifying beyond quantumness of locally quantum no-signalling theories through quantum input Bell test

Edwin Peter Lobo, Sahil Gopalkrishna Naik, Samrat Sen +3

Physical theories constrained with local quantum structure and satisfying the no-signalling principle can allow beyond-quantum global states. In a standard Bell experiment, correla…

quant-ph2017

Thermodynamics of local baths in the context of work extraction

Tamal Guha, Mir Alimuddin, Amit Mukherjee +3

We consider locally thermal states (for two qubits) with certain amount of quantum entanglement present between them. Unlike previous protocols we show how work can be extracted by…

quant-ph2021

Quantum Advantage for Shared Randomness Generation

Tamal Guha, Mir Alimuddin, Sumit Rout +3

Sharing correlated random variables is a resource for a number of information theoretic tasks such as privacy amplification, simultaneous message passing, secret sharing and many m…

quant-ph2025

Harnessing Causal Indefiniteness for Accessing Locally Inaccessible Data

Sahil Gopalkrishna Naik, Samrat Sen, Ram Krishna Patra +4

Recent studies suggest that physical theories can exhibit indefinite causal structures, where the causal order of events is fundamentally undefined yet logically consistent. Beyond…

quant-ph2024

Overcoming Traditional No-Go Theorems: Quantum Advantage in Multiple Access Channels

Ananya Chakraborty, Sahil Gopalkrishna Naik, Edwin Peter Lobo +5

Extension of point-to-point communication model to the realm of multi-node configurations finds a plethora of applications in internet and telecommunication networks. Here, we esta…

quant-ph2023

When Mei-Gu Guan's 1960 Postmen Get Empowered with Bell's 1964 Nonlocal Correlations, or, Nonlocal Advantage in Vehicle Routing Problem

Abhishek Banerjee, Pratapaditya Bej, Amit Mukherjee +3

Vehicle routing problems, a comprehensive problem category originated from the seminal Chinese Postman Problem (first investigated by Chinese mathematician Mei-Gu Guan), entail str…

quant-ph2026

Entanglement in the energy-constrained prepare-and-measure scenario: applications to randomness certification and channel discrimination

Raffaele D'Avino, Gabriel Senno, Mir Alimuddin +1

Quantum information tasks are often analyzed under varying trust assumptions about the devices involved. The semi-device-independent (SDI) framework offers a balance between needed…

quant-ph2020

Independence of work and entropy for equal energetic finite quantum systems: Passive state energy as an entanglement quantifier

Mir Alimuddin, Tamal Guha, Preeti Parashar

Although entropy is a necessary and sufficient quantity to characterize the order of work content for equal energetic (EE) states in the asymptotic limit, for the finite quantum sy…

quant-ph2023

Principle of information causality rationalizes quantum composition

Ram Krishna Patra, Sahil Gopalkrishna Naik, Edwin Peter Lobo +4

Principle of information causality, proposed as a generalization of no signaling principle, has efficiently been applied to outcast beyond quantum correlations as unphysical. In th…

quant-ph2025

Convex Optimization Approaches to Optimal Teleportation Fidelity in Linear Three-Party Networks

Arkaprabha Ghosal, Jatin Ghai, Tanmay Saha +2

We study the maximum achievable quantum teleportation fidelity between two distant parties, Alice and Charlie, where each of them share a bipartite quantum state only with a common…

quant-ph2022

Composition of multipartite quantum systems: perspective from time-like paradigm

Sahil Gopalkrishna Naik, Edwin Peter Lobo, Samrat Sen +5

Figuring out the physical rationale behind natural selection of quantum theory is one of the most acclaimed quests in quantum foundational research. This pursuit has inspired sever…

quant-ph2024

Experimental Verification of Many-Body Entanglement Using Thermodynamic Quantities

Jitendra Joshi, Mir Alimuddin, T S Mahesh +1

The phenomenon of quantum entanglement underlies several important protocols that enable emerging quantum technologies. Entangled states, however, are extremely delicate and often…

quant-ph2026

Ergotropic characterization of continuous variable entanglement

Beatriz Polo-Rodríguez, Federico Centrone, Gerardo Adesso +1

Continuous-variable quantum thermodynamics in the Gaussian regime provides a promising framework for investigating the energetic role of quantum correlations, particularly in optic…

quant-ph2019

Bound on Ergotropic Gap for Bipartite Separable States

Mir Alimuddin, Tamal Guha, Preeti Parashar

Presence of correlations among the constituent quantum systems has a great relevance in thermodynamics. Significant efforts have been devoted to investigate the role of correlation…

quant-ph2022

Exploring super-additivity of coherent information of noisy quantum channels through Genetic algorithms

Govind Lal Sidhardh, Mir Alimuddin, Manik Banik

Machine learning techniques are increasingly being used in fundamental research to solve various challenging problems. Here we explore one such technique to address an important pr…

quant-ph2026

Entanglement-swapping measurements for deterministic entanglement distribution

Mir Alimuddin, Jaemin Kim, Antonio Acín +1

Entanglement swapping is a key primitive for distributing entanglement across nodes in quantum networks. In standard protocols, the outcome of the intermediate measurement determin…

quant-ph2025

Ergodiscord: An Operational and Distinct Notion of Quantumness of Correlations

Mir Alimuddin, Snehasish Roy Chowdhury, Ram Krishna Patra +4

Nonclassicality in composite quantum systems depicts several puzzling manifestations, with Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entanglement, Schrödinger steering, and Bell nonlocality being t…

quant-ph2024

Quantum Advantage: A Single Qubit's Experimental Edge in Classical Data Storage

Chen Ding, Edwin Peter Lobo, Mir Alimuddin +5

We implement an experiment on a photonic quantum processor establishing efficacy of the elementary quantum system in classical information storage. The advantage is established by…

quant-ph2025

Repeater-Based Quantum Communication Protocol: Maximizing Teleportation Fidelity with Minimal Entanglement

Arkaprabha Ghosal, Jatin Ghai, Tanmay Saha +2

Transmitting unknown quantum states to distant locations is crucial for distributed quantum information protocols. The seminal quantum teleportation scheme achieves this feat while…

quant-ph2025

Exploring Non-Markovianity in Ergodic Channels: Measuring Memory Retention through Ergotropy

Ritam Basu, Anish Chakraborty, Himanshu Badhani +2

In this work we introduce and characterize a broad class of quantum operations with a unique fixed point, termed quantum ergodic channels. We derive Lindblad-type master equations…

quant-ph2022

Thermodynamic Signatures of Genuinely Multipartite Entanglement

Samgeeth Puliyil, Manik Banik, Mir Alimuddin

Theory of bipartite entanglement shares profound similarities with thermodynamics. In this letter we extend this connection to multipartite quantum systems where entanglement appea…

quant-ph2023

The battery capacity of energy-storing quantum systems

Xue Yang, Yan-Han Yang, Mir Alimuddin +5

The quantum battery capacity is introduced in this letter as a figure of merit that expresses the potential of a quantum system to store and supply energy. It is defined as the dif…

quant-ph2022

Local Quantum State Marking

Samrat Sen, Edwin Peter Lobo, Sahil Gopalkrishna Naik +8

We propose the task of local state marking (LSM), where some multipartite quantum states chosen randomly from a known set of states are distributed among spatially separated partie…

quant-ph2022

Indefinite causal order enables perfect quantum communication with zero capacity channels

Giulio Chiribella, Manik Banik, Some Sankar Bhattacharya +6

Quantum mechanics is compatible with scenarios where the relative order between two events can be indefinite. Here we show that two independent instances of a noisy process can beh…

quant-ph2019

Some no-go results in Quantum Thermodynamics

Tamal Guha, Mir Alimuddin, Preeti Parashar

Thermodynamics is one of the fascinating branches of traditional physics to certify the occurrence of many natural processes. On the other hand, quantum theory is the most acceptab…