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quant-ph2013★ 14 cited

Strong converse rates for classical communication over thermal and additive noise bosonic channels

Bhaskar Roy Bardhan, Mark M. Wilde

We prove that several known upper bounds on the classical capacity of thermal and additive noise bosonic channels are actually strong converse rates. Our results strengthen the int…

quant-ph2013

Optical Soliton Propagation in a Free-Standing Nonlinear Graphene Monolayer with Defects

Frederick Ira Moxley, Tim Byrnes, Adarsh Radadia +1

Recently, optical soliton propagation in an intrinsic nonlinear graphene monolayer configuration has been discovered. However, optical soliton behavior in a free-standing graphene…

quant-ph2013★ 20 cited

Robust quantum data locking from phase modulation

Cosmo Lupo, Mark M. Wilde, Seth Lloyd

Quantum data locking is a unique quantum phenomenon that allows a relatively short key to (un)lock an arbitrarily long message encoded in a quantum state, in such a way that an eav…

quant-ph2013★ 32 cited

Quantum effects improve the energy efficiency of feedback control

Jordan M. Horowitz, Kurt Jacobs

The laws of thermodynamics apply equally well to quantum systems as to classical systems, and because of this quantum effects do not change the fundamental thermodynamic efficiency…

quant-ph2013★ 3 cited

The Generation of Super-Resolving Single-Photon Path-Entangled State

Wei Feng, Kebei Jiang, Michelle L. -J. Lollie +2

In this paper, we propose two protocols for generating super-resolving \textit{single-photon} path-entangled states from general maximally path-entangled N00N states. We also show…

quant-ph2013★ 1 cited

On the Uncertainty of the Ordering of Nonlocal Wavefunction Collapse when Relativity is Considered

Chris D. Richardson, Jon P. Dowling

The temporal measurement order and therefore the originator of the instantaneous collapse of the wavefunction of a spatiality entangled particle pair can change depending on the re…

quant-ph2013★ 13 cited

Lorentz Transformation of Blackbody Radiation

G. W. Ford, R. F. O'Connell

We present a simple calculation of the Lorentz transformation of the spectral distribution of blackbody radiation at temperature T. Here we emphasize that T is the temperature in t…

quant-ph2013★ 85 cited

Multiplicativity of completely bounded -norms implies a strong converse for entanglement-assisted capacity

Manish K. Gupta, Mark M. Wilde

The fully quantum reverse Shannon theorem establishes the optimal rate of noiseless classical communication required for simulating the action of many instances of a noisy quantum…

quant-ph2013★ 138 cited

Noise and disturbance in quantum measurements: an information-theoretic approach

Francesco Buscemi, Michael J. W. Hall, Masanao Ozawa +1

We introduce information-theoretic definitions for noise and disturbance in quantum measurements and prove a state-independent noise-disturbance tradeoff relation that these quanti…

quant-ph2013★ 1 cited

On the connection between quantum nonlocality and phase sensitivity of two-mode entangled Fock state superpositions

Kaushik P. Seshadreesan, Christoph Wildfeuer, Moochan B. Kim +2

In two-mode interferometry, for a given total photon number , entangled Fock state superpositions of the form $(|N-m\rangle_a|m\rangle_b+e^{i (N-2m)ϕ}|m\rangle_a|N-m\rangle_b)/\…

quant-ph2013★ 1.2k cited

Enhancing the sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Nearly a century after Einstein first predicted the existence of gravitational waves, a global network of earth-based gravitational wave observatories is seeking to directly detect…

quant-ph2013★ 28 cited

Sampling generalized cat states with linear optics is probably hard

Peter P. Rohde, Keith R. Motes, Paul Knott +3

Boson-sampling has been presented as a simplified model for linear optical quantum computing. In the boson-sampling model, Fock states are passed through a linear optics network an…

quant-ph2013★ 107 cited

The squashed entanglement of a quantum channel

Masahiro Takeoka, Saikat Guha, Mark M. Wilde

This paper defines the squashed entanglement of a quantum channel as the maximum squashed entanglement that can be registered by a sender and receiver at the input and output of a…

quant-ph2013★ 38 cited

Effects of Phase Fluctuations on Phase Sensitivity and Visibility of Path-Entangled Photon Fock States

Bhaskar Roy Bardhan, Kebei Jiang, Jonathan P. Dowling

We study effects of phase fluctuations on phase sensitivity and visibility of a class of robust path-entangled photon Fock states (known as mm' states) as compared to the maximally…

quant-ph2013★ 25 cited

Strong converse for the classical capacity of the pure-loss bosonic channel

Mark M. Wilde, Andreas Winter

This paper strengthens the interpretation and understanding of the classical capacity of the pure-loss bosonic channel, first established in [Giovannetti et al., Physical Review Le…

quant-ph2013

Improving photon detector efficiency using a high-fidelity optical CNOT gate

Katherine L Brown, Robinjeet Singh, Joshua H. Mendez Plaskus +2

A significant problem for optical quantum computing is inefficient, or inaccurate photo-detectors. It is possible to use CNOT gates to improve a detector by making a large cat stat…

quant-ph2013★ 34 cited

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion photon sources are scalable in the asymptotic limit for boson-sampling

Keith R. Motes, Jonathan P. Dowling, Peter P. Rohde

Boson-sampling has emerged as a promising avenue towards post-classical optical quantum computation, and numerous elementary demonstrations have recently been performed. Spontaneou…

quant-ph2013★ 25 cited

Quantum enigma machines and the locking capacity of a quantum channel

Saikat Guha, Patrick Hayden, Hari Krovi +5

The locking effect is a phenomenon which is unique to quantum information theory and represents one of the strongest separations between the classical and quantum theories of infor…

quant-ph2013★ 40 cited

Non-Gaussian entangled states and quantum teleportation of Schrödinger-cat states

Kaushik P. Seshadreesan, Jonathan P. Dowling, Girish S. Agarwal

In continuous-variable quantum information, non-Gaussian entangled states that are obtained from Gaussian entangled states via photon subtraction are known to contain more entangle…

quant-ph2013★ 35 cited

Quantum state cloning using Deutschian closed timelike curves

Todd A. Brun, Mark M. Wilde, Andreas Winter

We show that it is possible to clone quantum states to arbitrary accuracy in the presence of a Deutschian closed timelike curve (D-CTC), with a fidelity converging to one in the li…

quant-ph2013★ 517 cited

Strong converse for the classical capacity of entanglement-breaking and Hadamard channels via a sandwiched Renyi relative entropy

Mark M. Wilde, Andreas Winter, Dong Yang

A strong converse theorem for the classical capacity of a quantum channel states that the probability of correctly decoding a classical message converges exponentially fast to zero…

quant-ph2013★ 10 cited

Minimal noise subsystems

Xiaoting Wang, Mark Byrd, Kurt Jacobs

The existence of a decoherence-free subspace/subsystem (DFS) requires that the noise possesses a symmetry. In this work we consider noise models in which perturbations break this s…

quant-ph2013★ 58 cited

Super-Resolving Quantum Radar: Coherent-State Sources with Homodyne Detection Suffice to Beat the Diffraction Limit

Kebei Jiang, Hwang Lee, Christopher C. Gerry +1

There has been much recent interest in quantum metrology for applications to sub-Raleigh ranging and remote sensing such as in quantum radar. For quantum radar, atmospheric absorpt…

quant-ph2013

Reducing the number of ancilla qubits and the gate count required for creating large controlled operations

Katherine L. Brown, Anmer Daskin, Sabre Kais +1

In this paper we show that it is possible to adapt a qudit scheme for creating a controlled-Toffoli created by Ralph et al. [Phys. Rev. A 75 011213] to be applicable to qubits. Whi…