One-shot entanglement transmission is a quantum information processing task where a quantum state is sent to a second party over a noisy channel. The goal of the task is to approximately recover the original state by applying a decoder to the output of the noisy channel. In this work, we note that the Petz map induces a universal decoder for one-shot entanglement transmission, and we quantify its entanglement fidelity. This fidelity is found to be determined by the singly minimized Petz Rényi mutual information of order 1/2 associated with a complementary channel, thus providing a novel operational interpretation of this information measure. Furthermore, we compare the performance of this decoder to that of the decoder induced by the twirled Petz map and the Schumacher-Westmoreland decoder.One-shot entanglement transmission is a quantum information processing task where a quantum state is sent to a second party over a noisy channel. The goal of the task is to approximately recover the original state by applying a decoder to the output of the noisy channel. In this work, we note that the Petz map induces a universal decoder for one-shot entanglement transmission, and we quantify its entanglement fidelity. This fidelity is found to be determined by the singly minimized Petz Rényi mutual information of order 1/2 associated with a complementary channel, thus providing a novel operational interpretation of this information measure. Furthermore, we compare the performance of this decoder to that of the decoder induced by the twirled Petz map and the Schumacher-Westmoreland decoder.

Oct 1, 20260 citations

One-shot entanglement generation and distillation via Petz recovery and binary hypothesis testing

Matthew Can, Mark M. Wilde

How much entanglement can two distant laboratories share when their connection is noisy? We relate this question to deciding which of two quantum hypotheses is present. Our one-shot bounds apply to entanglement generation over a quantum channel and to one-way entanglement distillation from a shared state. We use Cheng's trace inequality to bound the infidelity of a Petz decoder in terms of a binary hypothesis testing cost. Applying the inequality before averaging over codes reduces the error analysis to computing a second moment of random subspaces. The proof covers every integer target dimension and treats rank-deficient states explicitly. A corollary expresses the achievable entanglement through hypothesis-testing coherent information, with a single logarithmic error slack and exact integer rounding. We also prove an error-preserving conversion from entanglement generation codes to entanglement transmission codes: the target dimension decreases by only a constant factor at fixed error, and the decoder is the original decoder followed by local processing. Consequently, for both entanglement generation and entanglement transmission, arbitrary pure reference-input states yield the same coherent-information rate, second-order Gaussian correction at the original error tolerance, and explicit achievable logarithmic remainder. For commuting testing hypotheses, the logarithmic remainder improves to a constant. These results give a direct route from binary distinguishability to explicit recovery guarantees and finite-resource quantum communication rates.How much entanglement can two distant laboratories share when their connection is noisy? We relate this question to deciding which of two quantum hypotheses is present. Our one-shot bounds apply to entanglement generation over a quantum channel and to one-way entanglement distillation from a shared state. We use Cheng's trace inequality to bound the infidelity of a Petz decoder in terms of a binary hypothesis testing cost. Applying the inequality before averaging over codes reduces the error analysis to computing a second moment of random subspaces. The proof covers every integer target dimension and treats rank-deficient states explicitly. A corollary expresses the achievable entanglement through hypothesis-testing coherent information, with a single logarithmic error slack and exact integer rounding. We also prove an error-preserving conversion from entanglement generation codes to entanglement transmission codes: the target dimension decreases by only a constant factor at fixed error, and the decoder is the original decoder followed by local processing. Consequently, for both entanglement generation and entanglement transmission, arbitrary pure reference-input states yield the same coherent-information rate, second-order Gaussian correction at the original error tolerance, and explicit achievable logarithmic remainder. For commuting testing hypotheses, the logarithmic remainder improves to a constant. These results give a direct route from binary distinguishability to explicit recovery guarantees and finite-resource quantum communication rates.

quant-pharXiv:2610.31501Oct 23, 20260 citations

Decoding quantum information via the Petz recovery map

Salman Beigi, Nilanjana Datta, Felix Leditzky

We obtain a lower bound on the maximum number of qubits, Qn, ε(N), which can be transmitted over n uses of a quantum channel N, for a given non-zero error threshold ε. To obtain our result, we first derive a bound on the one-shot entanglement transmission capacity of the channel, and then compute its asymptotic expansion up to the second order. In our method to prove this achievability bound, the decoding map, used by the receiver on the output of the channel, is chosen to be the Petz recovery map (also known as the transpose channel). Our result, in particular, shows that this choice of the decoder can be used to establish the coherent information as an achievable rate for quantum information transmission. Applying our achievability bound to the 50-50 erasure channel (which has zero quantum capacity), we find that there is a sharp error threshold above which Qn, ε(N) scales as n.We obtain a lower bound on the maximum number of qubits, Qn, ε(N), which can be transmitted over n uses of a quantum channel N, for a given non-zero error threshold ε. To obtain our result, we first derive a bound on the one-shot entanglement transmission capacity of the channel, and then compute its asymptotic expansion up to the second order. In our method to prove this achievability bound, the decoding map, used by the receiver on the output of the channel, is chosen to be the Petz recovery map (also known as the transpose channel). Our result, in particular, shows that this choice of the decoder can be used to establish the coherent information as an achievable rate for quantum information transmission. Applying our achievability bound to the 50-50 erasure channel (which has zero quantum capacity), we find that there is a sharp error threshold above which Qn, ε(N) scales as n.

arXiv:1504.04449Journal of Mathematical PhysicsAug 1, 201634 citations

Quantum communication: a discrimination approach

Hao-Chung Cheng

We develop a state discrimination approach to unassisted quantum communication through a noisy quantum channel. Starting from the operational duality between entanglement recovery and state discrimination, we construct entanglement-generation codes with explicit decoders constructed from Petz recovery maps. The resulting error bounds hold for every number of channel uses and are expressed in terms of Petz-Rényi coherent information. For product sources, they yield exponential error decay at rates below coherent information.We develop a state discrimination approach to unassisted quantum communication through a noisy quantum channel. Starting from the operational duality between entanglement recovery and state discrimination, we construct entanglement-generation codes with explicit decoders constructed from Petz recovery maps. The resulting error bounds hold for every number of channel uses and are expressed in terms of Petz-Rényi coherent information. For product sources, they yield exponential error decay at rates below coherent information.

quant-pharXiv:2610.40358Oct 30, 20260 citations

Petz map recovery for long-range entangled quantum many-body states

Yangrui Hu, Yijian Zou

Given a tripartite quantum state on $A,B,C$ and the erasure channel on $C$ , the rotated Petz map is a recovery channel that acts on $B$ to recover the erased quantum information. The infidelity of the best recovery is upper bounded by the conditional mutual information (CMI). In this work, we study the infidelity of the rotated Petz map on several physically relevant long-range entangled quantum states. Specifically, we study three classes of quantum phases: (i) steady states of measurement-induced phase transitions, (ii) critical ground state under local measurements, and (iii) chiral states under local measurements. We find that the averaged infidelity of the Petz map recovery sharply distinguishes the three classes: (i) and (ii) are distinguished by the scaling of the infidelity with CMI and (iii) is characterized by an asymmetry of the fidelity with the rotation parameter. We also study Petz map recovery for topological order and find an operational interpretation of the topological entanglement entropy. Our result indicates that the recovery fidelity of the Petz map is a useful diagnostic of quantum phases of matter.Given a tripartite quantum state on $A,B,C$ and the erasure channel on $C$, the rotated Petz map is a recovery channel that acts on $B$ to recover the erased quantum information. The infidelity of the best recovery is upper bounded by the conditional mutual information (CMI). In this work, we study the infidelity of the rotated Petz map on several physically relevant long-range entangled quantum states. Specifically, we study three classes of quantum phases: (i) steady states of measurement-induced phase transitions, (ii) critical ground state under local measurements, and (iii) chiral states under local measurements. We find that the averaged infidelity of the Petz map recovery sharply distinguishes the three classes: (i) and (ii) are distinguished by the scaling of the infidelity with CMI and (iii) is characterized by an asymmetry of the fidelity with the rotation parameter. We also study Petz map recovery for topological order and find an operational interpretation of the topological entanglement entropy. Our result indicates that the recovery fidelity of the Petz map is a useful diagnostic of quantum phases of matter.

arXiv:2408.00857Physical review. B./Physical review. BNov 4, 20246 citations

Tight any-shot quantum decoupling

Mario Berta, Hao-Chung Cheng, Yongsheng Yao

Quantum information decoupling is a fundamental primitive in quantum information theory, underlying various applications in quantum physics. We prove a novel one-shot decoupling theorem formulated in terms of quantum relative entropy distance, with the decoupling error bounded by two sandwiched Rényi conditional entropies. In the asymptotic i.i.d. setting of standard information decoupling via partial trace, we show that this bound is ensemble-tight in quantum relative entropy distance and thereby yields a characterization of the associated decoupling error exponent in the low-cost-rate regime. Leveraging this framework, we derive several operational applications formulated in terms of purified distance: (i) single-letter expressions for the exact error exponents of quantum state merging in the low-entanglement-cost and high-entanglement-distillation-rate regimes, in terms of Petz-Rényi conditional entropies, and (ii) regularized expressions for achievable error exponents of entanglement distillation and quantum channel coding in terms of Petz-Rényi coherent informations. We further prove that these achievable bounds are tight for maximally correlated states and generalized dephasing channels, respectively, for the high distillation-rate/coding-rate regimes.Quantum information decoupling is a fundamental primitive in quantum information theory, underlying various applications in quantum physics. We prove a novel one-shot decoupling theorem formulated in terms of quantum relative entropy distance, with the decoupling error bounded by two sandwiched Rényi conditional entropies. In the asymptotic i.i.d. setting of standard information decoupling via partial trace, we show that this bound is ensemble-tight in quantum relative entropy distance and thereby yields a characterization of the associated decoupling error exponent in the low-cost-rate regime. Leveraging this framework, we derive several operational applications formulated in terms of purified distance: (i) single-letter expressions for the exact error exponents of quantum state merging in the low-entanglement-cost and high-entanglement-distillation-rate regimes, in terms of Petz-Rényi conditional entropies, and (ii) regularized expressions for achievable error exponents of entanglement distillation and quantum channel coding in terms of Petz-Rényi coherent informations. We further prove that these achievable bounds are tight for maximally correlated states and generalized dephasing channels, respectively, for the high distillation-rate/coding-rate regimes.

quant-pharXiv:2602.17430Feb 20, 20260 citations

Given a tripartite quantum state on

A,B,C

and the erasure channel on

C

, the rotated Petz map is a recovery channel that acts on

B

to recover the erased quantum information. The infidelity of the best recovery is upper bounded by the conditional mutual information (CMI). In this work, we study the infidelity of the rotated Petz map on several physically relevant long-range entangled quantum states. Specifically, we study three classes of quantum phases: (i) steady states of measurement-induced phase transitions, (ii) critical ground state under local measurements, and (iii) chiral states under local measurements. We find that the averaged infidelity of the Petz map recovery sharply distinguishes the three classes: (i) and (ii) are distinguished by the scaling of the infidelity with CMI and (iii) is characterized by an asymmetry of the fidelity with the rotation parameter. We also study Petz map recovery for topological order and find an operational interpretation of the topological entanglement entropy. Our result indicates that the recovery fidelity of the Petz map is a useful diagnostic of quantum phases of matter.