Henry D. Pfister

Comparing the bit-MAP and block-MAP decoding thresholds of reed-muller codes on BMS channels

2016

The question whether RM codes are capacity-achieving is a long-standing open problem in coding theory that was recently answered in the affirmative for transmission over erasure channels [1], [2]. Remarkably, the proof does not rely …

Adaptive Procedures for Discrimination Between Arbitrary Tensor-Product\n Quantum States

2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Discrimination between quantum states is a fundamental task in quantum\ninformation theory. Given two arbitrary tensor-product quantum states (TPQS)\n$\\rho_{\\pm} = \\rho_{\\pm}^{(1)} \\otimes \\cdots \\otimes \\rho_{\\pm}^{(N)}$,\ndetermining the joint $N$-system measurement to optimally distinguish between\nthe two states is …