The Classically-Enhanced Father Protocol

Speaker: Mark M. WildeMonday, December 15, 2008
11:00am - 12:00pm
EEB 539Abstract: The classically-enhanced father protocol is an optimal protocol for a sender to transmit both classical and quantum information to a receiver by exploiting preshared entanglement and a large number of independent uses of a noisy quantum channel. We detail the proof of a quantum Shannon theorem that gives the three-dimensional capacity region containing all achievable rates that the classically-enhanced father protocol obtains. Points in the capacity region are rate triples consisting of the classical communication rate, the quantum communication rate, and the entanglement consumption rate of a particular coding scheme. The classically-enhanced father protocol is more general than any other protocol in the family tree of quantum Shannon theoretic protocols. Several previously known quantum protocols are now child protocols of the classically-enhanced father protocol. Interestingly, the classically-enhanced father protocol gives insight for constructing optimal classically-enhanced entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting codes.Biography: Mark M. Wilde completed the Ph.D. program in Electrical Engineering at USC in August 2008 with special focus in quantum computing and quantum communication. He obtained a Master's of Science degree at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He pursued undergraduate studies in computer engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. NEC Laboratories America in Princeton, New Jersey hosted him as a visitor for September 2008 and the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore hosted him from October to the present date. He will begin a career at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in Washington, DC in January 2009 with a focus on quantum computing and quantum communication applications.Host: Prof. Todd Brun, tbrun@usc.edu, EEB 502, x03503

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 539

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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