EAGER: Information Theory: From Classical to Quantum

该提案重点关注量子信息理论的新兴领域，预计该领域将在理解量子计算、量子密码学和量子网络的基本性能限制方面发挥重要作用。PI将进行研究活动，使他能够在这两个主题之间架起桥梁。研究结果将发表在一本书中，这本书将服务于对这一重要领域感兴趣的广泛的学生、研究人员和实践者。这项研究将为量子信息理论提供另一种视角，这将具有很高的智力价值。它将有助于以一种新的方式将物理学和信息论联系起来，并使工科学生能够接触到先进的物理概念。该提案重点关注量子信息理论的新兴领域，预计该领域将在理解量子计算、量子密码学和量子网络的基本性能限制方面发挥重要作用。该项目将促进我们对半经典波/光子模型及其在工程实践中的应用的理解。这项研究将导致对半经典/量子信道的各种调制格式的信道容量进行表征。该项目将导致一个无缝的理论，包括经典信息论，半经典信息论，和量子信息理论在一个单一的伞下，以能量和相的概念为基础。此外，我们对这种关系的理解将导致信息论在电信中的应用方面的新课题，以及与量子理论的许多应用相关的新课题。这项研究的结果将发表在一本书中，这本书将服务于对这一重要领域感兴趣的广泛的学生、研究人员和从业者。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The proposal focuses on the emerging area of quantum information theory, which is expected to play a major role in understanding the fundamental performance limits for quantum computation, quantum cryptography, and quantum networking. The PI will perform research activities that will allow him to bridge these two topics. The results of the research will be published in a book that will serve a broad range of students, researchers, and practitioners who are interested in this important area. The research will provide an alternative perspective on the quantum information theory, which will be of high intellectual value. It will help connecting Physics and Information theory in a new way and will make advanced physics concepts accessible to engineering students. The proposal focuses on the emerging area of quantum information theory, which is expected to play a major role in understanding the fundamental performance limits for quantum computation, quantum cryptography, and quantum networking. The project will advance our understanding of semiclassical wave/photon models as well as their applications in the engineering practice. The research will lead to the characterization of the channel capacity of various modulation formats for semiclassical/quantum channels. The project will lead to a seamless theory that encompasses classical information theory, semiclassical information theory, and quantum information theory under a single umbrella anchored by the concepts of energy and phase. In addition, our understanding of this relationship will lead to new topics in information theory with application to telecommunications, and new topics relating to the many applications of quantum theory. The results of the research will be published in a book that will serve a broad range of students, researchers, and practitioners who are interested in this important area.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.