Debbie Leung

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Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)
Research Associate Faculty
Areas of research:
Quantum Information
(519) 888-4567 x33604
http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~wcleung/
I study the capacity of communicating various form of data (quantum, private, or classical) through quantum channels, focusing on the superadditivity phenomenon. I also study how quantum entanglement, in particular, embezzlement of entanglement, plays a role in quantum information theory.
  • Tolman Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Physics Institute for Quantum Information, Caltech, 2002-2005
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Quantum Computation Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, 2002
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Information group IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 2000-2002
  • NSERC Discovery grant, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2024
  • NSERC QUORUM project, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2023
  • Discovery Grant, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), 2016-2024
  • Asadi, V. R., Kuroiwa, K., Leung, D., May, A., Pasterski, S., & Waddell, C. (2024). Conditional disclosure of secrets with quantum resources. arxiv:2404.14491v2
  • Childs, A. M., Fu, H., Leung, D., Li, Z., Ozols, M., & Vyas, V. (2023). Streaming quantum state purification. arxiv:2309.16387v2
  • Khanian, Z. B., Kuroiwa, K., & Leung, D. (2023). Rate-Distortion Theory for Mixed States. In 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Vol. 00 (pp. 749-754). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/isit54713.2023.10206960
  • Leditzky, F., Leung, D., Siddhu, V., Smith, G., & Smolin, J. A. (2023). The Platypus of the Quantum Channel Zoo. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 69(6), 3825-3849. doi:10.1109/tit.2023.3245985
  • Leditzky, F., Leung, D., Siddhu, V., Smith, G., & Smolin, J. A. (2023). Generic Nonadditivity of Quantum Capacity in Simple Channels. Physical Review Letters, 130(20), 200801. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.130.200801
  • Kuroiwa, K., & Leung, D. (2023). Rate reduction of blind quantum data compression with local approximations based on the unstable structure of quantum states. Physical Review A, 107(5), 052421. doi:10.1103/physreva.107.052421
  • Girard, M., Leung, D., Levick, J., Li, C. -K., Paulsen, V., Poon, Y. T., & Watrous, J. (2022). On the Mixed-Unitary Rank of Quantum Channels. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 394(2), 919-951. doi:10.1007/s00220-022-04412-y
  • Khanian, Z. B., Kuroiwa, K., & Leung, D. (2022). Rate-Distortion Theory for Mixed States. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2208.11698
  • Tansuwannont, T., & Leung, D. (2022). Achieving Fault Tolerance on Capped Color Codes with Few Ancillas. PRX Quantum, 3(3), 030322. doi:10.1103/prxquantum.3.030322
  • Leditzky, F., Leung, D., Siddhu, V., Smith, G., & Smolin, J. A. (2022). The platypus of the quantum channel zoo. In 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Vol. 00 (pp. 2433-2438). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/isit50566.2022.9834678
  • Anshu, A., Leung, D., & Touchette, D. (2022). Incompressibility of Classical Distributions. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 68(3), 1758-1771. doi:10.1109/tit.2021.3130131
  • Tansuwannont, T., & Leung, D. (2021). Fault-tolerant quantum error correction using error weight parities. Physical Review A, 104(4), 042410. doi:10.1103/physreva.104.042410
  • Leung, D., Nayak, A., Shayeghi, A., Touchette, D., Yao, P., & Yu, N. (2021). Capacity Approaching Coding for Low Noise Interactive Quantum Communication Part I: Large Alphabets. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 67(8), 5443-5490. doi:10.1109/tit.2021.3086221
  • Leung, D., Winter, A., & Yu, N. (2021). LOCC protocols with bounded width per round optimize convex functions. Reviews in Mathematical Physics, 33(05), 2150013. doi:10.1142/s0129055x21500136
  • The platypus of the quantum channel zoo and their generic nonadditivity, 2024/10/26
  • Christopher King Memorial Lecture, Beyond IID in Information Theory 12, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Jul 29 -- Aug 02, 2024., 2024/07/31
  • Quantum Information and Computation, Stanford Program for Inspiring the Next Generation of Women in Physics (SPINWIP), Stanford University, Palo Alto (virtual). July 8-26, 2024., 2024/07/16
  • Additive quantities cannot be more than asymptotically continuous, InQubator for Quantum Simulation seminar, University of Washington, Seattle (virtual)., 2024/05/01
  • The platypus of the quantum channel zoo, Quantum Information and Computing seminar, Texas Tech University, Lubbock (virtual)., 2024/04/17
  • Purifying arbitrarily noisy quantum states, 2024 Center for Quantum Frontiers of Research \& Technology (QFort) Workshop, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. April 15-17, 2024, 2024/04/17
  • Purifying arbitrarily noisy quantum states, Fundamental Limitations to Quantum Computation, Banff International Research Station, Alberta, Canada. March 4-8, 2024., 2024/03/07
  • Quantum state purification, Quantum Information Workshop, SwissMAP Research Station, Les Diablerets, Switzerland. February 26 - March 02, 2024., 2024/02/26
  • The platypus of the quantum channel zoo and their generic nonadditivity, Southwest Quantum Information and Technology, 25th Annual SQuInT Workshop, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. October 26-28, 2023, 2023/10/26
  • Rate-Distortion Theory for Mixed States, Analytical and Combinatorial Methods in Quantum Information Theory II, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2023/07/28
  • Rate distortion theory for mixed state quantum data compression, CMS meeting, University of Ottawa, 2023/06/03
  • Quantum channel capacities and the platypus of the quantum channel zoo, Quantum Days 2023, Quantum Information Theory session, 2023/01/18
  • The platypus of the quantum channel zoo and their generic nonadditivity, CMS 2022 Winter Meeting, Toronto, 2022/12/04