Publications

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Book

Quantum Information Theory: Concepts and Methods De Gruyter, 2022 [link] [doi]

Lecture notes

• Quantum Error Correction
  2024
  [pdf]

Preprints

• Efficient and Optimal Quantum State Discrimination via Quantum Belief Propagation
  Christophe Piveteau and Joseph M. Renes
  2025
  [arXiv]

• Computation with Quantum Reed-Muller Codes and Their Mapping onto 2D Atom Arrays
  Anqi Gong and Joseph M. Renes
  2024
  [arXiv]

• Toward Low-latency Iterative Decoding of QLDPC Codes Under Circuit-Level Noise
  Anqi Gong, Sebastian Cammerer, and Joseph M. Renes
  2024
  [arxiv]

• Consistency in the description of quantum measurement: Quantum theory can consistently describe the use of itself
  Joseph M. Renes
  2021
  [arxiv]

• Are quantum cryptographic security claims vacuous?
  Joseph M. Renes and Renato Renner
  2020
  [arxiv]

Refereed journal publications

1. Tight Lower Bound on the Error Exponent of Classical-Quantum Channels
   Joseph M. Renes
   IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2025
   [arXiv] [doi]

2. Tensor Network Decoding Beyond 2D
   Christophe Piveteau, Christopher T. Chubb, and Joseph M. Renes
   PRX Quantum, 2024
   [arXiv] [doi]

3. Quantum dichotomies and coherent thermodynamics beyond first-order asymptotics
   Patryk Lipka-Bartosik, Christopher T. Chubb, Joseph M. Renes, Marco Tomamichel, and Kamil Korzekwa
   PRX Quantum, 2024
   [arxiv] [doi]

4. Time-energy uncertainty relation for noisy quantum metrology
   Philippe Faist, Mischa P. Woods, Victor V. Albert, Joseph M. Renes, Jens Eisert, and John Preskill
   PRX Quantum, 2023
   [arxiv] [doi]

5. Belief Propagation for Classical and Quantum Systems: Overview and Recent Results
   Henry D. Pfister, Christophe Piveteau, Joseph M. Renes, and Narayanan Rengaswamy
   IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine, 2022
   [doi]

6. Minimizing couplings in renormalization by preserving short-range mutual information
   Christian Bertoni and Joseph M. Renes
   Journal of Physics A, 2022
   [arxiv] [doi]

7. Quantum message-passing algorithm for optimal and efficient decoding
   Christophe Piveteau and Joseph M. Renes
   Quantum, 2022
   [arxiv] [doi]

8. Optimal Universal Quantum Error Correction via Bounded Reference Frames
   Yuxiang Yang, Yin Mo, Joseph M. Renes, Giulio Chiribella, and Mischa P. Woods
   Physical Review Research, 2022
   [arxiv] [doi]

9. Waveform Estimation from Approximate Quantum Nondemolition Measurements
   Sami Boulebnane, Mischa P. Woods, and Joseph M. Renes
   Physical Review Letters, 2021
   [arxiv] [doi]

10. Compounds of symmetric informationally complete measurements and their application in quantum key distribution
    Armin Tavakoli, Ingemar Bengtsson, Nicolas Gisin, and Joseph M. Renes
    Physical Review Research, 2020
    [arxiv] [doi]

11. Non-additivity in classical-quantum wiretap channels
    Arkin Tikku, Mario Berta, and Joseph M. Renes
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 2020
    [arxiv] [doi]

12. On the Second-Order Asymptotics of the Partially Smoothed Conditional Min-Entropy & Application to Quantum Compression
    Dina Abdelhadi and Joseph M. Renes
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 2020
    [arxiv] [doi]

13. Entropic time-energy uncertainty relations: An algebraic approach
    Christian Bertoni, Yuxiang Yang, and Joseph M. Renes
    New Journal of Physics, 2020
    [arxiv] [doi]

14. Classical leakage resilience from fault-tolerant quantum computation
    Felipe G. Lacerda, Joseph M. Renes, and Renato Renner
    Journal of Cryptology, 2019
    [arxiv] [doi]

15. On Privacy Amplification, Lossy Compression, and Their Duality to Channel Coding
    Joseph M. Renes
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2018
    [arxiv] [doi]

16. Polar Codes for Arbitrary Classical-Quantum Channels and Arbitrary cq-MACs
    R. Nasser and Joseph. M. Renes
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2018
    [arxiv] [doi]

17. Duality of channels and codes
    Joseph M. Renes
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2018
    [arxiv] [doi]

18. Reliable channel-adapted error correction: Bacon-Shor code recovery from amplitude damping
    Álvaro Piedrafita and Joseph M. Renes
    Physical Review Letters, 2017
    [arxiv] [doi]

19. Better bounds on optimal measurement and entanglement recovery, with applications to uncertainty and monogamy relations
    Joseph M. Renes
    Physical Review A, 2017
    [arxiv] [doi]

20. Belief propagation decoding of quantum channels by passing quantum messages
    Joseph M. Renes
    New Journal of Physics, 2017
    [arxiv] [doi]

21. Uncertainty relations: An operational approach to the error-disturbance tradeoff
    Joseph M. Renes, Volkher B. Scholz, and Stefan Huber
    Quantum, 2017
    [arxiv] [doi]

22. Coherent-state constellations and polar codes for thermal Gaussian channels
    Felipe Lacerda, Joseph M. Renes, and Volkher B. Scholz
    Physical Review A, 2017
    [arxiv] [doi]

23. Pretty good measures in quantum information theory
    Raban Iten, Joseph M. Renes, and David Sutter
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2017
    [arxiv] [doi]

24. Relative submajorization and its use in quantum resource theories
    Joseph M. Renes
    Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2016
    [arxiv] [doi]

25. Uncertainty relations and approximate quantum error correction
    Joseph M. Renes
    Physical Review A, 2016
    [arxiv] [doi]

26. Quantum Coding with Finite Resources
    Marco Tomamichel, Mario Berta, and Joseph M. Renes
    Nature Communications, 2016
    [arxiv] [arxiv] [doi]

27. Second-order coding rates for pure-loss bosonic channels
    Mark M. Wilde, Joseph M. Renes, and Saikat Guha
    Quantum Information Processing, 2016
    [arxiv] [doi]

28. Beyond heat baths: generalized resource theories for small-scale thermodynamics
    Nicole Yunger Halpern and Joseph M. Renes
    Physical Review E, 2016
    [arxiv] [doi]

29. Alignment of polarized sets
    Joseph M. Renes, David Sutter, and S. Hamed Hassani
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) - Special Issue on Recent Advances In Capacity Approaching Codes, 2016
    [arxiv] [doi]

30. Efficient quantum polar codes requiring no preshared entanglement
    Joseph M. Renes, David Sutter, Frédéric Dupuis, and Renato Renner
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2015
    [arxiv] [doi]

31. Identifying the information gain of a quantum measurement
    Mario Berta, Joseph M. Renes, and Mark M. Wilde
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2014
    [arxiv] [doi]

32. Lower bounds for quantum parameter estimation
    Michael Walter and Joseph M. Renes
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2014
    [arxiv] [doi]

33. Work cost of thermal operations in quantum thermodynamics
    Joseph M. Renes
    European Physical Journal Plus - Focus point on quantum information and complexity, 2014
    [arxiv] [doi]

34. Polar codes for private and quantum communication over arbitrary channels
    Joseph M. Renes and Mark M. Wilde
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2014
    [arxiv] [doi]

35. The physics of quantum information: complementarity, uncertainty, and entanglement
    Joseph M. Renes
    International Journal of Quantum Information, 2013
    [arxiv] [doi]

36. Resource theory of quantum states out of thermal equilibrium
    Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, Michał Horodecki, Jonathan Oppenheim, Joseph M. Renes, and Robert W. Spekkens
    Physical Review Letters, 2013
    [arxiv] [doi]

37. One-shot lossy quantum data compression
    Nilanjana Datta, Joseph M. Renes, Renato Renner, Mark M. Wilde
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2013
    [arxiv] [doi]

38. Holonomic quantum computing in symmetry-protected ground states of spin chains
    Joseph M. Renes, Akimasa Miyake, Gavin K. Brennen, and Stephen D. Bartlett
    New Journal of Physics, 2013
    [arxiv] [doi]

39. Efficient Polar Coding of Quantum Information
    Joseph M. Renes, Frédéric Dupuis, and Renato Renner
    Physical Review Letters, 2012
    [arxiv] [doi]

40. One-Shot Classical Data Compression With Quantum Side Information and
    the Distillation of Common Randomness or Secret Keys
    Joseph M. Renes and Renato Renner
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2012
    [arxiv] [doi]

41. Noisy Channel Coding via Privacy Amplification and Information Reconciliation
    Joseph M. Renes and Renato Renner
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2011
    [arxiv] [doi]

42. Duality of privacy amplification against quantum adversaries and data compression with quantum side information
    Joseph M. Renes
    Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2011
    [arxiv] [doi]

43. Quantum Computational Renormalization in the Haldane Phase
    Stephen D. Bartlett, Gavin K. Brennen, Akimasa Miyake, and Joseph M. Renes
    Physical Review Letters, 2010
    [arxiv] [doi]

44. The uncertainty principle in the presence of quantum memory
    Mario Berta, Matthias Christandl, Roger Colbeck, Joseph M. Renes, and Renato Renner
    Nature Physics, 2010
    [arxiv] [doi]

45. Conjectured Strong Complementary Information Tradeoff
    Joseph M. Renes and Jean-Christian Boileau
    Physical Review Letters, 2009
    [arxiv] [doi]

46. Symmetric extension in two-way quantum key distribution
    Geir Ove Myhr, Joseph M. Renes, Andrew C. Doherty, and Norbert Lütkenhaus
    Physical Review A, 2009
    [arxiv] [doi]

47. Improved one-way rates for BB84 and 6-state protocols
    Oliver Kern and Joseph M. Renes
    Quantum Information and Computation, 2008
    [arxiv] [doi]

48. Physical underpinnings of privacy
    Joseph M. Renes and Jean-Christian Boileau
    Physical Review A, 2008
    [arxiv] [doi]

49. Structured Codes Improve the Bennett-Brassard-84 Quantum Key Rate
    Graeme Smith, Joseph M. Renes, and John A. Smolin
    Physical Review Letters, 2008
    [arxiv] [doi]

50. Equiangular tight frames from Paley tournaments
    Joseph M. Renes
    Linear Algebra and its Applications, 2007
    [arxiv] [doi]

51. Noisy Processing and Distillation of Private Quantum States
    Joseph M. Renes and Graeme Smith
    Physical Review Letters, 2007
    [arxiv] [doi]

52. Generalized decoding, effective channels, and simplified security proofs in quantum key distribution
    Joseph M. Renes and Markus Grassl
    Physical Review A, 2006
    [arxiv] [doi]

53. Unconditional Security of a Three State Quantum Key Distribution Protocol
    Jean-Christian Boileau, Kiyoshi Tamaki, Jamie Batuwantudawe, Raymond Laflamme, and Joseph M. Renes
    Physical Review Letters 2005
    [arxiv] [doi]

54. Equiangular spherical codes in quantum cryptography
    Joseph M. Renes
    Quantum Information and Computation, 2005
    [arxiv] [doi]

55. Spherical-code key-distribution protocols for qubits
    Joseph M. Renes
    Physical Review A, 2004
    [arxiv] [doi]

56. Symmetric informationally complete quantum measurements
    Joseph M. Renes, Robin Blume-Kohout, A. J. Scott, and Carlton M. Caves
    Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2004
    [arxiv] [doi]

57. Gleason-Type Derivations of the Quantum Probability Rule for Generalized Measurements
    Carlton M. Caves, Christopher A. Fuchs, Kiran K. Manne, and Joseph M. Renes
    Foundations of Physics, 2004
    [arxiv] [doi]

58. Quantum information and precision measurement
    Andrew Childs, John Preskill, and Joseph Renes
    Journal of Modern Optics, 2000
    [arxiv] [doi]

Refereed conference publications

1. Fully Quantum Computational Entropies , Noam Avidan, Thomas A. Hahn, Joseph M. Renes, and Rotem Arnon
   Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS), 2026
   [arXiv] [doi]

2. Graph Neural Networks for Enhanced Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes
   Anqi Gong, Sebastian Cammerer, and Joseph M. Renes
   IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2024
   [arXiv] [doi]

3. Improved Logical Error Rate via List Decoding of Quantum Polar Codes Anqi Gong and Joseph M. Renes , International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2024
   [arXiv] [doi]

4. Achievable error exponents of data compression with quantum side information and communication over symmetric classical-quantum channels
   Joseph M. Renes
   Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2023
   [arxiv] [doi]

5. Quantum message-passing algorithm for optimal and efficient decoding
   Christophe Piveteau and Joseph M. Renes
   International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2022
   [arxiv] [doi]

6. Pseudocodeword-based Decoding of Quantum Color Codes
   July X. Li, Joseph M. Renes, and Pascal O. Vontobel
   International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2021
   [arxiv] [doi]

7. Additivity in Classical-Quantum Wiretap Channels
   Arkin Tikku, Joseph M. Renes, and Mario Berta
   International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2020
   [arxiv] [doi]

8. Second-order asymptotics of quantum data compression from partially-smoothed conditional entropy
   Dina Abdelhadi and Joseph M. Renes
   International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2020
   [arxiv] [doi]

9. Privacy Amplification, Lossy Compression, and Their Duality to Channel Coding
   Joseph M. Renes
   International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2019
   [arxiv] [doi]

10. Polar Codes for Arbitrary Classical-Quantum Channels and Arbitrary cq-MACs
    R. Nasser and Joseph. M. Renes
    International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2017
    [arxiv] [doi]

11. Duality of channels and codes
    Joseph M. Renes
    International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2017
    [arxiv] [doi]

12. Belief propagation decoding of quantum channels by passing quantum messages
    Joseph M. Renes
    International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2017
    [arxiv] [doi]

13. Pretty good measures in quantum information theory
    Raban Iten, Joseph M. Renes, and David Sutter
    International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2017
    [arxiv] [doi]

14. Coherent state constellations for Bosonic Gaussian channels
    Felipe Lacerda, Joseph M. Renes, and Volkher B. Scholz
    International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2016
    [arxiv] [doi]

15. Alignment of polarized sets
    Joseph M. Renes, David Sutter, and S. Hamed Hassani
    International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2015
    [arxiv] [doi]

16. Identifying the information gain of a quantum measurement
    Mario Berta, Joseph M. Renes, and Mark M. Wilde
    International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2014
    [arxiv] [doi]

17. Universal polar codes for more capable and less noisy channels and sources
    David Sutter and Joseph M. Renes
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2014
    [arxiv] [doi]

18. A Heisenberg limit for quantum region estimation
    Michael Walter and Joseph M. Renes
    International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2014
    [arxiv] [doi]

19. Generalized Entropies
    Frédéric Dupuis, Lea Kraemer, Philippe Faist, Joseph M. Renes, and Renato Renner
    XVIIth International Conference on Mathematical Physics (ICMP), 2013
    [arxiv] [doi]

20. Efficient One-Way Secret-Key Agreement and Private Channel Coding via Polarization
    Joseph M. Renes, Renato Renner, and David Sutter
    Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT, 2013
    [arxiv] [doi]

21. Efficient quantum polar codes requiring no preshared entanglement
    Joseph M. Renes, David Sutter, Frédéric Dupuis, and Renato Renner
    International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2013
    [arxiv] [doi]

22. Achieving the capacity of any DMC using only polar codes
    David Sutter, Joseph M. Renes, Frédéric Dupuis, and Renato Renner
    Information Theory Workshop, 2012
    [arxiv] [doi]

23. Polar codes for private classical communication
    Mark M. Wilde and Joseph M. Renes
    International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA), 2012
    [arxiv] [doi]

24. Quantum polar codes for arbitrary channels
    Mark M. Wilde and Joseph M. Renes
    International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2012
    [arxiv] [doi]

25. Optimal State Merging Without Decoupling
    Jean-Christian Boileau and Joseph M. Renes
    Workshop on Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication, and Cryptography (TQC)
    [arxiv] [doi]

Theses

• The Physics of Quantum Information: Complementarity, Uncertainty, and Entanglement
  Habilitation thesis, 2011
  [pdf]

• Frames, Designs, and Codes in Quantum Information Theory
  PhD Thesis, 2004
  [pdf]

Patents

• Quantum Key Distribution (using equiangular spherical codes)
  US Patent 7,653,199