Comparison of Quantum Channels by Superchannels

DOI10.1109/TIT.2019.2907989MaRDI QIDQ5211415zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gilad Gour

Publication date 28 January 2020

Published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02607

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

Abstract: We extend the definition of the conditional min-entropy from bipartite quantum states to bipartite quantum channels. We show that many of the properties of the conditional min-entropy carry over to the extended version, including an operational interpretation as a guessing probability when one of the subsystems is classical. We then show that the extended conditional min-entropy can be used to fully characterize when two bipartite quantum channels are related to each other via a superchannel (also known as supermap or a comb) that is acting on one of the subsystems. This relation is a pre-order that extends the definition of "quantum majorization" from bipartite states to bipartite channels, and can also be characterized with semidefinite programming. As a special case, our characterization provides necessary and sufficient conditions for when a set of quantum channels is related to another set of channels via a single superchannel. We discuss the applications of our results to channel discrimination, and to resource theories of quantum processes. Along the way we study channel divergences, entropy functions of quantum channels, and noise models of superchannels, including random unitary superchannels, and doubly-stochastic superchannels. For the latter we give a physical meaning as being completely-uniformity preserving.

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• Operational characterization of weight-based resource quantifiers via exclusion tasks in general probabilistic theories
• An entropy function of a quantum channel
• Quantifying dynamical total coherence in a resource non-increasing framework
• Log-convex set of Lindblad semigroups acting on N-level system
• Necessary and sufficient conditions on measurements of quantum channels
• Quantum and classical dynamical semigroups of superchannels and semicausal channels
• Detecting entanglement of quantum channels
• Quantifying channel coherence via the norm distance
• Cone-restricted information theory
• Comparing two entropy functions of a quantum channel
• Discrete dynamics in the set of quantum measurements
• Postselected communication over quantum channels
• Corralling spectra of generators of time-continuous Markov evolution (both classical and quantum)
• Fundamental limitations on the recoverability of quantum processes
• Continuity inequalities for sandwiched Rényi and Tsallis conditional entropies with application to the channel entropy continuity
• Indistinguishability of quantum channels by using classically simulable measurements
• Quantum majorization on semi-finite von Neumann algebras
• Coherence of quantum Gaussian channels

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