Decoding quantum information via the Petz recovery map

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Abstract: We obtain a lower bound on the maximum number of qubits, Qn,varepsilon(mathcalN), which can be transmitted over n uses of a quantum channel mathcalN, for a given non-zero error threshold varepsilon. To obtain our result, we first derive a bound on the one-shot entanglement transmission capacity of the channel, and then compute its asymptotic expansion up to the second order. In our method to prove this achievability bound, the decoding map, used by the receiver on the output of the channel, is chosen to be the {em{Petz recovery map}} (also known as the {em{transpose channel}}). Our result, in particular, shows that this choice of the decoder can be used to establish the coherent information as an achievable rate for quantum information transmission. Applying our achievability bound to the 50-50 erasure channel (which has zero quantum capacity), we find that there is a sharp error threshold above which Qn,varepsilon(mathcalN) scales as sqrtn.


It is known that if we use a quantum memory-less channel, \(N\) with probability of error \(\varepsilon\) \(n\) times, then the amount of qubits that can be sent is \(Q^{n,\varepsilon}(N)=n\cdot I_c(N)+o(n)\). The authors show that \(Q^{n,\varepsilon}(N)\geq n\cdot I_c(N)+\sqrt{n\cdot V_\varepsilon(N)}\cdot \Phi^{-1}(\varepsilon)+O(\log(n))\) for some characteristic \(V_\varepsilon(N)\), where \(\Phi^{-1}\) is an inverse function to the cumulative distribution function of the standard Gaussian distribution. Interestingly, the corresponding lower bound has the same form as for the classical communication channels.NEWLINENEWLINEIn contrast to the previous purely existential proofs of similar asymptotic properties, the new result uses an explicitly defined decoder -- namely, Petz recovery map. For this decoder, it was proven that the average error in sending an ensemble of commuting states is at most twice the corresponding minimal possible error.



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