Extreme bosonic linear channels

DOI10.1007/S11232-013-0026-0MaRDI QIDQ394055zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander S. Holevo

Publication date 24 January 2014

Published in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3552

zbMATH Keywords

bosonic linear channelextremal channelGaussian channelminimum noisequantum information theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Information theory (general) (94A15) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

Abstract: The set of all channels with fixed input and output is convex. We first give a convenient formulation of necessary and sufficient condition for a channel to be extreme point of this set in terms of complementary channel, a notion of big importance in quantum information theory. This formulation is based on the general approach to extremality of completely positive maps in an operator algebra due to Arveson. We then apply this formulation to prove the main result of this note: under certain nondegeneracy conditions, purity of the environment is necessary and sufficient for extremality of Bosonic linear (quasi-free) channel. It follows that Gaussian channel between finite-mode Bosonic systems is extreme if and only if it has minimal noise.

Review text

In this work the author proves a necessary and sufficient condition for a quantum channel to be an extreme point of the convex set of channels with a fixed input and output, the result being stated in terms of the associated complementary channel. Also a main result proved is that the extremality of a bosonic Gaussian channel is equivalent to a minimum noise condition.

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