Strong converse for the classical capacity of entanglement-breaking and Hadamard channels via a sandwiched Rényi relative entropy (Q742865)

Classical capacity of a channel is known as the maximum rate of communication (transmission) where the error probability of transmission exponentially decaying fastly to zero, in the limit of many channel uses. A strong converse theorem for classical capacity of a quantum channel states that the probability of correctly decoding a classical message fastly decaying to zero if the rate of communication exceeds the classical capacity of the channel. Interpretation of the classical capacity of all entanglement-breaking channels and their complementary ones (Hadamard channels) are strengthen through a proof of a strong converse theorem that sharply differentiate between achievable and non-achievable rate of communication. This is done by bounding the success probability in terms of `sandwiched' Rényi; relative entropy. Prior results regarding strong converse theorems for particular covariant channels emerge as a special case of the present results.