The Quantum Capacity With Symmetric Side Channels

DOI10.1109/TIT.2008.928269MaRDI QIDQ3604817zbMATH OpenDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Graeme Smith, John A. Smolin, Andreas Winter

Publication date 24 February 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0607039

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Coding theorems (Shannon theory) (94A24) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

Abstract: We present an upper bound for the quantum channel capacity that is both additive and convex. Our bound can be interpreted as the capacity of a channel for high-fidelity quantum communication when assisted by a family of channels that have no capacity on their own. This family of assistance channels, which we call symmetric side channels, consists of all channels mapping symmetrically to their output and environment. The bound seems to be quite tight, and for degradable quantum channels it coincides with the unassisted channel capacity. Using this symmetric side channel capacity, we find new upper bounds on the capacity of the depolarizing channel. We also briefly indicate an analogous notion for distilling entanglement using the same class of (one-way) channels, yielding one of the few entanglement measures that is monotonic under local operations with one-way classical communication (1-LOCC), but not under the more general class of local operations with classical communication (LOCC).

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• The pitfalls of deciding whether a quantum channel is (conjugate) degradable and how to avoid them
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