Entanglement Cost of Quantum Channels

DOI10.1109/TIT.2013.2268533zbMATH Open1364.81054arXiv1108.5357OpenAlexW2175863477WikidataQ59711921 ScholiaQ59711921MaRDI QIDQ5346322FDOQ5346322

Authors: Mario Berta, Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, Matthias Christandl, S. Wehner 

Publication date: 8 June 2017

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

Abstract: The entanglement cost of a quantum channel is the minimal rate at which entanglement (between sender and receiver) is needed in order to simulate many copies of a quantum channel in the presence of free classical communication. In this paper we show how to express this quantity as a regularised optimisation of the entanglement formation over states that can be generated between sender and receiver. Our formula is the channel analog of a well-known formula for the entanglement cost of quantum states in terms of the entanglement of formation; and shares a similar relation to the recently shattered hope for additivity. The entanglement cost of a quantum channel can be seen as the analog of the quantum reverse Shannon theorem in the case where free classical communication is allowed. The techniques used in the proof of our result are then also inspired by a recent proof of the quantum reverse Shannon theorem and feature the one-shot formalism for quantum information theory, the post-selection technique for quantum channels as well as Sion's minimax theorem. We discuss two applications of our result. First, we are able to link the security in the noisy-storage model to a problem of sending quantum rather than classical information through the adversary's storage device. This not only improves the range of parameters where security can be shown, but also allows us to prove security for storage devices for which no results were known before. Second, our result has consequences for the study of the strong converse quantum capacity. Here, we show that any coding scheme that sends quantum information through a quantum channel at a rate larger than the entanglement cost of the channel has an exponentially small fidelity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5357

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Quantum cryptography (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P94)

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• Capacity estimates via comparison with TRO channels
• Quantum cryptography beyond quantum key distribution
• Strong converse for the classical capacity of the pure-loss bosonic channel
• Quantum broadcast channels with cooperating decoders: an information-theoretic perspective on quantum repeaters
• Entanglement-saving channels
• Relative entropy bounds on quantum, private and repeater capacities
• Necessary and sufficient conditions on measurements of quantum channels
• The zero-error entanglement cost is highly non-additive
• Quantum Channel Capacities per Unit Cost

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