The Holevo capacity of infinite dimensional channels and the additivity problem

DOI10.1007/S00220-005-1457-8zbMATH Open1115.81017arXivquant-ph/0408009OpenAlexW3098344100MaRDI QIDQ852371FDOQ852371

M. E. Shirokov

Publication date: 29 November 2006

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The notion of the Holevo capacity for arbitrarily constrained infinite dimensional quantum channels is introduced. It is shown that despite nonexistence of an optimal ensemble in this case it is possible to define the notion of the output optimal average state for such a channel. The characterization of the output optimal average state and a "minimax" expression for the Holevo capacity are obtained. This makes it possible to prove equivalence of several additivity properties for infinite dimensional quantum channels. The notion of the $chi$-function for an infinite dimensional channel is considered, its strong concavity and lower semicontinuity are shown. The problem of continuity of the Holevo capacity is also discussed. It is shown that the Holevo capacity is continuous function of a channel in the finite dimensional case while in general it is only lower semicontinuous. This conclusion is confirmed by the example. The main result of this note is the statement that additivity of the Holevo capacity for all finite dimensional channels implies additivity of the Holevo capacity for all infinite dimensional channels with arbitrary constraints. The subadditivity of the $chi$-function for two infinite dimensional channels with one of them noiseless or entanglement breaking is also proved.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0408009

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zbMATH Keywords

concaveinfinite dimensionalQuantum channel

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

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