A solution of the Gaussian optimizer conjecture
Quantum Physics
2015-03-04 v2 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
The long-standing conjectures of the optimality of Gaussian inputs for Gaussian channel and Gaussian additivity are solved for a broad class of covariant or contravariant Bosonic Gaussian channels (which includes in particular thermal, additive classical noise, and amplifier channels) restricting to the class of states with finite second moments. We show that the vacuum is the input state which minimizes the entropy at the output of such channels. This allows us to show also that the classical capacity of these channels (under the input energy constraint) is additive and is achieved by Gaussian encodings.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1312.2251,
title = {A solution of the Gaussian optimizer conjecture},
author = {V. Giovannetti and A. S. Holevo and R. Garcia-Patron},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.2251},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
24 pages, no figures (minor typos corrected)