Construction of channels which in every dimension anti-degrade the depolarizing channel
Abstract
We consider the depolarizing channel in dimension defined as , and explicitly find a quantum channel which anti-degrades this, when . This proves that the depolarizing channel has zero capacity when . As a corollary, this implies that any quantum channel when contaminated by white noise stronger than this value loses its capacity completely. Although by arguments based on symmetric-extendibiliy of the Choi matrix, it is known that the channel is anti-degradable when , the explicit form of the anti-degrading channel in this larger interval is not known. We also calculate in closed form the capacity of the complenetary channel in the region . This adds to the existing list of quantum channels for which the quantum capacity has been calculated in closed form.
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@article{arxiv.2408.05733,
title = {Construction of channels which in every dimension anti-degrade the depolarizing channel},
author = {Shayan Roofeh and Vahid Karimipour},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.05733},
year = {2026}
}
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Accepted for Publication in Quantum Information Processing