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Counterexample to an additivity conjecture for output purity of quantum channels

Quantum Physics 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

A conjecture arising naturally in the investigation of additivity of classical information capacity of quantum channels states that the maximal purity of outputs from a quantum channel, as measured by the p-norm, should be multiplicative with respect to the tensor product of channels. We disprove this conjecture for p>4.79. The same example (with p=infinity) also disproves a conjecture for the multiplicativity of the injective norm of Hilbert space tensor products.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0203003,
  title  = {Counterexample to an additivity conjecture for output purity of quantum channels},
  author = {R. F. Werner and A. S. Holevo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0203003},
  year   = {2015}
}

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3 pages, 3 figures, revtex

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