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Forgetfulness of continuous Markovian quantum channels

Quantum Physics 2009-10-28 v3

Abstract

The notion of forgetfulness, used in discrete quantum memory channels, is slightly weakened in order to be applied to the case of continuous channels. This is done in the context of quantum memory channels with Markovian noise. As a case study, we apply the notion of weak-forgetfulness to a bosonic memory channel with additive noise. A suitable encoding and decoding unitary transformation allows us to unravel the effects of the memory, hence the channel capacities can be computed using known results from the memoryless setting.

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@article{arxiv.0907.1544,
  title  = {Forgetfulness of continuous Markovian quantum channels},
  author = {Cosmo Lupo and Laleh Memarzadeh and Stefano Mancini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.1544},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures, comments are welcome. Minor corrections and acknoledgment added