On optimal entanglement assisted one-shot classical communication
Abstract
The one-shot success probability of a noisy classical channel for transmitting one classical bit is the optimal probability with which the bit can be sent via a single use of the channel. Prevedel et al. (PRL 106, 110505 (2011)) recently showed that for a specific channel, this quantity can be increased if the parties using the channel share an entangled quantum state. We completely characterize the optimal entanglement-assisted protocols in terms of the radius of a set of operators associated with the channel. This characterization can be used to construct optimal entanglement-assisted protocols from the given classical channel and to prove the limit of such protocols. As an example, we show that the Prevedel et al. protocol is optimal for two-qubit entanglement. We also prove some simple upper bounds on the improvement that can be obtained from quantum and no-signaling correlations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1201.1521,
title = {On optimal entanglement assisted one-shot classical communication},
author = {Brett Hemenway and Carl A. Miller and Yaoyun Shi and Mary Wootters},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.1521},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
5 pages, plus 7 pages of supplementary material. v2 is significantly expanded and contains a new result (Theorem 2)