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On strong superadditivity for a class of quantum channels

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Given a quantum channel Φ\Phi in a Hilbert space HH put H^Φ(ρ)=minρav=ρΣj=1kπjS(Φ(ρj))\hat H_{\Phi}(\rho)=\min \limits_{\rho_{av}=\rho}\Sigma_{j=1}^{k}\pi_{j}S(\Phi (\rho_{j})), where ρav=Σj=1kπjρj\rho_{av}=\Sigma_{j=1}^{k}\pi_{j}\rho_{j}, the minimum is taken over all probability distributions π={πj}\pi =\{\pi_{j}\} and states ρj\rho_{j} in HH, S(ρ)=TrρlogρS(\rho)=-Tr\rho\log\rho is the von Neumann entropy of a state ρ\rho. The strong superadditivity conjecture states that H^ΦΨ(ρ)H^Φ(TrK(ρ))+H^Ψ(TrH(ρ))\hat H_{\Phi \otimes \Psi}(\rho)\ge \hat H_{\Phi}(Tr_{K}(\rho))+\hat H_{\Psi}(Tr_{H}(\rho)) for two channels Φ\Phi and Ψ\Psi in Hilbert spaces HH and KK, respectively. We have proved the strong superadditivity conjecture for the quantum depolarizing channel in prime dimensions. The estimation of the quantity H^ΦΨ(ρ)\hat H_{\Phi\otimes \Psi}(\rho) for the special class of Weyl channels Φ\Phi of the form Φ=ΞΦdep\Phi=\Xi \circ \Phi_{dep}, where Φdep\Phi_{dep} is the quantum depolarizing channel and Ξ\Xi is the phase damping is given.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0610098,
  title  = {On strong superadditivity for a class of quantum channels},
  author = {Grigori Amosov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0610098},
  year   = {2007}
}

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revtex, 4 pages

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