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The quantum capacity of channels with arbitrarily correlated noise

Quantum Physics 2010-03-19 v5

Abstract

We study optimal rates for quantum communication over a single use of a channel, which itself can correspond to a finite number of uses of a channel with arbitrarily correlated noise. The corresponding capacity is often referred to as the one-shot quantum capacity. In this paper, we prove bounds on the one-shot quantum capacity of an arbitrary channel. This allows us to compute the quantum capacity of a channel with arbitrarily correlated noise, in the limit of asymptotically many uses of the channel. In the memoryless case, we explicitly show that our results reduce to known expressions for the quantum capacity.

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@article{arxiv.0902.0158,
  title  = {The quantum capacity of channels with arbitrarily correlated noise},
  author = {Francesco Buscemi and Nilanjana Datta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.0158},
  year   = {2010}
}

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15 pages, two columns. Final improved version - to appear in IEEE