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Universal quantum limits on single channel information, entropy and heat flow

Quantum Physics 2009-11-06 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We show that the recently discovered universal upper bound on the thermal conductance of a single channel comprising particles obeying arbitrary fractional statistics is in fact a consequence of a more general universal upper bound, involving the averaged entropy and energy currents of a single channel connecting heat reservoirs with arbitrary temperatures and chemical potentials. The latter upper bound in turn leads, via Holevo's theorem, to a universal (i.e., statistics independent) upper bound on the optimum capacity for classical information transmission down a single, wideband quantum channel.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0001007,
  title  = {Universal quantum limits on single channel information, entropy and heat flow},
  author = {Miles P. Blencowe and Vincenzo Vitelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0001007},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 figures added; minor changes to text. To appear in Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 62, Nov. 2000

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