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We investigate whether the use of a noiseless, classical feedback channel will increase the capacity of a quantum discrete memoryless channel to transmit classical information. This problem has been previously analyzed by Bowen and…

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The quantum capacity of a quantum channel is always smaller than the capacity of the channel for private communication. However, both quantities are given by the infinite regularization of respectively the coherent and the private…

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We exhibit discrete memoryless quantum channels whose quantum capacity assisted by two-way classical communication, $Q_2$, exceeds their unassisted one-shot Holevo capacity $C_H$. These channels may be thought of as having a data input and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles H. Bennett , Igor Devetak , Peter W. Shor , John A. Smolin

Quantum communication channels differ from their classical counterparts because their capacities can be superadditive. The principle of monogamy of entanglement suggests that superadditive improvements in the transmission capacity of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Satvik Singh , Sergii Strelchuk

A recent method to certify the classical capacity of quantum communication channels is applied for general damping channels in finite dimension. The method compares the mutual information obtained by coding on the computational and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-23 Chiara Macchiavello , Massimiliano F. Sacchi , Tito Sacchi

Several relations between the Holevo capacity and the entanglement-assisted classical capacity of a quantum channel are proved, necessary and sufficient conditions for their coincidence are obtained. In particular, it is shown that these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-10 M. E. Shirokov

We explore several new converse bounds for classical communication over quantum channels in both the one-shot and asymptotic regimes. First, we show that the Matthews-Wehner meta-converse bound for entanglement-assisted classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Xin Wang , Kun Fang , Marco Tomamichel

We establish Ahlswede dichotomy for arbitrarily varying classical-quantum wiretap channels. This means that either the deterministic secrecy capacity of an arbitrarily varying classical-quantum wiretap channel is zero or it equals its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Holger Boche , Minglai Cai , Christian Deppe , Janis Nötzel

Quantum channel capacities give the fundamental performance limits for information flow over a communication channel. However, the prevalence of superadditivity is a major obstacle to understanding capacities, both quantitatively and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Graeme Smith , Peixue Wu

When classical or quantum information is broadcast to separate receivers, there exist codes that encrypt the encoded data such that the receivers cannot recover it when performing local operations and classical communication, but they can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-31 Cosmo Lupo , Mark M. Wilde , Seth Lloyd

We calculate the entanglement-assisted classical capacity of symmetric and asymmetric Pauli channels where two consecutive uses of the channels are correlated. It is evident from our study that in the presence of memory, a higher amount of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nigum Arshed , A. H. Toor

For a partially degradable (PD) channel, the channel output state can be used to simulate the degraded environment state. The quantum capacity of a PD channel has been proven to be additive. Here, we show that the private classical capacity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Laszlo Gyongyosi

Quantum information processing exploits the quantum nature of information. It offers fundamentally new solutions in the field of computer science and extends the possibilities to a level that cannot be imagined in classical communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-02 Laszlo Gyongyosi , Sandor Imre

The super-additivity of quantum channel capacity is an important feature of quantum information theory different from classical theory, which has been attracting attention. Recently a special channel called ``platypus channel'' exhibits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Zhen Wu , Qi Zhao , Zhihao Ma

Determining capacities of quantum channels is a fundamental question in quantum information theory. Despite having rigorous coding theorems quantifying the flow of information across quantum channels, their capacities are poorly understood…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Felix Leditzky , Debbie Leung , Vikesh Siddhu , Graeme Smith , John A. Smolin

We consider the transmission of classical information over a quantum channel by two senders. The channel capacity region is shown to be a convex hull bound by the Von Neumann entropy and the conditional Von Neumann entropy. We discuss some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Minxin Huang , Yongde Zhang , Guang Hou

We prove that the classical capacity of an arbitrary quantum channel assisted by a free classical feedback channel is bounded from above by the maximum average output entropy of the quantum channel. As a consequence of this bound, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Dawei Ding , Yihui Quek , Peter W. Shor , Mark M. Wilde

The quantum capacity of a quantum channel captures its capability for noiseless quantum communication. It lies at the heart of quantum information theory. Unfortunately, our poor understanding of nonadditivity of coherent information makes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Felix Leditzky , Debbie Leung , Graeme Smith

We study information transmission over a fully correlated amplitude damping channel acting on two qubits. We derive the single-shot classical channel capacity and show that entanglement is needed to achieve the channel best performance. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-01 A. D'Arrigo , G. Benenti , G. Falci , C. Macchiavello

We consider quantum channels with two senders and one receiver. For an arbitrary such channel, we give multi-letter characterizations of two different two-dimensional capacity regions. The first region is comprised of the rates at which it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-25 Jon Yard , Igor Devetak , Patrick Hayden