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The von Neumann entropy plays a vital role in quantum information theory. The von Neumann entropy determines, e.g., the capacities of quantum channels. Also, entropies of composite quantum systems are important for future quantum networks,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Christian Majenz

We show that for the tensor product of an entanglement-breaking quantum channel with an arbitrary quantum channel, both the minimum entropy of an output of the channel and the Holevo-Schumacher-Westmoreland capacity are additive. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Peter W. Shor

Quantum entropy inequalities are studied. Some quantum entropy inequalities are obtained by several methods. For entanglement breaking channel, we show that the entanglement-assisted classical capacity is upper bounded by $\log d$. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Heng Fan

We show the equivalence of two different notions of quantum channel capacity: that which uses the entanglement fidelity as its criterion of success in transmission, and that which uses the minimum fidelity of pure states in a subspace of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 H. Barnum , E. Knill , M. A. Nielsen

We consider the additivity of the minimal output entropy and the classical information capacity of a class of quantum channels. For this class of channels the norm of the output is maximized for the output being a normalized projection. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. M. Wolf , J. Eisert

The uncertainty relation reveals the intrinsic difference between the classical world and the quantum world. We investigate the quantum uncertainty relation of quantum channel in qubit systems. Under two general measurement bases, we first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Shi-Yun Kong , Ming-Jing Zhao , Zhi-Xi Wang , Shao-Ming Fei

In this paper, Wielandt's inequality for classical channels is extended to quantum channels. That is, an upper bound to the number of times a channel must be applied, so that it maps any density operator to one with full rank, is found.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-02 M. Sanz , D. Perez-Garcia , M. M. Wolf , J. I. Cirac

Quantum relative entropy, a quantum generalization of the renowned Kullback-Leibler divergence, serves as a fundamental measure of the distinguishability between quantum states and plays a pivotal role in quantum information science.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Yuchen Lu , Kun Fang

The quantum data processing inequality asserts that two quantum states become harder to distinguish when a noisy channel is applied. On the other hand, a reverse quantum data processing inequality characterizes whether distinguishability is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Paula Belzig , Li Gao , Graeme Smith , Peixue Wu

The quantum capacity captures the value of a quantum channel for transmitting quantum information, establishing the fundamental limits on quantum communication. In spite of its central role in quantum information theory, the quantum…

Finding the minimal relative entropy of two quantum states under semidefinite constraints is a pivotal problem located at the mathematical core of various applications in quantum information theory. An efficient method for providing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Gereon Koßmann , René Schwonnek

The main goal of this paper is to extend and apply the principle of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) to incomplete quantum process estimation tasks. We will define a so-called process entropy function being the von Neumann entropy of the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mario Ziman

The channel output entropy of a transmitted word is the entropy of the possible channel outputs and similarly, the input entropy of a received word is the entropy of all possible transmitted words. The goal of this work is to study these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Shubhransh Singhvi , Omer Sabary , Daniella Bar-Lev , Eitan Yaakobi

Some new examples of quantum channels for which the infimum of the output entropy is additive under taking a tensor product of channels are given.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Grigori Amosov

We present an effcient experimental procedure that certifies non vanishing quantum capacities for qubit noisy channels. Our method is based on the use of a fixed bipartite entangled state, where the system qubit is sent to the channel…

In this article, we generalize a proof technique by Alicki, Fannes and Winter and introduce a method to prove continuity bounds for entropic quantities derived from different quantum relative entropies. For the Umegaki relative entropy, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Andreas Bluhm , Ángela Capel , Paul Gondolf , Antonio Pérez-Hernández

The tight, in a sense, lower estimates of diamond-norm distance from a given quantum channel to the sets of degradable, antidegradable and entanglement-breaking channels are obtained via the tight continuity bounds for quantum mutual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 M. E. Shirokov , A. V. Bulinski

Werner states have a host of interesting properties, which often serve to illuminate the unusual properties of quantum information. Starting from these states, one may define a family of quantum channels, known as the Holevo-Werner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 Thomas P. W. Cope , Kenneth Goodenough , Stefano Pirandola

Tight lower and upper bounds on the ratio of relative entropies of two probability distributions with respect to a common third one are established, where the three distributions are collinear in the standard $(n-1)$-simplex. These bounds…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Shengtian Yang , Jun Chen

We determine the capacity of compound classical-quantum channels. As a consequence we obtain the capacity formula for the averaged classical-quantum channels. The capacity result for compound channels demonstrates, as in the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-16 Igor Bjelakovic , Holger Boche