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Improving classical capacity of qubit dynamical maps through stationary state manipulation

Quantum Physics 2023-05-24 v2

Abstract

We analyze the evolution of Holevo and entanglement-assisted classical capacities for a special class of phase-covariant channels. In particular, we show that these capacities can be improved by changing the stationary state of the channel, which is closely related to its non-unitality degree. The more non-unital the channel, the greater its capacity. The channel parameters are engineered through mixtures on the level of dynamical maps, time-local generators, and memory kernels, for which we propose construction methods. For highly non-unital maps, we achieve a temporary increase in the classical capacity that exceeds the entanglement-assisted classical capacity of the unital map. This shows that non-unitality can become a better quantum resource for information transition purposes than quantum entanglement.

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@article{arxiv.2302.11519,
  title  = {Improving classical capacity of qubit dynamical maps through stationary state manipulation},
  author = {Katarzyna Siudzińska},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.11519},
  year   = {2023}
}
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