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Quantum Capacity of Partially Corrupted Quantum Network

Quantum Physics 2020-07-22 v1

Abstract

We discuss a quantum network, in which the sender has m0m_0 outgoing channels, the receiver has m0m_0 incoming channels, each channel is of capacity dd, each intermediate node applies invertible unitary, only m1m_1 channels are corrupted, and other non-corrupted channels are noiseless. As our result, we show that the quantum capacity is not smaller than (m02m1+1)logd(m_0-2m_1+1)\log d under the following two settings. In the first case, the unitaries on intermediate nodes are arbitrary and the corruptions on the m1m_1 channels are individual. In the second case, the unitaries on intermediate nodes are restricted to Clifford operations and the corruptions on the m1m_1 channels are adaptive, i.e., the attacker is allowed to have a quantum memory. Further, our code in the second case realizes the noiseless communication even with the single-shot setting and is constructed dependently only on the network topology and the places of the m1m_1 corrupted channels while this result holds regardless of the network topology and the places.

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@article{arxiv.1911.02860,
  title  = {Quantum Capacity of Partially Corrupted Quantum Network},
  author = {Masahito Hayashi and Seunghoan Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.02860},
  year   = {2020}
}
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