Maksim E. Shirokov

Mutual and coherent information for infinite-dimensional quantum channels

The paper is devoted to the study of quantum mutual information and coherent information, two important characteristics of a quantum communication channel. Appropriate definitions of these quantities in the infinite-dimensional case are given, and their properties are studied in detail. Basic identities relating the quantum mutual information and coherent information of a pair of complementary channels are proved. An unexpected continuity property of the quantum mutual information and coherent information, following from the above identities, is observed. An upper bound for the coherent information is obtained.

On the Energy-Constrained Diamond Norm and Its Application in Quantum Information Theory

We consider a family of energy-constrained diamond norms on the set of Hermitian- preserving linear maps (superoperators) between Banach spaces of trace class operators. We prove that any norm from this family generates strong (pointwise) convergence on the set of all quantum channels (which is more adequate for describing variations of infinite-dimensional channels than the diamond norm topology). We obtain continuity bounds for information characteristics (in particular, classical capacities) of energy-constrained infinite-dimensional quantum channels (as functions of a channel) with respect to the energy-constrained diamond norms, which imply uniform continuity of these characteristics with respect to the strong convergence topology.

On classical capacities of infinite-dimensional quantum channels

A coding theorem for entanglement-assisted communication via an infinite-dimensional quantum channel with linear constraints is extended to a natural degree of generality. Relations between the entanglement-assisted classical capacity and χ-capacity of constrained channels are obtained, and conditions for their coincidence are given. Sufficient conditions for continuity of the entanglement-assisted classical capacity as a function of a channel are obtained. Some applications of the obtained results to analysis of Gaussian channels are considered. A general (continuous) version of the fundamental relation between coherent information and the measure of privacy of classical information transmission via an infinite-dimensional quantum channel is proved.

Conditions for coincidence of the classical capacity and entanglement-assisted capacity of a quantum channel

Several relations between the Holevo capacity and 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 capacities coincide if (respectively, only if) the channel (respectively, the χ-essential part of the channel) belongs to the class of classical-quantum channels (the χ-essential part is a restriction of a channel obtained by discarding all states that are useless for transmission of classical information). The obtained conditions and their corollaries are generalized to channels with linear constraints. By using these conditions it is shown that the question of coincidence of the Holevo capacity and entanglement-assisted classical capacity depends on the form of a constraint. Properties of the difference between quantum mutual information and the χ-function of a quantum channel are explored.

On superactivation of one-shot quantum zero-error capacity and the related property of quantum measurements

We give a detailed description of a low-dimensional quantum channel (input dimension 4, Choi rank 3) demonstrating the symmetric form of superactivation of one-shot quantum zero-error capacity. This property means appearance of a noiseless (perfectly reversible) subchannel in the tensor square of a channel having no noiseless subchannels. Then we describe a quantum channel with an arbitrary given level of symmetric superactivation (including the infinite value). We also show that superactivation of one-shot quantum zero-error capacity of a channel can be reformulated in terms of quantum measurement theory as appearance of an indistinguishable subspace for the tensor product of two observables having no indistinguishable subspaces.

On multipartite superactivation of quantum channel capacities

We consider a generalization of the notion of superactivation of quantum channel capacities to the case of n > 2 channels. An explicit example of such superactivation for the 1-shot quantum zero-error capacity is constructed for n = 3. An interpretation of this example in terms of quantum measurements is given.

Estimates for discontinuity jumps of information characteristics of quantum systems and channels

Quantitative analysis of discontinuity of information characteristics of quantum states and channels is presented. Estimates for discontinuity jump (loss) of the von Neumann entropy for a given converging sequence of states are obtained. It is shown, in particular, that for any sequence the loss of entropy is upper bounded by the loss of mean energy (with the coefficient characterizing the Hamiltonian of a system). Then we prove that discontinuity jumps of basic measures of classical and quantum correlations in composite quantum systems are upper bounded by the loss of one of the marginal entropies (with a corresponding coefficient). Quantitative discontinuity analysis of the output entropy of a quantum operation and of basic information characteristics of a quantum channel considered as functions of a pair (channel, input state) is presented.