Continuity of quantum channel capacities

Details Continuity of quantum channel capacities Continuity of quantum channel capacities

2008-10-27

arxiv.org/abs/0810.4931v2

Comm. Math. Phys. 292, 201-215 (2009)

Physics

Quantum Physics

12 pages, Revised according to referee's suggestions

Scientific paper

10.1007/s00220-009-0833-1

We prove that a broad array of capacities of a quantum channel are continuous. That is, two channels that are close with respect to the diamond norm have correspondingly similar communication capabilities. We first show that the classical capacity, quantum capacity, and private classical capacity are continuous, with the variation on arguments epsilon apart bounded by a simple function of epsilon and the channel's output dimension. Our main tool is an upper bound of the variation of output entropies of many copies of two nearby channels given the same initial state; the bound is linear in the number of copies. Our second proof is concerned with the quantum capacities in the presence of free backward or two-way public classical communication. These capacities are proved continuous on the interior of the set of non-zero capacity channels by considering mutual simulation between similar channels.

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