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Superadditivity of the Classical Capacity with Limited Entanglement Assistance

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Zhu, Elton; Zhuang, Quntao; Shor, Peter Williston
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Abstract
Finding the optimal encoding strategies can be challenging for communication using quantum channels, as classical and quantum capacities may be superadditive. Entanglement assistance can often simplify this task, as the entanglement-assisted classical capacity for any channel is additive, making entanglement across channel uses unnecessary. If the entanglement assistance is limited, the picture is much more unclear. Suppose the classical capacity is superadditive, then the classical capacity with limited entanglement assistance could retain superadditivity by continuity arguments. If the classical capacity is additive, it is unknown if superadditivity can still be developed with limited entanglement assistance. We show this is possible, by providing an example. We construct a channel for which the classical capacity is additive, but that with limited entanglement assistance can be superadditive. This shows entanglement plays a weird role in communication, and we still understand very little about it.
Date issued
2017-07
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111581
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Zhu, Elton Yechao, et al. "Superadditivity of the Classical Capacity with Limited Entanglement Assistance." Physical Review Letters 119, 4 (July 2017): 040503 © 2017 American Physical Society
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0031-9007
1079-7114

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