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Nonconvexity of private capacity and classical environment-assisted capacity of a quantum channel

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Elkouss, D 

Abstract

The capacity of classical channels is convex. This is not the case for the quantum capacity of a channel: The capacity of a mixture of different quantum channels exceeds the mixture of the individual capacities and thus is nonconvex. Here we show that this effect goes beyond the quantum capacity and holds for the private and classical environment-assisted capacities of quantum channels.

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Keywords

5108 Quantum Physics, 51 Physical Sciences

Journal Title

Physical Review A

Conference Name

Journal ISSN

2469-9926
2469-9934

Volume Title

94

Publisher

American Physical Society
Sponsorship
European Commission (600700)
S.S. acknowledges the support of Sidney Sussex College and European Union under project QALGO (Grant Agreement No. 600700). D.E. has been partially supported by STW, the NWO Vidi grant “Large quantum networks from small quantum devices,” and by the project HyQuNet (Grant No. TEC2012-35673), funded by Ministerio de Econom´ıa y Competitividad (MINECO), Spain.