Squashed entanglement and the two-way assisted capacities of a quantum channel
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Abstract
We define the squashed entanglement of a quantum channel as the maximum squashed entanglement that can be registered by a sender and receiver at the input and output of a quantum channel, respectively. A new subadditivity inequality for the original squashed entanglement measure of Christandl and Winter leads to the conclusion that the squashed entanglement of a quantum channel is an additive function of a tensor product of any two quantum channels. More importantly, this new subadditivity inequality, along with prior results of Christandl, Winter, et al., establishes the squashed entanglement of a quantum channel as an upper bound on the quantum communication capacity of any channel assisted by unlimited forward and backward classical communication. A similar proof establishes this quantity as an upper bound on the private capacity of a quantum channel assisted by unlimited forward and backward public classical communication. This latter result is relevant as a limitation on rates achievable in quantum key distribution. As an important application, we determine that these capacities can never exceed log((1 + η)=(1 - η)) for a pure-loss bosonic channel for which a fraction η of the input photons make it to the output on average. The best known lower bound on these capacities is equal to log(1=(1 - η)). Thus, in the high-loss regime for which η ≪ 1, this new upper bound demonstrates that the protocols corresponding to the above lower bound are nearly optimal. © 2014 IEEE.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
First Page
326
Last Page
330
Recommended Citation
Takeoka, M., Guha, S., & Wilde, M. (2014). Squashed entanglement and the two-way assisted capacities of a quantum channel. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings, 326-330. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2014.6874848