The platypus of the quantum channel zoo

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08380v2
• Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 17:25:43 GMT
• Title: The platypus of the quantum channel zoo
• Authors: Felix Leditzky and Debbie Leung and Vikesh Siddhu and Graeme Smith and John A. Smolin
• Abstract summary: We study a simple, low-dimensional family of quantum channels with exotic quantum information-theoretic features. We generalize the qutrit channel in two ways, and the resulting channels and their capacities display similarly rich behavior.
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• Abstract: Understanding quantum channels and the strange behavior of their capacities is a key objective of quantum information theory. Here we study a remarkably simple, low-dimensional, single-parameter family of quantum channels with exotic quantum information-theoretic features. As the simplest example from this family, we focus on a qutrit-to-qutrit channel that is intuitively obtained by hybridizing together a simple degradable channel and a completely useless qubit channel. Such hybridizing makes this channel's capacities behave in a variety of interesting ways. For instance, the private and classical capacity of this channel coincide and can be explicitly calculated, even though the channel does not belong to any class for which the underlying information quantities are known to be additive. Moreover, the quantum capacity of the channel can be computed explicitly, given a clear and compelling conjecture is true. This "spin alignment conjecture," which may be of independent interest, is proved in certain special cases and additional numerical evidence for its validity is provided. Finally, we generalize the qutrit channel in two ways, and the resulting channels and their capacities display similarly rich behavior. In the companion paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 200801 (2023); arXiv:2202.08377], we further show that the qutrit channel demonstrates superadditivity when transmitting quantum information jointly with a variety of assisting channels, in a manner unknown before.

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