Strong converse for the quantum capacity of the pure-loss bosonic channel

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16608v1
• Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:10:13 GMT
• Title: Strong converse for the quantum capacity of the pure-loss bosonic channel
• Abstract summary: The entanglement-generation fidelity of every code is bounded by a constant times the reciprocal of the number of channel uses.<n>The proof combines quantum Chebyshev and hockey-stick testing inequalities with a uniform relative-entropy-variance bound for the balanced pure-loss channel.<n>The resulting argument establishes the strong converse at the unconstrained quantum capacity for every pure-loss bosonic channel.
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• Abstract: This paper reports the proof of a strong converse for the unconstrained quantum capacity of the pure-loss bosonic channel. At every fixed rate above capacity, the entanglement-generation fidelity of every code is bounded by a constant times the reciprocal of the number of channel uses. The bound holds without an energy constraint and for arbitrary encoded states, including states correlated across all input modes, and arbitrary joint decoders. The proof combines quantum Chebyshev and hockey-stick testing inequalities with a uniform relative-entropy-variance bound for the balanced pure-loss channel, corresponding to transmissivity $η=1/2$. The variance bound follows by expressing the balanced beam splitter in bright and dark modes: the dark modes are exactly in vacuum, and any state orthogonal to that vacuum contains at least one dark photon. For general transmissivity, dilating the degrading attenuator reduces the problem to this balanced-channel setting and bounds the decoder test by precisely the factor that produces the known quantum-capacity threshold. The resulting argument establishes the strong converse at the unconstrained quantum capacity for every pure-loss bosonic channel.

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