Classical capacities of compound and averaged quantum channels

Igor Bjelaković, Holger Boche

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Abstract

We determine the capacity of compound classical-quantum channels. As a consequence, we obtain the capacity formula for the averaged classical-quantum channels. The capacity result for compound channels demonstrates, as in the classical setting, the existence of reliable universal classical-quantum codes in scenarios where the only a priori information about the channel used for the transmission of information is that it belongs to a given set of memoryless classical-quantum channels. Our approach is based on a universal classical approximation of the quantum relative entropy which in turn relies on a universal hypothesis testing result.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3360-3374
Number of pages15
JournalIEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Volume55
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Averaged quantum channels
  • Capacity
  • Coding theorem
  • Compound quantum channels
  • Universal quantum codes

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