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arXiv:1908.01614 · Physical Review Letters

Efficient Accessible Bounds to the Classical Capacity of Quantum Channels

Chiara Macchiavello, Massimiliano Federico Sacchi

Published Aug 28, 2019• 9 citations
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Abstract

We present a method to detect lower bounds to the classical capacity of quantum communication channels by means of few local measurements (i.e., without complete process tomography), reconstruction of sets of conditional probabilities, and classical optimization. The method does not require any a priori information about the channel. We illustrate its performance for significant forms of noisy channels.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.123.090503

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