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Additivity for some product channels

Christopher King

Published Jan 1, 2001• 0 citations

Abstract

We show that the Holevo bound, the minimal entropy, and the maximal p-norm are additive (respectively multiplicative) for some product quantum channels. The implications for information capacity of quantum channels are discussed.

DOI: 10.1364/icqi.2001.pb31

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