Nonadditivity of quantum and classical capacities for quantum networks with entanglement breaking lines

Andrzej Grudka, Paweł Horodecki

Published Jun 6, 2009• 0 citations

Abstract

We analyze quantum network primitives which are entanglement-breaking. We show superadditivity of quantum and classical capacity regions for quantum multiple-access channel and quantum butterfly network. Since the effects are especially visible at high noise they suggest that quantum information effects may be particularly helpful in the case of the networks with occasional high noise rates. To our knowledge the present effects provide the first qualitative borderline between superadditivities of bipartite and multipartite systems.

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