We study asymmetric binary channel discrimination, for qantum channels acting on separable Hilbert spaces. We establish quantum Stein's lemma for channels for both adaptive and parallel strategies, and show that under finiteness of the geometric Rényi divergence between the two channels for some
α>1, adaptive strategies offer no asymptotic advantage over parallel ones. One major step in our argument is to demonstrate that the geometric Rényi divergence satisfies a chain rule and is additive for channels also in infinite dimensions. These results may be of independent interest. Furthermore, we not only show asymptotic equivalence of parallel and adaptive strategies, but explicitly construct a parallel strategy which approximates a given adaptive
n-shot strategy, and give an explicit bound on the difference between the discrimination errors for these two strategies. This extends the finite dimensional result from [B. Bergh et al., arxiv:2206.08350]. Finally, this also allows us to conclude, that the chain rule for the Umegaki relative entropy in infinite dimensions, recently shown in [O. Fawzi, L. Gao, and M. Rahaman, arxiv:2212.14700v2] given finiteness of the max divergence between the two channels, also holds under the weaker condition of finiteness of the geometric Rényi divergence. We give explicit examples of channels which show that these two finiteness conditions are not equivalent.
We consider the optimal approximate conversion between multiple copies of pure entangled states in quantum systems when only local operations and classical communications (LOCC) are allowed. This problem contains a kind of cloning problem with LOCC restriction as a special case. To derive the asymptotic LOCC conversion rate, we consider two kinds of approximate conversions, deterministic conversion and majorization conversion, for probability distributions, and solve their asymptotic conversion rates up to the second order. Then, the asymptotic LOCC conversion rate is obtained via the natural relation between the LOCC conversion and the majorization conversion. To derive these asymptotic rates, we introduce new probability distributions named Rayleigh-normal distributions. The family of Rayleigh-normal distributions includes a Rayleigh distribution and coincides with the standard normal distribution in the limit case, and the optimal conversion rate is represented by Rayleigh-normal distribution in a unified manner.
We prove that the regularized, stabilized sandwiched Rényi divergence of finite-dimensional quantum channels converges to their regularized relative entropy as the Rényi order tends to one. The key tool is the channel hockey-stick divergence: Gour's Stinespring approximation bound and a Schatten norm estimate amplify an asymptotic bound below one into exponential decay at higher threshold rates. For channel pairs with finite max-relative entropy, known operational connections then give exponential strong converses for parallel and adaptive discrimination, a sharp zero--one testing law, and the subchannel asymptotic equipartition property.