Quantum state majorization at the output of bosonic Gaussian channels

Quantum communication theory explores the implications of quantum mechanics to the tasks of information transmission. Many physical channels can be formally described as quantum Gaussian operations acting on bosonic quantum states. Depending on the input state and on the quality of the channel, the...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2015-05
Main Authors: Mari, Andrea, Giovannetti, Vittorio, Holevo, Alexander S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Channels
Coherence
Communication theory
Optimization
Quantum mechanics
Quantum theory
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Summary:Quantum communication theory explores the implications of quantum mechanics to the tasks of information transmission. Many physical channels can be formally described as quantum Gaussian operations acting on bosonic quantum states. Depending on the input state and on the quality of the channel, the output suffers certain amount of noise. For a long time it has been conjectured, but never proved, that output states of Gaussian channels corresponding to coherent input signals are the less noisy ones (in the sense of a majorization criterion). In this work we prove this conjecture. Specifically we show that every output state of a phase insensitive Gaussian channel is majorized by the output state corresponding to a coherent input. The proof is based on the optimality of coherent states for the minimization of strictly concave output functionals. Moreover we show that coherent states are the unique optimizers.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1312.3545