Quantum capacity is properly defined without encodings
- 1 November 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 58 (5) , 3496-3501
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.58.3496
Abstract
We show that no source encoding is needed in the definition of the capacity of a quantum channel for carrying quantum information. This allows us to use the coherent information maximized over all sources and block sizes, but not encodings, to bound the quantum capacity. We perform an explicit calculation of this maximum coherent information for the quantum erasure channel and apply the bound in order find the erasure channel’s capacity without relying on an unproven assumption as in an earlier paper.Keywords
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