Energy-constrained diamond norms and their use in quantum information theory

Abstract

We consider the family of energy-constrained diamond norms on the set of Hermitian-preserving linear maps (superoperators) between Banach spaces of trace class operators. We prove that any norm from this family generates the strong (pointwise) convergence on the set of all quantum channels (which is more adequate for describing variations of infinite-dimensional channels than the diamond norm topology). We obtain continuity bounds for information characteristics (in particular, classical capacities) of energy-constrained quantum channels (as functions of a channel) with respect to the energy-constrained diamond norms which imply uniform continuity of these characteristics with respect to the strong convergence topology.