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On 1-qubit channels

Armin Uhlmann

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0011106

Abstract

The entropy HT(rho) of a state rho with respect to a channel T and the Holevo capacity of the channel require the solution of difficult variational problems. For a class of 1-qubit channels, which contains all the extremal ones, the problem can be significantly simplified by associating an Hermitian antilinear operator theta to every channel of the considered class. The concurrence of the channel can be expressed by theta and turns out to be a flat roof. This allows to write down an explicit expression for HT. Its maximum would give the Holevo (1-shot) capacity.

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