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Classical capacity of the lossy bosonic channel: the exact solution

Vittorio Giovannetti, Saikat Guha, Seth Lloyd, Lorenzo Maccone, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Horace P. Yuen

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0308012

Abstract

The classical capacity of the lossy bosonic channel is calculated exactly. It is shown that its Holevo information is not superadditive, and that a coherent-state encoding achieves capacity. The capacity of far-field, free-space optical communications is given as an example.

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