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Quantum Communication
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Smallest output dimension violating minimum output entropy additivity
What is the smallest output dimension in which the minimum output von Neumann entropy of quantum channels fails to be additive?
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Squashed entanglement of the qubit depolarizing channel
What is the squashed entanglement \(E_{\mathrm{sq}}(\Lambda_p)\) of the qubit depolarizing channel, defined for a mixing parameter \(p\in[0,1]\) by
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Private capacity of the qubit depolarizing channel
What is the private classical capacity \(P(\Lambda_p)\) of the qubit depolarizing channel, defined for a mixing parameter \(p\in[0,1]\) by
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Closed-form nonadditivity of the Holevo capacity and entanglement of formation
Construct a simple closed-form or practically computable counterexample to additivity of the Holevo capacity or the entanglement of formation, together with a rigorous certificate of a strict violation.
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The PPT-squared conjecture
Must the composition of any two compatible PPT completely positive maps be entanglement breaking?
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Strict inclusion of degradable channels in the less-noisy class
Do there exist finite-dimensional quantum channels that are less noisy in Watanabe’s regularized sense but are not degradable?
Equivalent question: Regularized less-noisy channels beyond degradability. Counted once in question totals.
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Regularized less-noisy channels beyond degradability
Does there exist a finite-dimensional regularized less-noisy quantum channel that is not degradable?
Equivalent question: Strict inclusion of degradable channels in the less-noisy class. Counted once in question totals.
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Bidirectional classical-communication cost of bipartite channel simulation
What is the asymptotic classical-communication cost of simulating a bipartite quantum channel with bidirectional classical communication and non-signalling assistance?
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Amortization collapse for superchannel divergences
Does amortization collapse for the max-relative entropy and geometric Rényi divergence of arbitrary finite-dimensional quantum superchannels?
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Uniformly efficient HSW pretty-good decoding
Can Holevo–Schumacher–Westmoreland codebooks operating at every rate below their ensemble Holevo information be chosen so that their square-root, or pretty-good, measurements have uniform quantum implementations whose cost is polynomial in the blocklength and…
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Multimode constrained output entropy of a pure-loss channel
Is Guha’s multimode Strong Conjecture 2 true for every correlated input state?
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Universal finite truncation of quantum and private capacities
Do there exist channel-independent finite integers \(m_Q\) and \(m_P\) that determine, respectively, the quantum capacity and the private classical capacity of every finite-dimensional quantum channel?
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Computability of ordinary quantum capacity
Is the ordinary unassisted quantum capacity a computable function of a finite description of a finite-dimensional quantum channel?
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Ordinary-Petz recovery bound for conditional mutual information
Does the ordinary, unrotated Petz map universally recover a tripartite state with fidelity controlled by its conditional mutual information?
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Candidate pure-loss second-order converse
Does the pure-loss bosonic channel admit the following candidate second-order classical converse under a maximum-photon-number occupation constraint?
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Exactly solvable nondegradable quantum channels
Does there exist a finite-dimensional quantum channel that is neither degradable nor antidegradable and whose unassisted quantum capacity is known exactly?
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Structural criterion for classical–entanglement trade-off advantage
Characterize the finite-dimensional quantum channels for which joint classical–entanglement coding strictly outperforms time sharing between unassisted and unlimited-entanglement classical communication.
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Strong converse for general mixed-state quantum compression
Does general finite-dimensional i.i.d.
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Ordinary-Petz fidelity remainder for relative-entropy data processing
Does the ordinary Petz recovery map give a universal fidelity remainder for monotonicity of quantum relative entropy?
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All-code exponential strong converse for degradable channels
Does every finite-dimensional degradable quantum channel satisfy an all-code exponential strong converse for quantum communication at its quantum capacity?
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Diamond-smoothed max-relative-entropy AEP for quantum channels
Does the max-relative entropy of finite-dimensional quantum channels satisfy an asymptotic equipartition property under uniform diamond-norm smoothing?
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Quantum capacity of the Gaussian random-displacement channel
What is the unconstrained, unassisted quantum capacity of the single-mode Gaussian random-displacement channel?
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Equal-weight low-Choi-rank decompositions of quantum channels
Can every finite-dimensional quantum channel be written as the uniform mixture of \(d_B\) channels whose Choi ranks are at most the input dimension?
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Nontrivial mutually degradable channel pairs
Does there exist an integer \(d\geq2\) and a pair of distinct channels \(\mathcal M,\mathcal N:\mathcal L(A)\to\mathcal L(B)\), with \(A\simeq B\simeq\mathbb C^d\), that both have Choi rank exactly \(d\), are mutually degradable, and are each nondegradable?
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Umegaki relative entropy of local recovery
Does the conditional mutual information of every finite-dimensional tripartite state dominate its Umegaki relative entropy of local recovery?
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Multiplicativity for polarized Werner–Holevo channels
For every integer \(d\geq3\), every \(x\in(0,1)\), and every \(1<p<2\), is the maximal output Schatten \(p\)-norm of the polarized Werner–Holevo channel multiplicative on two identical copies?
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Delayed-onset additivity violation for minimum output Rényi entropy
Does there exist a finite-dimensional quantum channel whose minimum output Rényi entropy is additive for every tensor power below some order and first becomes strictly subadditive at that order?
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Exponential strong converse for transpose-degradable channels
Does every finite-dimensional transpose-degradable channel satisfy an exponential strong converse for quantum communication at its single-letter quantum capacity?
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Transpose degradability beyond degradability
Does there exist a finite-dimensional transpose-degradable quantum channel that is not degradable?
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Minimal dimensions for strict transpose degradability
What are the componentwise-minimal dimension triples \((d_A,d_B,d_E)\) that admit a transpose-degradable but nondegradable channel?
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Fixed-error parallel Stein lemma for quantum channels
Let \(\mathcal N,\mathcal M:\mathcal L(A)\to\mathcal L(B)\) be quantum channels on finite-dimensional systems.
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Positivity threshold for thermal-attenuator quantum capacity
For \(0<\eta<1\) and \(0<\nu<\infty\), let the single-mode bosonic thermal attenuator be
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Quantum capacity of a qubit Pauli channel
What is the quantum capacity \(\mathcal{Q}(\Lambda_{\mathbf p})\) of the qubit Pauli channel defined by
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One-bit simulation of partially entangled qubits
Can shared randomness and one classical bit exactly simulate every pair of local projective measurements on every pure entangled two-qubit state?
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Trace-exponential lower bound for matrix-word averages
Is the normalized trace average of all words in two positive-definite matrices always bounded below by the corresponding trace exponential?
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Quantum capacity of a bosonic thermal attenuator
Let \(\Phi_{\eta,\nu}\) be the single-mode bosonic thermal attenuator with transmissivity \(0<\eta<1\) and environmental mean photon number \(0<\nu<\infty\), defined by
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Polynomial shared-resource lower bounds for routing
Does an explicit total Boolean family require polynomial shared-state cost for bounded-error one-round \(f\)-routing?
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Energy-constrained quantum capacity of a thermal attenuator
For \(0<\eta<1\) and \(0<\nu<\infty\), let the single-mode bosonic thermal attenuator be
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Two-way quantum capacity: amplitude-damping channel
What is the two-way quantum capacity \(\mathcal{Q}_2(\mathcal A_p)\) of the qubit amplitude-damping channel
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Square-root remainder in generalized quantum equipartition
Let \(H\) be a \(d\)-dimensional Hilbert space.
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Capacity-achieving codes for amplitude damping
What is the constructive quantum code for achieving the quantum capacity \(\mathcal{Q}(\mathcal A_p)\) of the qubit amplitude-damping channel
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