Many-body physics and the capacity of quantum channels with memory

M B Plenio, S. Virmani

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Abstract

In most studies of the capacity of quantum channels, it is assumed that the errors in the use of each channel are independent. However, recent work has begun to investigate the effects of memory or correlations in the error, and has led to suggestions that there can be interesting on-analytic behaviour in the capacity of such channels. In a previous paper, we pursued this issue by connecting the study of channel capacities under correlated error to the study of critical behaviour in many-body physics. This connection enables the use of techniques from many-body physics to either completely solve or understand qualitatively a number of interesting models of correlated error with analogous behaviour to associated many-body systems. However, in order for this approach to work rigorously, there are a number of technical properties that need to be established for the lattice systems being considered. In this paper, we discuss these properties in detail, and establish them for some classes of many-body system.
Original languageEnglish
Article number043032
Number of pages33
JournalNew Journal of Physics
Volume10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2008

Keywords

  • computational physics
  • quantum information
  • quantum mechanics
  • optics

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