Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Abstract
A strong converse theorem for the classical capacity of a quantum channel states that the probability of correctly decoding a classical message converges exponentially fast to zero in the limit of many channel uses if the rate of communication exceeds the classical capacity of the channel. Along with a corresponding achievability statement for rates below the capacity, such a strong converse theorem enhances our understanding of the capacity as a very sharp dividing line between achievable and unachievable rates of communication. Here, we show that such a strong converse theorem holds for the classical capacity of all entanglement-breaking channels and all Hadamard channels (the complementary channels of the former). These results follow by bounding the success probability in terms of a "sandwiched" Rényi relative entropy, by showing that this quantity is subadditive for all entanglement-breaking and Hadamard channels, and by relating this quantity to the Holevo capacity. Prior results regarding strong converse theorems for particular covariant channels emerge as a special case of our results. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Communications in Mathematical Physics
First Page
593
Last Page
622
Recommended Citation
Wilde, M., Winter, A., & Yang, D. (2014). Strong Converse for the Classical Capacity of Entanglement-Breaking and Hadamard Channels via a Sandwiched Rényi Relative Entropy. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 331 (2), 593-622. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-014-2122-x