Non-additivity in classical-quantum wiretap channels
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Tikku, Arkin
Berta, Mario
Renes, Joseph M
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Due to Csiszár and Körner, the private capacity of classical wiretap channels has a single-letter characterization in terms of the private information. For quantum wiretap channels, however, it is known that regularization of the private information is necessary to reach the capacity. Here, we study hybrid classical-quantum wiretap channels in order to resolve to what extent quantum effects are needed to witness non-additivity phenomena in quantum Shannon theory. For wiretap channels with quantum inputs but classical outputs, we prove that the characterization of the capacity in terms of the private information stays single-letter. Hence, entangled input states are of no asymptotic advantage in this setting. For wiretap channels with classical inputs, we show by means of explicit examples that the private information already becomes non-additive when either one of the two receivers becomes quantum (with the other receiver staying classical). This gives non-additivity examples that are not caused by entanglement and illustrates that quantum adversaries are strictly different from classical adversaries in the wiretap model.
Date Issued
2020-08
Date Acceptance
2020-07-24
Citation
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 2020, 1 (2), pp.526-535
ISSN
2641-8770
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
526
End Page
535
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
Volume
1
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
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Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9165849
Subjects
quant-ph
quant-ph
cs.IT
math.IT
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-08-12