Additivity in classical-quantum wiretap channels
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Tikku, Arkin
Renes, Joseph M
Berta, Mario
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Due to Csiszár and Körner, the 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 how much quantumness is needed to witness non-additivity phenomena in Shannon information 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 in the wiretap model quantum adversaries are strictly different from classical adversaries.
Date Issued
2020-06
Date Acceptance
2020-05-01
Citation
2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2020, pp.1996-2001
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
1996
End Page
2001
Journal / Book Title
2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
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Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9174320
Source
2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2020-06-21
Finish Date
2020-06-26
Coverage Spatial
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Date Publish Online
2020-08-24