Entanglement-Assisted Capacity of Quantum Multiple-Access Channels

  • Authors:
  • Min-Hsiu Hsieh;I. Devetak;A. Winter

  • Affiliations:
  • Electr. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We find a regularized formula for the entanglement-assisted (EA) capacity region for quantum multiple-access channels (QMAC). We illustrate the capacity region calculation with the example of the collective phase-flip channel which admits a single-letter characterization. On the way, we provide a first-principles proof of the EA coding theorem based on a packing argument. We observe that the Holevo-Schumacher-Westmoreland theorem may be obtained from a modification of our EA protocol. We remark on the existence of a family hierarchy of protocols for multiparty scenarios with a single receiver, in analogy to the two-party case. In this way, we relate several previous results regarding QMACs.