Majorization theory approach to the Gaussian channel minimum entropy conjecture

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  García Patrón, Raúl ^a,b   Navarrete Benlloch, Carlos ^a,b,c   Lloyd, Seth ^a   Shapiro, Jeffrey H ^a   Cerf, Nicolas J ^a,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSONIC CHANNELS; COHERENT STATE; GAUSSIAN CHANNELS; GAUSSIANS; IN-PHASE; MAJORIZATION THEORY; MINIMUM ENTROPY; OPEN PROBLEMS; QUANTUM INFORMATION THEORY; RANDOM CODING;

ENTROPY; INFORMATION THEORY; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHASE SPACE METHODS;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84858411842     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.110505     Document Type: Article

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