Additivity conjecture for minimum output entropy of quantum channels

Let a quantum channel be a linear completely positive trace-preserving map Φ:Mn(C)Mk(C)\Phi:\mathcal{M}_n(\mathbb{C})\to\mathcal{M}_k(\mathbb{C}). Its minimum output entropy is

Hmin(Φ)=minρMn(C), ρ0Trρ=1H(Φ(ρ)),H_{\min}(\Phi)=\min_{\substack{\rho\in\mathcal{M}_n(\mathbb{C}),\ \rho\geqslant 0\\ \operatorname{Tr}\rho=1}}H(\Phi(\rho)),

where H(ρ)=Tr(ρlogρ)H(\rho)=-\operatorname{Tr}(\rho\log\rho). Additivity conjecture. For all quantum channels Φ1\Phi_1 and Φ2\Phi_2, one has

Hmin(Φ1Φ2)=Hmin(Φ1)+Hmin(Φ2).H_{\min}(\Phi_1\otimes\Phi_2)=H_{\min}(\Phi_1)+H_{\min}(\Phi_2).

This conjecture was disproved by Hastings, who exhibited a counterexample for the choice Φ1=Φ2\Phi_1=\overline{\Phi_2}; consequently, the asserted additivity does not hold for all quantum channels.

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Primary source

Benoît Collins and Ion Nechita, “Gaussianization and eigenvalue statistics for random quantum channels (III)”, arXiv:0910.1768 (2012).

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