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View SchemaClassical capacity of the lossy bosonic channel: the exact solution
| Authors | Vittorio Giovannetti, Saikat Guha, Seth Lloyd, Lorenzo Maccone, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Horace P. Yuen |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0308012 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0308012 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.027902 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 027902 (2004). |
Abstract
The classical capacity of the lossy bosonic channel is calculated exactly. It is shown that its Holevo information is not superadditive, and that a coherent-state encoding achieves capacity. The capacity of far-field, free-space optical communications is given as an example.
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