Problem
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private capacity
antidegradability
channel orders
activation
quantum estimation
Quantum estimation, channel orders, and private capacity
🤖 AI Summary
This study investigates the counterintuitive relationship between the private capacity of quantum channels and their anti-degradability, addressing the activation mechanisms of zero-private-capacity channels and the completeness of comparison orderings. Methodologically, it integrates quantum estimation theory, measured χ² divergence, and binary hypothesis testing to construct a Hermitian smoothed measured χ² ordering that characterizes the existence of superactivation. It further proves that complete comparison prevents activation by auxiliary channels, whereas regularized comparison does not. The work establishes precise thresholds linking private capacity to anti-degradability and computes complementary capacities beyond the degradable regime. By extending Pauli half-erasure activation to the full range p ≥ 1/2, this research resolves longstanding theoretical ambiguities in quantum information theory.
📝 Abstract
Recent examples have shown that zero private capacity need not imply antidegradability and that two channels with zero private capacity can nevertheless transmit private information together. Existing entropic channel orders compare what a receiver and its environment can learn and thereby bound capacities. We connect these orders to the recent constructions through binary estimation, whose minimum mean-square error is governed by measured $χ^2$ divergence. A new integral representation shows how measured $χ^2$ on a qubit extension recovers quantum $χ^2$. It lets us pass from complete measured-$χ^2$ ordering to complete quantum-$χ^2$, relative-entropy, and less-noisy ordering. Zhu and Wang used a signed lift to show that their qutrit channel has zero private capacity. We show that Hermitian-smoothed measured-$χ^2$ ordering characterizes when such lifts exist, even with a quantum reference. Environmental dominance in binary estimation at every blocklength yields a finite-code reliability--secrecy bound. These results explain why complete comparison prevents activation with antidegradable helpers whereas regularized comparison alone does not. Building on that qutrit example, we establish this stability for a range of noisy Werner--Holevo channels, determine sharp private-capacity and antidegradability thresholds, and compute exact complementary capacities in a nondegradable range. By contrast, we extend Pauli half-erasure activation to all $1/2\le p<1$ and establish the same range for a new four-level family. Reference-assisted measured-$χ^2$ witnesses show why these activating constructions lack complete comparison.
Innovation
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measured chi-squared divergence
quantum channel orders
private capacity
binary estimation
antidegradability
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