One-mode bosonic Gaussian channels: a full weak-degradability classification
Filippo Caruso, Vittorio Giovannetti, Alexander Semenovich Holevo · New Journal of Physics · 2006
A complete degradability analysis of one-mode bosonic Gaussian channels is presented. We show that apart from the class of channels which are unitarily equivalent to the channels with additive classical noise, these maps can be characterized in terms of weak- and/or anti-degradability. Furthermore a new set of channels which have null quantum capacity is identified. This is done by exploiting the composition rules of one-mode Gaussian maps and the fact that anti-degradable channels cannot be used to transfer quantum information.