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Paper
Bounds on classical information capacities for a class of quantum memory channels
Abstract
The maximum rates for information transmission through noisy quantum channels has primarily been developed for memoryless channels, where the noise on each transmitted state is treated as independent. Many real-world communication channels experience noise which is modeled better by errors that are correlated between separate channel uses. In this Brief Report, upper bounds on the classical information capacities of a class of quantum memory channels are derived. The class of channels consists of indecomposable quantum memory channels, a generalization of classical indecomposable finite-state channels. © 2005 The American Physical Society.