2025/09/11 by Snehasish Roy Chowdhury, Sutapa Saha, Chowdhury, Snehasish Roy +6
Computer Science · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Molecular Communication and Nanonetworks #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2509.09340
openalex publication_date 2025/09/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
For any quantum transmission line, with smaller output dimension than its input, the number of classical symbols that can be reliably encoded is strictly suboptimal. In other words, if the channel outputs a lesser number of symbols than it intakes, then rest of the symbols eventually leak into the environment, during the transmission. Can these lost symbols be recovered with minimal help from the environment? While the standard notion of environment-assisted classical capacity fails to fully capture this scenario, we introduce a generalized framework to address this question. Using an elegant example, we first demonstrate that the encoding capability of a quantum channel can be optimally restored with a minimal assistance of environment, albeit possessing suboptimal capacity in the conventional sense. Remarkably, we further prove that even the strongest two-input-two-output non-signaling correlations between sender and receiver cannot substitute for this assistance. Finally, we characterize a class of quantum channels, in arbitrary dimensions, exhibiting a sharp separation between the conventional environment-assisted capacity and the true potential for unlocking their encoding strength.