Holevo capacity of a qubit depolarizing channel
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For the retention parameter , the Holevo capacity isEvery output has Von Neumann entropy at least the value on a pure input, . Two equiprobable orthogonal pure inputs attain this minimum entropy individually and have maximally mixed average output, attaining the bound. Additivity of Holevo capacity makes the unassisted classical capacity of a quantum channel equal to this value. King's depolarizing-channel capacity paper proves additivity with an arbitrary other channel.
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