Lower semicontinuity of the entropic disturbance and its applications in quantum information theory

TL;DR

This paper proves the lower semicontinuity of the entropic disturbance in infinite-dimensional quantum channels, leading to important implications for the continuity of the output -quantity and the existence of optimal ensembles under energy constraints.

Contribution

It establishes the lower semicontinuity of the entropic disturbance in infinite-dimensional quantum channels, a key property with several applications in quantum information theory.

Findings

Proves lower semicontinuity of entropic disturbance for infinite-dimensional channels

Shows continuity of the output -quantity under energy constraints

Demonstrates existence of -optimal ensembles for quantum channels

Abstract

We prove that for any infinite-dimensional quantum channel the entropic disturbance (defined as difference between the $\chi$-quantity of a generalized ensemble and that of the image of the ensemble under the channel) is lower semicontinuous on the natural set of its definition. We establish a number of useful corollaries of this property, in particular, we prove the continuity of the output $\chi\textrm{-}$quantity and the existence of $\chi$-optimal ensemble for any quantum channel under the energy-type input constraint.