title: Teleportation as a depolarizing quantum channel, relative entropy, and classical capacity.
abstract: We show that standard teleportation with an arbitrary mixed state resource is equivalent to a generalized depolarizing channel with probabilities given by the maximally entangled components of the resource. This enables the usage of any quantum channel as a generalized depolarizing channel without additional twirling operations. It also provides a nontrivial upper bound on the entanglement of a class of mixed states. Our result allows a consistent and statistically motivated quantification of teleportation success in terms of the relative entropy and this quantification can be related to a classical capacity.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom. g.bowen1@physics.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bowen
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bose