title: Capacity of quantum erasure channel assisted by backwards classical communication.
abstract: We present a communication protocol for the erasure channel assisted by backward classical communication, which achieves a significantly better rate than the best prior result. In addition, we prove an upper bound for the capacity of the channel. The upper bound is smaller than the capacity of the erasure channel when it is assisted by two-way classical communication. Thus, we prove the separation between quantum capacities assisted by backward classical communication and two-way classical communication.
authors.affiliation: Department of Combinatorics and Optimization and Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1. wcleung@iqc.ca
authors.forename: Debbie
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Leung
authors.forename: Joungkeun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shor