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

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 $\chi \text{-}$quantity and the existence of $\chi$-optimal ensemble for any quantum channel under the energy-type input constraint.

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