COMMUNICATING THE QUANTUM WAY

The book consists of scientific essays dedicated to A S Holevo on the occasion of his 80th birthday, written by prominent researchers in theoretical-mathematical physics. It is a snapshot of contemporary research at the frontier of quantum information science, work that builds on Holevo's pioneering contributions during the decades of his distinguished career.

While a portion of the book are the 15 articles published in a special issue of IJQI, the book contains additional material such as a summary of Holevo's scientific life, with comments on research directions not covered in the 15 articles, and the list of his publications.

Contents:

• Preface
• Authors
• A S HOLEVO'S SCIENTIFIC CURRICULUM:
  • Alexander Semenovich Holevo: Quantum Information, Quantum Computation (Interview conducted by Yu Kiang Leong on 25 August 2008)
  • Alexander S Holevo's Scientific Journey (Grigori G Amosov and Maksim Shirokov)
  • Alexander S Holevo's Researches in Quantum Information Theory (Masahito Hayashi)
• CAPACITY THEORY:
  • Classical Capacity of Quantum Non-Gaussian Attenuator and Amplifier Channels (Zacharie Van Herstraeten, Saikat Guha, and Nicolas J Cerf)
  • Quantum Soft-Covering Lemma with Applications (Touheed Anwar Atif, S Sandeep Pradhan, and Andreas Winter)
  • Postselected Communication over Quantum Channels (Kaiyuan Ji, Bartosz Regula, and Mark M Wilde)
• STATISTICAL STRUCTURE:
  • Symbols of Mixed Unitary Quantum Channels Generated by Finite Unitary Groups (Grigori G Amosov and Danil D Cheremukhin)
  • Extreme Quantum States and Processes, and Extreme Points of General Spectrahedral (Giulio Chiribella)
  • Encoding and Decoding of Information in General Probabilistic Theories (Teiko Heinosaari, Leevi Leppäjärvi, and Martin Plávala)
  • Proof of the Orthogonal Measurement Conjecture for Qubit States (Andreas Keil)
• CONTINUOUS QUANTUM DYNAMICS:
  • Hybrid Quantum-Classical Systems: Quasi-Free Markovian Dynamics (Alberto Barchielli and Reinhard F Werner)
  • Continuous Observation of Quantum Systems (Hans Maassen)
• ENTROPY:
  • Continuity of the Relative Entropy of Resource (Ludovico Lami and Maksim Shirokov)
  • Rényi–Holevo Inequality from α-z-Rényi Relative Entropies (Diego G Bussandri, Grzegorz Rajchel-Mieldzioć, Pedro W Lamberti, and Karol Życzkowski)
• GAUSSIANS AND PHASE SPACE SYSTEMS:
  • Pretty Good Measurement for Bosonic Gaussian Ensembles (Hemant K Mishra, Ludovico Lami, Prabha Mandayam, and Mark M Wilde)
  • Interpreting Symplectic Linear Transformations in a Two-Qubit Phase Space (William K Wootters)
  • Low-Ground/High-Ground Capacity Regions Analysis for Gaussian Bosonic Channels (Farzad Kianvash, Marco Fanizza, and Vittorio Giovannetti)

Readership: Physics researchers, faculty, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, Mathematicians with an interest in mathematical physics.