Entanglement-of-formation potentials for feedback-assisted classical communication and randomness distillation

Abstract:We develop entanglement-of-formation potentials for feedback-assisted classical communication and one-way randomness distillation. For a finite-dimensional quantum channel without initial shared entanglement, an exact amortization theorem bounds the increase of message information plus entanglement remaining across the communicating laboratories. This proves a classical-feedback capacity bound using a mixed-convex-roof expression previously studied by Winter and Yang in the context of potential capacities. We determine the capacity of flagged mixtures of noiseless and entanglement-breaking channels, improve a published depolarizing-channel converse, and evaluate the new bound exactly for the amplitude damping channel. A state analogue gives a finite-blocklength upper bound on the net shared randomness obtainable with one-way classical communication. Amplitude-damping Choi states provide exact benchmarks, while a full-rank generalized amplitude-damping Choi state demonstrates a useful improvement where we do not evaluate the operational rate exactly. We also distinguish one-way from two-way randomness distillation: a two-round weak-measurement protocol strictly exceeds the exact one-way rate of every nontrivial qubit isotropic state. The protocol preserves quantum side information during its first decoding and extracts additional randomness in the reverse direction. This shows why the one-way state potential is not a general two-way converse. Together, these results establish a common entanglement-based approach to sharper communication and randomness bounds, while revealing how retained quantum correlations enable two-way distillation to surpass one-way limits.

Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Information Theory (cs.IT)

arXiv:2610.04831 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2610.04831v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

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