Classical capacity of the lossy bosonic channel: the exact solution
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capacitybosonicchannelclassicallossyachievescalculatedcoherent-state
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The classical capacity of the lossy bosonic channel is calculated exactly. It is shown that its Holevo information is not superadditive, and that a coherent-state encoding achieves capacity. The capacity of far-field, free-space optical communications is given as an example.
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