TY - JOUR T1 - Two-way quantum communication channels JF - International Journal of Quantum Information Y1 - 2006 A1 - Andrew M. Childs A1 - Debbie W. Leung A1 - Hoi-Kwong Lo AB - We consider communication between two parties using a bipartite quantum operation, which constitutes the most general quantum mechanical model of two-party communication. We primarily focus on the simultaneous forward and backward communication of classical messages. For the case in which the two parties share unlimited prior entanglement, we give inner and outer bounds on the achievable rate region that generalize classical results due to Shannon. In particular, using a protocol of Bennett, Harrow, Leung, and Smolin, we give a one-shot expression in terms of the Holevo information for the entanglement-assisted one-way capacity of a two-way quantum channel. As applications, we rederive two known additivity results for one-way channel capacities: the entanglement-assisted capacity of a general one-way channel, and the unassisted capacity of an entanglement-breaking one-way channel. VL - 04 U4 - 63 - 83 UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0506039v1 CP - 01 J1 - Int. J. Quanum Inform. U5 - 10.1142/S0219749906001621 ER -