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Information capacities of quantum measurement channels
We study the relation between the unassisted and entanglement-assisted classical capacities $C,C_{ea}$ of entanglement-breaking channels. We argue that the gain of entanglement assistance $C_{ea}/C>1$ generically for measurement channels with \emph{unsharp} observables; in particular for the measurements with pure posterior states the information loss in the entanglement-assisted protocol is zero, resulting in arbitrarily large gain for very noisy or weak signal channels. This is illustrated by examples of continuous observables corresponding to state tomography in finite dimensions and heterodyne measurement. On the contrary, state preparations are characterized by the property of having \emph{no gain} of entanglement assistance, $C_{ea}/C=1$.