Entanglement-assisted classical information capacity of the amplitude damping channel

In this paper, we calculate the entanglement-assisted classical information capacity of the amplitude damping channel and compare it with the particular mutual information which is considered as the entanglement-assisted classical information capacity of this channel in Ref. 6. It is shown that the difference between them is very small. In addition, we point out that using partial symmetry and concavity of mutual information derived from the dense coding scheme, one can simplify the calculation of entanglement-assisted classical information capacities for non-unitary-covariant quantum noisy channels.