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An entropic analysis of approximate quantum error correction

Quantum Physics 2015-06-16 v2

Abstract

The concept of entropy and the correct application of the Second Law of thermodynamics are essential in order to understand the reason why quantum error correction is thermodynamically possible and no violation of the Second Law occurs during its execution. We report in this work our first steps towards an entropic analysis extended to approximate quantum error correction (QEC). Special emphasis is devoted to the link among quantum state discrimination (QSD), quantum information gain, and quantum error correction in both the exact and approximate QEC scenarios.

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@article{arxiv.1308.4579,
  title  = {An entropic analysis of approximate quantum error correction},
  author = {Carlo Cafaro and Peter van Loock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.4579},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

14 pages, no figures, improved v2. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:quant-ph/9903049 by other authors

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