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Concepts of a quantum information theory of many letters

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v3

Abstract

A theoretical framework is presented allowing the treatment of quantum messages with components of variable length. To this aim a many-letter space, similiar to the Fock space, is constructed, generalizing the standard quantum information theory of block messages of fixed length. In the many-letter space a length operator can be defined measuring the length of a quantum message, whose eigenspaces are the block Hilbert spaces used in the standard theory.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0009052,
  title  = {Concepts of a quantum information theory of many letters},
  author = {Kim J. Bostroem},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0009052},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

9 pages, revtex, no figures. Version 2.1 beta. The original paper has been splitted into two pieces. This is the first part