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Data compression limit for an information source of interacting qubits

Quantum Physics 2007-07-13 v2 Information Theory Mathematical Physics math.IT math.MP

Abstract

A system of interacting qubits can be viewed as a non-i.i.d quantum information source. A possible model of such a source is provided by a quantum spin system, in which spin-1/2 particles located at sites of a lattice interact with each other. We establish the limit for the compression of information from such a source and show that asymptotically it is given by the von Neumann entropy rate. Our result can be viewed as a quantum analog of Shannon's noiseless coding theorem for a class of non - i.i.d. quantum information sources.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0207069,
  title  = {Data compression limit for an information source of interacting qubits},
  author = {Nilanjana Datta and Yuri Suhov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0207069},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

22 pages, LaTex file ; Theorem 2 modified