English

Information capacity of quantum observable

Quantum Physics 2012-04-24 v3

Abstract

In this paper we consider the classical capacities of quantum-classical channels corresponding to measurement of observables. Special attention is paid to the case of continuous observables. We give the formulas for unassisted and entanglement-assisted classical capacities C,CeaC,C_{ea} and consider some explicitly solvable cases which give simple examples of entanglement-breaking channels with C<Cea.C<C_{ea}. We also elaborate on the ensemble-observable duality to show that CeaC_{ea} for the measurement channel is related to the χ\chi-quantity for the dual ensemble in the same way as CC is related to the accessible information. This provides both accessible information and the χ\chi-quantity for the quantum ensembles dual to our examples.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1103.2615,
  title  = {Information capacity of quantum observable},
  author = {A. S. Holevo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.2615},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

13 pages. New section and references are added concerning the ensemble-observable duality

R2 v1 2026-06-21T17:39:03.852Z