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Optimal compression for identically prepared qubit states

Quantum Physics 2016-12-02 v3 Information Theory Mathematical Physics math.IT math.MP

Abstract

We establish the ultimate limits to the compression of sequences of identically prepared qubits. The limits are determined by Holevo's information quantity and are attained through use of the optimal universal cloning machine, which finds here a novel application to quantum Shannon theory.

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@article{arxiv.1606.02893,
  title  = {Optimal compression for identically prepared qubit states},
  author = {Yuxiang Yang and Giulio Chiribella and Masahito Hayashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.02893},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

5+ 12 pages, 3 figures. Published version.A few typos corrected

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