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Source Compression with a Quantum Helper

Quantum Physics 2017-01-12 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

We study classical source coding with quantum side-information where the quantum side-information is observed by a helper and sent to the decoder via a classical channel. We derive a single-letter characterization of the achievable rate region for this problem. The direct part of our result is proved via the measurement compression theory by Winter. Our result reveals that a helper's scheme that separately conducts a measurement and a compression is suboptimal, and the measurement compression is fundamentally needed to achieve the optimal rate region.

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@article{arxiv.1501.04366,
  title  = {Source Compression with a Quantum Helper},
  author = {Min-Hsiu Hsieh and Shun Watanabe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.04366},
  year   = {2017}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures. Version submitted to ISIT 2015

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