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Unlike classical information, quantum knowledge is restricted to the outcome of measurements of maximal observables corresponding to single contexts.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-19 Karl Svozil

Measurement is integral to quantum information processing and communication; it is how information encoded in the state of a system is transformed into classical signals for further use. In quantum optics, measurements are typically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-13 Daniel K. L. Oi , Vaclav Potocek , John Jeffers

The transmission of classical information over a classical channel gave rise to the classical capacity theorem with the optimal rate in terms of the classical mutual information. Despite classical information being a subset of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Zahra Baghali Khanian

Weak measurements may result in extra quantity of quantumness of correlations compared with standard projective measurement on a bipartite quantum state. We show that the quantumness of correlations by weak measurements can be consumed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Lin-Ping Huai , Bo Li , Shi-Xian Qu , Heng Fan

Thermodynamic entropy is not an entirely satisfactory measure of information of a quantum state. This entropy for an unknown pure state is zero, although repeated measurements on copies of such a pure state do communicate information. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Subhash Kak

We explore precision in a measurement process incorporating pure probe states, unitary dynamics and complete measurements via a simple formalism. The concept of `information complement' is introduced. It undermines measurement precision and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-17 Gabriel A. Durkin

It is widely known that `collapse of the wave function' on a quantum system A may be brought about by an interaction with another quantum system B. We will prove that this is not just a possible, but a necessary consequence of information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bas Janssens

In this paper we propose a general method to quantify how "quantum" a set of quantum states is. The idea is to gauge the quantumness of the set by the worst-case difficulty of transmitting the states through a purely classical communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher A. Fuchs , Masahide Sasaki

In this article a notion of information is presented which stresses the contextuality of quantum objects and their measurement. Mathematically this is reached by a quantification of the quantum mechanical surplus knowledge which has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gesche Pospiech

To maximize average information gain for a classical measurement, all outcomes of an observation must be equally likely. The condition of equally likely outcomes may be enforced in quantum theory by ensuring that one's state $\rho$ is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 Joshua Combes , Howard M. Wiseman

A clock is, from an information-theoretic perspective, a system that emits information about time. One may therefore ask whether the theory of information imposes any constraints on the maximum precision of clocks. Here we show a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-28 Mischa P. Woods , Ralph Silva , Gilles Pütz , Sandra Stupar , Renato Renner

The amount of information transmissible through a communications channel is determined by the noise characteristics of the channel and by the quantities of available transmission resources. In classical information theory, the amount of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mikio Fujiwara , Masahiro Takeoka , Jun Mizuno , Masahide Sasaki

The optimal rate at which information can be sent through a quantum channel when the transmitted signal must simultaneously carry some minimum amount of energy is characterized. To do so, we introduce the quantum-classical analogue of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Bishal Kumar Das , Lav R. Varshney , Vaibhav Madhok

While a positive operator valued measure gives the probabilities in a quantum measurement, an instrument gives both the probabilities and the a posteriori states. By interpreting the instrument as a quantum channel and by using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Barchielli , Giancarlo Lupieri

The quantum capacity of thermal noise channel is studied. The extremal input state is obtained at the postulation that the coherent information is convex or concave at its vicinity. When the input energy tends to infinitive, it is verified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-yu Chen

The predictions that quantum theory makes about the outcomes of measurements are generally probabilistic. This has raised the question whether quantum theory can be considered complete, or whether there could exist alternative theories that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Roger Colbeck , Renato Renner

The mutual information has been successfully used as a measure of correlation strength between quantum systems, especially for bipartite systems. Here we examine the use of this measure for multipartite quantum systems. For system of qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Simon James Daniel Phoenix

Quantum mechanics is a cornerstone of our current understanding of nature and extremely successful in describing physics covering a huge range of scales. However, its interpretation remains controversial since the early days of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Zeng-Bing Chen

We consider probabilistic theories in which the most elementary system, a two-dimensional system, contains one bit of information. The bit is assumed to be contained in any complete set of mutually complementary measurements. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-10 Caslav Brukner , Anton Zeilinger

In quantum information theory it is generally accepted that quantum mutual information is an information-theoretic measure of total correlations of a bipartite quantum state. We argue that there exist quantum states for which quantum mutual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-16 Zbigniew Walczak