Universal quantum information compression and degrees of prior knowledge

dc.creatorJozsa, Richard
dc.creatorPresnell, Stuart
dc.date2002-10-29
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dc.descriptionWe describe a universal information compression scheme that compresses any pure quantum i.i.d. source asymptotically to its von Neumann entropy, with no prior knowledge of the structure of the source. We introduce a diagonalisation procedure that enables any classical compression algorithm to be utilised in a quantum context. Our scheme is then based on the corresponding quantum translation of the classical Lempel-Ziv algorithm. Our methods lead to a conceptually simple way of estimating the entropy of a source in terms of the measurement of an associated length parameter while maintaining high fidelity for long blocks. As a by-product we also estimate the eigenbasis of the source. Since our scheme is based on the Lempel-Ziv method, it can be applied also to target sequences that are not i.i.d.
dc.description17 pages, no figures. A preliminary version of this work was presented at EQIS '02, Tokyo, September 2002
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0210196
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0210196
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/90607
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleUniversal quantum information compression and degrees of prior knowledge
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