On the reversible extraction of classical information from a quantum source

dc.creatorBarnum, Howard
dc.creatorHayden, Patrick
dc.creatorJozsa, Richard
dc.creatorWinter, Andreas
dc.date2000-11-16
dc.date2003-07-29
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:01:12Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T06:01:12Z
dc.descriptionConsider a source E of pure quantum states with von Neumann entropy S. By the quantum source coding theorem, arbitrarily long strings of signals may be encoded asymptotically into S qubits/signal (the Schumacher limit) in such a way that entire strings may be recovered with arbitrarily high fidelity. Suppose that classical storage is free while quantum storage is expensive and suppose that the states of E do not fall into two or more orthogonal subspaces. We show that if E can be compressed with arbitrarily high fidelity into A qubits/signal plus any amount of auxiliary classical storage then A must still be at least as large as the Schumacher limit S of E. Thus no part of the quantum information content of E can be faithfully replaced by classical information. If the states do fall into orthogonal subspaces then A may be less than S, but only by an amount not exceeding the amount of classical information specifying the subspace for a signal from the source.
dc.description22 pages, Latex2e, journal version
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0011072
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0011072
dc.identifierProc. Roy. Soc. (Lond.) A (2001), vol 457, p2019-2039
dc.identifierdoi:10.1098/rspa.2001.0816
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/89184
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleOn the reversible extraction of classical information from a quantum source
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