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View SchemaReversible transformations from pure to mixed states, and the unique measure of information
| Authors | Michal Horodecki, Pawel Horodecki, Jonathan Oppenheim |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0212019 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0212019 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.67.062104 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A 67 062104 (2003) |
Abstract
Transformations from pure to mixed states are usually associated with information loss and irreversibility. Here, a protocol is demonstrated allowing one to make these transformations reversible. The pure states are diluted with a random noise source. Using this protocol one can study optimal transformations between states, and from this derive the unique measure of information. This is compared to irreversible transformations where one does not have access to noise. The ideas presented here shed some light on attempts to understand entanglement manipulations and the inevitable irreversibility encountered there where one finds that mixed states can contain "bound entanglement".
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