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Quantum information is incompressible without errors

Masato Koashi, Nobuyuki Imoto

abstract: A classical random variable can be faithfully compressed into a sequence of bits with its expected length lies within one bit of Shannon entropy. We generalize this variable-length and faithful scenario to the general quantum source producing mixed states $\rho_i$ with probability $p_i$. In contrast to the classical case, the optimal compression rate in the limit of large block length differs from the one in the fixed-length and asymptotically faithful scenario. The amount of this gap is interpreted as the genuinely quantum part being incompressible in the former scenario.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0203045
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
5 pages, no figures
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.097904
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0203045
created:
2002-03-11

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