A bound on the mutual information, and properties of entropy reduction, for quantum channels with inefficient measurements

DOI10.1063/1.2158433zbMATH Open1111.81034arXivquant-ph/0412006OpenAlexW3101847168MaRDI QIDQ3438726FDOQ3438726

Authors: Kurt Jacobs 

Publication date: 16 May 2007

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Holevo bound is a bound on the mutual information for a given quantum encoding. In 1996 Schumacher, Westmoreland and Wootters [Schumacher, Westmoreland and Wootters, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 3452 (1996)] derived a bound which reduces to the Holevo bound for complete measurements, but which is tighter for incomplete measurements. The most general quantum operations may be both incomplete and inefficient. Here we show that the bound derived by SWW can be further extended to obtain one which is yet again tighter for inefficient measurements. This allows us in addition to obtain a generalization of a bound derived by Hall, and to show that the average reduction in the von Neumann entropy during a quantum operation is concave in the initial state, for all quantum operations. This is a quantum version of the concavity of the mutual information. We also show that both this average entropy reduction, and the mutual information for pure state ensembles, are Schur-concave for unitarily covariant measurements; that is, for these measurements, information gain increases with initial uncertainty.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412006

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

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