On the Distributed Compression of Quantum Information

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DOI10.1109/TIT.2006.881734zbMATH Open1320.94038arXivquant-ph/0403042OpenAlexW2120676253WikidataQ57522298 ScholiaQ57522298MaRDI QIDQ3548017FDOQ3548017


Authors: Charlene Ahn, Andrew C. Doherty, Patrick Hayden, Andreas Winter Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 21 December 2008

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the problem of distributed compression for correlated quantum sources. The classical version of this problem was solved by Slepian and Wolf, who showed that distributed compression could take full advantage of redundancy in the local sources created by the presence of correlations. We show that, in general, this is not the case for quantum sources by proving a lower bound on the rate sum for irreducible sources of product states which is stronger than the one given by a naive application of Slepian-Wolf. Nonetheless, strategies taking advantage of correlation do exist for some special classes of quantum sources. For example, Devetak and Winter demonstrated the existence of such a strategy when one of the sources is classical. Here we find optimal non-trivial strategies for a different extreme, sources of Bell states. In addition, we illustrate how distributed compression is connected to other problems in quantum information theory, including information-disturbance questions, entanglement distillation and quantum error correction.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0403042




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