Towards a geometrical interpretation of quantum information compression

Details Towards a geometrical interpretation of quantum information compression Towards a geometrical interpretation of quantum information compression

2003-09-24

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0309177v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

11 pages, latex2e

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.69.032304

Let S be the von Neumann entropy of a finite ensemble E of pure quantum states. We show that S may be naturally viewed as a function of a set of geometrical volumes in Hilbert space defined by the states and that S is monotonically increasing in each of these variables. Since S is the Schumacher compression limit of E, this monotonicity property suggests a geometrical interpretation of the quantum redundancy involved in the compression process. It provides clarification of previous work in which it was shown that S may be increased while increasing the overlap of each pair of states in the ensemble. As a byproduct, our mathematical techniques also provide a new interpretation of the subentropy of E.

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