A probabilistic and information theoretic interpretation of quantum evolutions

Details A probabilistic and information theoretic interpretation of quantum evolutions A probabilistic and information theoretic interpretation of quantum evolutions

2003-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312149v1

Phys. Rev. A. 70 022312 (2004)

Physics

Quantum Physics

9 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.70.022312

In quantum mechanics, outcomes of measurements on a state have a probabilistic interpretation while the evolution of the state is treated deterministically. Here we show that one can also treat the evolution as being probabilistic in nature and one can measure `which unitary' happened. Likewise, one can give an information-theoretic interpretation to evolutions by defining the entropy of a completely positive map. This entropy gives the rate at which the informational content of the evolution can be compressed. One cannot compress this information and still have the evolution act on an unknown state, but we demonstrate a general scheme to do so probabilistically. This allows one to generalize super-dense coding to the sending of quantum information. One can also define the ``interaction-entanglement'' of a unitary, and concentrate this entanglement.

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