Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2005-05-19
Physics
Quantum Physics
5 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
Two quantum information processing protocols are said to be dual under resource reversal if the resources consumed (generated) in one protocol are generated (consumed) in the other. Previously known examples include the duality between entanglement concentration and dilution, and the duality between coherent versions of teleportation and super-dense coding. A quantum feedback channel is an isometry from a system belonging to Alice to a system shared between Alice and Bob. We show that such a resource may be reversibly decomposed into a perfect quantum channel and pure entanglement, generalizing both of the above examples. The dual protocols responsible for this decomposition are the ``feedback father'' (FF) protocol and the ``fully quantum reverse Shannon'' (FQRS) protocol. Moreover, the ``fully quantum Slepian-Wolf'' protocol (FQSW), a generalization of the recently discovered ``quantum state merging'', is related to FF by source-channel duality, and to FQRS by time reversal duality, thus forming a triangle of dualities. The source-channel duality is identified as the origin of the previously poorly understood ``mother-father'' duality. Due to a symmetry breaking, the dualities extend only partially to classical information theory.
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