Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2008-02-05
Physics
Quantum Physics
M.Sc thesis submitted to the Physics department of McGill University, 107 pages, 14 figures
Scientific paper
A single quantum state can be shared by many distant parties. In this thesis, we try to characterize the information contents of such distributed states by defining the multiparty information and the multiparty squashed entanglement, two steps toward a general theory of multiparty quantum information. As a further step in that direction, we partially solve the multiparty distributed compression problem where multiple parties use quantum communication to faithfully transfer their shares of a state to a common receiver. We build a protocol for multiparty distributed compression based on the fully quantum Slepian-Wolf protocol and prove both inner and outer bounds on the achievable rate region. We relate our findings to previous results in information theory and discuss some possible applications.
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