Reversible transformations from pure to mixed states, and the unique measure of information

Details Reversible transformations from pure to mixed states, and the unique measure of information Reversible transformations from pure to mixed states, and the unique measure of information

2002-12-03

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0212019v2

Phys. Rev. A 67 062104 (2003)

Physics

Quantum Physics

10 pages, no figures, revtex4, table added, to appear in Phys. Rev. A

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.67.062104

Transformations from pure to mixed states are usually associated with information loss and irreversibility. Here, a protocol is demonstrated allowing one to make these transformations reversible. The pure states are diluted with a random noise source. Using this protocol one can study optimal transformations between states, and from this derive the unique measure of information. This is compared to irreversible transformations where one does not have access to noise. The ideas presented here shed some light on attempts to understand entanglement manipulations and the inevitable irreversibility encountered there where one finds that mixed states can contain "bound entanglement".

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