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On states, channels and purification

A. S. Holevo

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0204077

Abstract

In this note we introduce purification for a pair (ρ,Φ), where ρ is a quantum state and Φ is a channel, which allows in particular a natural extension of the properties of related information quantities (such as mutual and coherent informations) to the channels with arbitrary input and output spaces.

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