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The capacity of the noisy quantum channel

Seth Lloyd

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9604015

Abstract

An upper limit is given to the amount of quantum information that can be transmitted reliably down a noisy, decoherent quantum channel. A class of quantum error-correcting codes is presented that allow the information transmitted to attain this limit. The result is the quantum analog of Shannon's bound and code for the noisy classical channel.

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