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Quantum data processing and error correction

Benjamin Schumacher, M. A. Nielsen

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9604022

Abstract

This paper investigates properties of noisy quantum information channels. We define a new quantity called coherent information which measures the amount of quantum information conveyed in the noisy channel. This quantity can never be increased by quantum information processing, and it yields a simple necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of perfect quantum error correction.

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