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Accessible information in quantum measurement

N. J. Cerf, C. Adami

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9611032

Abstract

The amount of information that can be accessed via measurement of a quantum system prepared in different states is limited by the Kholevo bound. We present a simple proof of this theorem and its extension to sequential measurements based on the properties of quantum conditional and mutual entropies. The proof relies on a minimal physical model of the measurement which does not assume environmental decoherence, and has an intuitive diagrammatic representation.

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